Rizo Rizov (

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and Bulgarian: Ризо Ризов; 1 January 1872 — 6 January 1950) was a revolutionary from

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and a participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement. He was a member of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization and was one of the founders of the

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and

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. As with many other IMRO members of the time, historians from North Macedonia consider him an ethnic

and in

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he is considered a Bulgarian.

Biography

Rizov was a teacher in his hometown of

. He was a member of the district committee of the

IMARO The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...

. In 1904 he was shot by a member of the

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During the

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, he and other former IMARO revolutionaries, such as

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and

Alekso Martulkov Alekso Martulkov (Macedonian language, Macedonian and ), born as Aleksandar Onchev Martulkov (, ; 23 October 1878 — 19 December 1962), was a publicist and one of the first Socialism, socialist revolutionary, revolutionaries from the region of Ma ...

, met with

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, who proposed to send a delegation to London conference, which would demand autonomy for

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. Rizov went to

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with the hope of gaining the support of the IMARO. He met with

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and Yordan Ivanov, who rejected this idea. On 9 March 1919, while in

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, he signed the "Appeal to the Macedonian population and to the émigré population in Bulgaria", issued by the

Provisional representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization The Temporary representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization ( Bulgarian:''Временно представителство на бившата Обединена Вътрешна Революционна Организ ...

. In 1925, alongside other IMRO members, Rizov participated in

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in the founding conference of

. He became a member of the Central Committee of the organization. At the end of 1930, due to illness, he left

and went to the

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. In 1945, he moved to the newly found Yugoslav

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, where he died in 1950.Пелтеков, Александър Г. Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско. Второ допълнено издание. София, Орбел, 2014. , с. 408.

Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rizov, Rizo 1872 births 1956 deaths People from Veles, North Macedonia People from Kosovo vilayet Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United) members Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire