Ilinden Uprising

Ilinden Uprising (Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising), Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee, Krucevo Republic, Strandzha Commune
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[@9_9876]

Don't forget Aromanian/Vlach participation, primordial for the uprising

[@radoslavpetkov]

Никога ,не сме забравили Власите,! Винаги ,добре дошли,!

[@radoslavpetkov]

Обичам ви Румъния!

[@БоянМихов-м9э]

Glory to the heroes of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising!

[@b.s.1929]

Thanks for posting this! This was the biggest uprising of Bulgarians in the Ottoman period, ever! I just read Dimitar Talev's 4 novels on the struggle for freedom of Macedonian Bulgarians! I highly recommend it, for anyone who likes to get acquainted with the conditions of late Ottoman Macedonia.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@yazovgaming]

Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initially aimed to gain autonomy for the Macedonia and Adrianople regions in the Ottoman Empire, however, it later became an agent serving Bulgarian interests in Balkan politics. IMRO modeled itself after the Internal Revolutionary Organization of Vasil Levski and accepted its motto "Freedom or Death" (Свобода или смърть) (Свобода или смърт). Starting in 1896, it fought the Ottomans using guerrilla tactics, and in this, they were successful, even establishing a state within a state in some regions, including their tax collectors. This effort escalated in 1903 into the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. The fighting involved about 15,000 IMRO irregulars and 40,000 Ottoman soldiers. After the uprising failed, the Ottomans destroyed some 100 villages. During the Balkan Wars and the First World War, the organization supported the Bulgarian army and joined Bulgarian war-time authorities when they temporarily took control over parts of Thrace and Macedonia. In this period, autonomism as a political tactic was abandoned, and annexationist positions were supported, aiming eventual incorporation of occupied areas into Bulgaria.

[@radoslavpetkov]

Твърдо ,заставам !

[@micahistory]

interesting, never heard of it

[@Maus_Indahaus]

There were dozens, if not hundreds of uprisings against Ottoman oppression over the course of several centuries

[@hoangkimviet8545]

I have never known about it. Thanks for giving information about it.

[@Maus_Indahaus]

There were dozens, if not hundreds of uprisings against Ottoman oppression over the course of several centuries

[@georgios_5342]

Really interesting to see the place names of the time. Upper Dzumaya and Upper Nevrokopi were later changed, right?

[@БоянМихов-м9э]

Yes, now those cities are named Blagoevgrad and Gotse Delchev respectively.

[@brianpeppard601]

I love these videos. Very well put together.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@YogoYoshi2936]

I've never heard of this uprising

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Me too

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

People that would become today's (North) Macedonians wanted independence, so they did this revolt. As seen in this video, they ultimately failed, but modern North Macedonian historiography considers it an important step in the awakening of their national consciousness

[@YogoYoshi2936]

@@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642 Thanks for telling + This happened before Mother Teresa was born in 1908, so technically, she had Ottoman Citizenship despite being a Roman Catholic Macedonian

[@Dragonman998]

It’s an Uprising in Ottoman Macedonia in 1903, it was the first self-proclaimed multi-ethnic secular Republic in the Balkans which lasted for only 12 days.

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Never heard abot this

[@romanicempirium3083]

I am interested in this, can someone explain to me the Bulgarian and Macedonian dispute over this uprising? Who's in the wrong and who's in the right.

[@ntonisa6636]

Yes the dispute is that Bulgarians say the SMARO/IMARO was Bulgarian whereas the other side says it was "Macedonian". In reality much of its propaganda at the time would pretend to be "above" all that and to represent all ethnicities including by favoring the use of the "ethnically neutral" term "Macedonian" in order to gain the sympathy, or at least the non-opposition of some of the local Greeks, Vlachs, Jews, Serbs, Albanians etc but hardly anyone fell for it, pretty much everyone regarded it as a Bulgarian nationalist front.

[@MacedonianFromOhrid7400]

​@@ntonisa6636 no they were macedonians who were fighting for macedonia not bulgaria

[@ntonisa6636]

@@MacedonianFromOhrid7400 well, according to this view why did IMARO also include Adrianople in its title ?

[@jivkoyanchev1998]

Well according to historiography it was a Bulgarian revolt against ottoman rule in the region, with the participation of local Vlachs, Greeks, Albanians and others. Now according to Macedonian historians it was an ethnic Macedonian revolt, which technically overlaps with the period in which the idea of a separate Macedonian identity was born - late XIX and early XX century, but if we look at historical sources this idea was only supported by a handful of figures at the time and the local population largely viewed itself as Bulgarian, Vlach, Albanian or Greek.

