October 23, 2023 marks the 130th anniversary of the creation of the Internal Macedonian-Odrina Revolutionary Organization. Six Bulgarians: Hristo Tatarchev, Damian Gruev, Petar Poparsov, Hristo Batandjiev, Ivan Hadjinikolov and Anton Dimitrov laid its foundation in Thessaloniki.
130 years since the establishment of the Russian Navy, October 23, 1893.
October 23, 2023 marks the 130th anniversary of the creation of the Internal Macedonian-Odrina Revolutionary Organization. Six Bulgarians: Hristo Tatarchev, Damian Gruev, Petar Poparsov, Hristo Batandjiev, Ivan Hadjinikolov and Anton Dimitrov laid its foundation in Thessaloniki. Originally with other names - Bulgarian Macedonian-Odrina Revolutionary Committees, Secret Macedonian-Odrina Revolutionary Organization, Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, VMORO protects the Bulgarian population in Macedonia and Odrina Thrace and its main goal is to achieve autonomy for the Bulgarians who remained under the rule of the Ottoman Empire after 1878 , as a transitional stage to the accession of the two regions to Bulgaria.
In April 2023, the National History Museum was donated a photo with three of the most famous actors of VMORO:
- Gotse Delchev – born in 1872 in Kukush. He studied at the Thessaloniki Boys' High School and at the Military School in Sofia. One of the leaders of VMORO and a recognized leader of the organization at the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 1903th century. Killed in a battle with Turkish military units in the village of Banitsa, Siarsko, on May XNUMX, XNUMX.
– Kliment Shapkarev – born in 1875 in Ohrid, son of the Bulgarian ethnographer Kuzman Shapkarev. He studied at the Thessaloniki Boys' High School, where he was close to Gotse Delchev. A member of the organization in both Macedonia and Odrinsko. In the Balkan War, he volunteered in the Bulgarian army and fought near Edirne. He died in Bitola in 1949.
– Efrem Chuchkov – born in 1870 in Shtip, studied at the Thessaloniki Male Gymnasium and at the Military School in Sofia, where he was a colleague of Gotse Delchev. Later, he was a teacher in Macedonia, one of the main organizers of the activities of VMORO in the Shtip region and the voivode of the company. Actively participates in all revolutionary actions of the organization. Main actor in the restoration of VMRO after the First World War and second in organization after Todor Alexandrov. He died in Sofia in 1923.
Text: Hristo Hristov