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Marko Lerinski

Bulgarian revolutionary (1862–1902)

Summary

Bulgarian revolutionary (1862–1902)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Voivode
name	Marko Lerinski
native_name	Марко Лерински
image	Marko Lerinski.jpg
caption	Marko Lerinski c. 1902
birth_date	20 June 1862
death_date	13 June 1902
birth_place	Kotel, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Bulgaria)
death_place	Patele, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Agios Panteleimonas, Greece)
placeofburial	Amyntaio, Greece
nickname	Heroic Georgi
Георги Геройски
birth_name	Georgi Ivanov Gyurov
Георги Иванов Гюров
allegiance	Bulgaria Principality of Bulgaria
Flag of the IMRO.svg IMRO
branch	[[File:Bulgaria war flag.png	20px]] Bulgarian Army
serviceyears	1883-1902
battles

Георги Геройски Георги Иванов Гюров Flag of the IMRO.svg IMRO

Serbo-Bulgarian War
Macedonian Struggle
- Action of 1895

Marko Lerinski (; 20 June 1862 – 13 June 1902) was the nickname of Georgi Ivanov Gyurov (Георги Иванов Гюров), also known as Georgi Geroyski, a Bulgarian military expert and revolutionary. A prominent member of the Internal Macedonian–Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), Lerinski was the first person to propose a common anti-Ottoman uprising in Macedonia and Thrace.

Life

Gyurov was born 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; his comrades even nicknamed him Geroyski (Геройски), "heroic". In 1895, he left the Bulgarian Army to join the Supreme Macedonian–Adrianople Committee and take part in its 1895 organized anti-Ottoman action, which involved the burning of Dospat. After the action's failure, he returned to the army as a non-commissioned officer.

In 1900, 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 his nickname comes from. Other IMARO voivodes from the Principality of Bulgaria, such as Hristo Chernopeev, were also recruited at the time. Thanks to Lerinski's military training and his organizational abilities, his armed detachment became what was essentially a school for voivodes and members for the entire 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."

Marko 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. However, he did not live to witness the uprising. After his detachment's location was reported to the Ottoman authorities, Lerinski died in a battle with Ottoman forces near Patele (Agios Panteleimonas, Florina) on 13 June 1902 and was buried in Sorovich.

References

Sources

References

Силянов, Христо. (1993). "Освободителните борби на Македония ("Macedonia's struggles for liberation")".
Силянов, Христо. (1993). "Освободителните борби на Македония ("Macedonia's struggles for liberation")".
Лозанчев, Атанас. (2005-07-28). "Защо бях за въстание ("Why I was supportive of an uprising")". ВМРО-БНД.

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