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| Born | February 4, 1872 Kilkis, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Died | May 4, 1903(1903-05-04) (aged 31) Banitsa, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Nationality | Macedonian |
| Organization(s) | leader of the Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees, (later SMORO, IMORO, IMRO) |
Georgi Nikolov Delchev (1872–1903) (Macedonian: Георги Николов Делчев, known as Gotse Delchev, also spelled Goce Delčev) was an important 19th century revolutionary figure in then Ottoman ruled Macedonia. He was one of the leaders of what is commonly known today as Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), a paramilitary organization active in the Ottoman territories in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. At his time the name of the organization was Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC), in 1902 changed to Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (SMARO).
Biography
Gotse Delchev was born on January 23 (February 4, new style), 1872 in Kilkis, Aegean Macedonia (now northern Greece), first boy, the third row of numerous family piece which had nine children. Delchev comes from a wealthy family relative. His father was Nicholas Delchev and his mother Sultana Nurdzhieva originated from a nearby village Murarci. In 1879 - 1880, Goce (George) Delchev begins to attend school in Kilkis, then finished high school in Thessaloniki gymnasium "Ss. Cyril and Methodius". He enrolled at the Military Academy in Sofia in the 1891st Later, as a cadet in military school in Sofia secretly attended socialist circles, and spreading socialist literature, which is excluded from school. Delchev became a teacher in Stip in 1894 where he met Dame Gruev, one of the founders of the organization. As a result of the close friendship between the two, Delchev joined the organization in 1895, soon becoming its leader. In the summer of 1896, held in Thessaloniki and the Macedonian Congress Odrin revolutionary forces. The congress attended by Goce Delchev. Goce Delchev and Gorce Petrov opolnomoshni to develop a constitution and law and constitution-made titled "Constitution of the Secret Macedonian-Odrin Revolutionary Organization." At the beginning of January 1898 year. Chetnik Institute is established, and Gotse Delchev was appointed chief of all bands in Macedonia.
During his frequent tours around the country working to create a healthy organizational network and solid bases, committees and Komita bands of the Organization. The goal is autonomy or complete liberation of Macedonia and the Odrin Ottoman slavery and the creation of an independent Macedonian state.
To avoid or at least neutralize the impact of Bulgarian court and his AGENTUR etc.. "Supreme Macedonian Committee", Goce, and emigrant agent, actively acting on their representatives to give up uncalled interference in internal affairs of the revolutionary organization, which represents the sole legitimate representative of the Macedonian liberation movement, and act only as an auxiliary force Material assistance to the Organization. Their removal, Goce led uncompromising struggle against the interference of the Bulgarian government and the leaders of Macedonian committees.Most remarkable echoes of his struggle to preserve the unity of external interference had opened his reply the President of the Supreme Committee, General Nikolaev, who warned him that,while his shoulder supports the gun he will not allow the presence of Bulgarian officers in Macedonia. The same goal was his directive in 1902 to ban the entry of bands from Bulgaria, and an official warning to Bulgaria for Macedonia do not think, but to keep Bulgaria, because the Macedonians will keep Macedonia.
The regular counseling in December 1902, Goce Delchev, Dame Gruev, Jane Sandanski and other leaders of the organization decide not to lift frontal uprising in Macedonia, but to run a guerrilla war. Objective as stated Goce should be: "do we beat Turkey but it did not 'beat us."
In January, 1903. Goce Delchev expresses itself as the first openly against lifting the uprising in Macedonia that year, known then as "Ilinden Uprising" as an early step and unprepared.
On the evening of May 2, 1903, Goce Delchev arrived in the village. Banica, a small distance from Serres. To stay in Gotse Delchev Banica Turkish administration was informed by the unknown (s). At dawn on May 4, 1903 year Goce ordered to leave the house where they were located and to withdraw to save the village from oppression. During the day, on May 4, 1903 in fighting in the village of Banica out of Goce Delchev was hit in the left breast, fell on his gun, tried to rise and fell dead.
Goce's sacrifice,the work for freeing the people of Macedonia and Odrin,and creating an independent Macedonian state has adopted the halo of recognition and respect. His name became legend, woven into the consciousness of the Macedonian masses. His name has excited generations Macedonia, the Macedonian name by progressive forces fought in a completely new socio-political situation of the Macedonian people fight for national and social liberation.
His remains were first transferred to Bulgaria on October 11, 1946 be transferred to Skopje, in the church of St. Saviour. As himself said,that he wants his remains to be buried in the capital of INDEPENDENT MACEDONIA!
Memorials
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The tomb of Goce Delčev in the church Sv. Spas (Holy Savior) in Skopje, Macedonia
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Statues of Goce Delchev and Dame Gruev in Skopje, Macedonia.
See also
- ..."It appears to have originally been called the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Committee (BMORK — the'O'standing for Odrin or Adrianopole). In 1902 it changed its name to the Secret Macedonian Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organisation"... Who are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1850655340, p. 53.