[@vasil.kamdzhalov]

Modern North Macedonian historiography ( and population that learned in such way the history ) wish to present IMARO/SMARO as an example of macedonian people fighting for their own freedom and independence. The conflict over the event in Bulgaria and NM is just for the origin and the exact reason behind the organisation. IMARO is predecessor of VMRO, a very famous rebel organisation with history for both nations. So it comes down to proof of the claims and mindset of people from both countries. What we know is that officially is bulgarian organisation, not that it wished to be, the goal was to include many ethnicities of the region of Macedonia and Lule Burgas/Adrianopole in the smaller picture but from its founding the majority of people who led it and made any plans in the organisation were bulgarians and everyone on local level considered it as such and didnt wish to join, only vlachs did as they didnt really have any claims or hopes to join neighbouring countries other that Bulgaria or just didnt care as long as they arent in Ottoman control. Other mistake is including Adrianopole region were if there was to be an uprising it would have been mainly bulgarians as there were barely any greeks and it just felt more as bulgarian organisation. The uprising lacked support of albanians, greeks and serbs and there is claims Russia informed the Ottomans about the coming uprising after other reasons made Bulgaria and Russia cut diplomatic ties and Russia from then to today supports closer Serbia than Bulgaria. The uprising was the best prepared of any former but when you are aware of it coming the Ottomans could crush it easily. As a result of all those smaller facts and even the name of the organisation including the Adrianopole region, it cant be presented as macedonian, it can be part of their history but they should change their opinion and not be scared to share something from their past that has no name or idea that macedonian slavs would be a thing as it comes later. If it was to the power of North Macedonians to write the official history of the world, they would say they are the same people that came from Alexander the Great and have always been macedonians, that is the broken mindset they have.

[@cleon_cleon]

Interesting. Thanks.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@radoslavpetkov]

Честит ,ден на това,което се казва Съединение!

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice video.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@based4560]

Could you do languages of South Asia

[@ignotumperignotius630]

Quite cool

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@andrefarfan4372]

@@CostasMelas yes

[@SvetskiMir-kh2sq]

The uprising that created the idea of seperate Macedonian nation and later own inspired ASNOM to launch anti fascist resistance against the Bulgarians during world war 2

[@SKITNICA95]

Against bulgarian fascists.

[@b.s.1929]

you guys like being delusional?

[@domca4617]

Imagine that you are so desperate that you have no history that you are trying to steal Bulgarian history.

[@svetliofficial]

Delulu, the idea of separate macedonian nation is a serbian communist idea!*

[@leonardo_fratila]

Keep going genius❤

[@Rabid_Nationalist]

Finaly some mkd history!

[@georgesakopoulos8110]

You mean SLAVIC HISTORY

[@Rabid_Nationalist]

@@georgesakopoulos8110 u implying poles fought here? Yeah no.

[@georgesakopoulos8110]

@@Rabid_Nationalist didn't understand, so messy message

[@TheHunterOfYharnam]

​@@Rabid_Nationalist not poles, just bulgarians

[@michaelstodovski2219]

​@@TheHunterOfYharnam Wrong, they fought for an *Independent Macedonia*

[@AlexAhmedov]

Bulgarian uprising

[@tavishnundoo6002]

Hallo

[@burimobertinca581]

I Linden,it has the Albanian meaning,= ilinden= is Born,

[@romanicempirium3083]

What does that have to do with this?

[@burimobertinca581]

@@romanicempirium3083 It is only a sentence of the Albanian language, and it means Albanian, not Slavic or any other Occupying language.

[@pavii5263]

​@@burimobertinca581 so the uprising is Albanian?

[@gnas1897]

😂

[@hamzaalmdghri8741]

First

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha: *NO*

[@yazovgaming]

Tsar Ferdinand in The First Balkan War: *YES*

[@wankawanka3053]

Greek macedonians had revolted way more than the slavs 😂

[@9_9876]

Nope

[@9_9876]

@MapNas what is a Romanians interest in Macedonia

[@southepirote7676]

Aren't Greeks genetically slavs? 😂

[@yazovgaming]

@@southepirote7676 Albanians are certainly Genetically Slavic,Hellenic, Latin and Turkic 😅

[@southepirote7676]

@@yazovgaming Actually other way around, Greeks are very diverse and are indeed genetically a mix of Albanians, Turks, Italians and Slavs.

[@nikostombris5505]

Fun fact Greek Guerilla troops helped the ottomans quell the revolt The Greek government provided full support for the Ottomans in crushing the Slavic revolution.

[@CostasMelas]

At this stage, Slav guerillas procured armaments from Greece

[@yazovgaming]

Your source?