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'''Gjorche Petrov''' ({{lang-bg|Гьорче Петров}}, {{lang-mk|Ѓорче Петров}}; ]/] in ], present day ] - ] ] in ], ]) was a ] freedom fighter and one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement (], BMARC before 1902). He is considered ] in the ]. | ||
| Born in the village of ], he studied at the secondary school for boys in ], Bulgaria. Then he worked as a teacher in various towns of ]. He took part in the revolutionary campaign in Macedonia as well as in the Thessaloniki Congress of the ] (BMARC) in ]. He was among the authors of the organization's new charter and rules, which he co-wrote with ]. | Born in the village of ], he studied at the secondary school for boys in ], Bulgaria. Then he worked as a teacher in various towns of ]. He took part in the revolutionary campaign in Macedonia as well as in the Thessaloniki Congress of the ] (BMARC) in ]. He was among the authors of the organization's new charter and rules, which he co-wrote with ]. | ||
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Gjorche Petrov (Template:Lang-bg, Template:Lang-mk; 1864/1865 in Varosh, present day Republic of Macedonia - June 28 1921 in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Macedonian freedom fighter and one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement (IMARO, BMARC before 1902). He is considered Bulgarian in the Republic of Bulgaria.
Born in the village of Varosh, he studied at the secondary school for boys in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Then he worked as a teacher in various towns of Macedonia. He took part in the revolutionary campaign in Macedonia as well as in the Thessaloniki Congress of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC) in 1896. He was among the authors of the organization's new charter and rules, which he co-wrote with Goce Delchev.
Gjorche was the representative of the Foreign Committee of the BMARC/IMARO in Sofia in 1897-1901. He did not approve of the untimely outbreak of the Ilinden Uprising in 1903, but he participated in the fighting leading with a large cheta. After the unsuccessful uprising Petrov continued his participation in IMARO.
Petrov was again included in the Emigrant representation in Sofia in 1905-1908. After the Young Turks Revolution of 1908, Petrov together with writer Anton Strashimirov issued "Kulturno Edinstvo" magazine ("Cultural Unity"), published in Thessaloniki (Solun).
He was President of the Regular Regional Committee in Bitola for some time during the First World War while IMARO had disbanded, and afterwards became mayor of Drama. At the end of the war he was one of the initiators of the formation of a Provisional Government of the United former IMRO, and this government set the task of defending the positions of the Bulgarians in Macedonia at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920). He was also Chief of the Refugees Settlement Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He kept close ties with Aleksandar Dimitrov and some other prominent Agrarian leaders, thus incurring IMARO leaders' hatred upon himself. He was eventually killed by them in June 1921 in Sofia.
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