Marko Lerinski

Voivode
Marko Lerinski
Марко Лерински
Marko Lerinski c. 1902
Born
Georgi Ivanov Gyurov
Георги Иванов Гюров

(1862-06-20)20 June 1862
Kotel, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Bulgaria)
Died13 June 1902(1902-06-13) (aged 39)
Patele, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Agios Panteleimonas, Greece)
Burial place
Sorovich (now Amyntaio, Greece)
Military career
AllegianceBulgaria Principality of Bulgaria
IMRO
Branch
 Bulgarian Army
Service years
1883-1900
Conflicts

Georgi Ivanov Gyurov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Гюров; 20 June 1862 – 13 June 1902), known under the alias Marko Lerinski (Bulgarian: Марко Лерински), was a Bulgarian military officer and revolutionary. He was one of Internal Macedonian–Adrianople Revolutionary Organization's most effective leaders in the Lerin (Florina) district.

Life

Georgi Ivanov Gyurov was born on 20 June 1862 in Kotel in Ottoman Rumelia (Northern Thrace), today a town in central eastern Bulgaria. In 1883, he joined the Principality of Bulgaria's armed forces. He took part in the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. For his bravery, he was awarded a medal and promoted. In 1895, he participated in Supreme Macedonian–Adrianople Committee, anti-Ottoman action as part of Stoyo Kostov's detachment, which involved an attack on Dospat. After the action, he returned to the army.

He served as a non-commissioned officer until he left the army in 1900. In 1901, he got in contact with Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionaries Gotse Delchev and Gyorche Petrov, who recruited him in IMARO. They dispatched him as a regional leader (voivode) for the Lerin region (today Florina, Greece), where he adopted the alias Marko Lerinski. Lerinski created a training center in the Lerin district in the 1900s, where he trained aspiring voivodes. Thanks to Lerinski's military training and his organizational abilities, his detachment became a school for voivodes and members of IMARO. According to fellow IMARO member and writer Hristo Silyanov, Marko Lerinski turned Lerin into "... a region of model in every respect. Enthustiastic activists, strict organization, a disciplined and, in the full sense of the words, propagandist and organizational detachment. That was all the work of Marko from Kotel."

Lerinski was the first person to suggest a common uprising in both Macedonia and the Adrianople Vilayet, an idea that would be put into practice with the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903. Lerinski died in a clash with Ottoman forces in Patele (Agios Panteleimonas, Florina, Greece) on 13 June 1902. He was buried in Sorovich.

References

  1. ↑ Duncan Perry (1988). The Politics of Terror: The Macedonian Liberation Movements, 1893-1903. Duke University Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780822308133.
  2. ↑ André Gerolymatos (2001). The Balkan Wars: Myth, Reality, and the Eternal Conflict. Stoddart. p. 192. ISBN 9780773732902.
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  4. 1 2 3 Vemund Aarbakke. Ethnic Rivalry and the Quest for Macedonia 1870–1913. pp. 125–126, 134.
  5. ↑ Keith Brown (2013). Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia. Indiana University Press. p. 228. ISBN 9780253008473.
  6. ↑ Nadine Lange-Akhund (1998). The Macedonian Question, 1893-1908, from Western Sources. East European Monographs. p. 95. ISBN 9780880333832.
  7. ↑ Jane K. Cowan, ed. (2000). Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference. Pluto Press. p. 72. ISBN 9780745315898.
  8. ↑ Силянов, Христо (1993). Освободителните борби на Македония ("Macedonia's struggles for liberation") (in Bulgarian). Vol. I. p. 133.
  9. ↑ Силянов, Христо (1993). Освободителните борби на Македония ("Macedonia's struggles for liberation") (in Bulgarian). Vol. I. p. 99.
  10. ↑ Lozanchev, Atastas (8 April 2016). "Анастас Лозанчев - Защо бях за въстание" [Anastas Lozanchev - Why I was supportive of an uprising]. Macedonian Scientific Institute (in Bulgarian).
  11. ↑ Dimitar Dimeski (1993). Aferite vo Bitolskiot vilaet, 1895-1903 (in Macedonian). Matica makedonska. p. 112.

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