Battle of Sliva

Battle of Sliva
	Part of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
	; The monument to the Battle of Sliva, Kruševo.
Location	Kruševo Republic (now Republic of North Macedonia)
Result	Ottoman Victory and subsequent collapse of the Kruševo Republic
Belligerents
Kruševo Republic IMRO;	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
	Todor Hristov
Casualties and losses
Unknown dead and wounded; Some taken prisoner	Unknown

The Battle of Sliva occurred in an area known as Sliva in the city of Kruševo, in Ottoman Macedonia on the August 12, 1903. It was an important episode of Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising which occurred 10 days after the Kruševo Republic was proclaimed back on August 2, 1903, and eventually lead to the fall of the Republic and to the suppression of the uprising.^[1]^[2]

The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation was unorganised for this battle. Many 16- and 17-year-old men were also involved in this battle even though men were drafted at the age of 18 to join the army. This battle happened above a mountain with a height of 1,357 metres (4,452 ft) above sea level that was densely forested and was only a few kilometres from a popular area known as Meckin Kamen.

The battle saw the Ottoman Army up against the Kruševo Republic and the IMRO. The IMRO had a force of 500 to 600 revolutionaries commanded by Todor Hristov, while the Ottoman Army had a total of 3,000 to 3,100 soldiers.

The Ottoman Army army saw a victory and had captured some of the Bulgarian rebels.^[3]

References[]

^ Brown, Keith (2003). The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation. Princeton University Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 9780691099958.
^ "Битката кај "Слива"" (in Macedonian). Македонска нација. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ Marinov, Tchavdar (2013). "Famous Macedonia, the Land of Alexander: Macedonian identity at the crossroads of Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian nationalism". In Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (eds.). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. Brill. pp. 273–330. ISBN 9789004250765. The "Adrianopolitan" part of the organization's name indicates that its agenda concerned not only Macedonia but also Thrace — a region whose Bulgarian population is by no means claimed by Macedonian nationalists today. In fact, as the organization's initial name ("Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees") shows, it had a Bulgarian national character: the revolutionary leaders were quite often teachers from the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia. This was the case of founders of the organization... Their organization was popularly seen in the local context as "the Bulgarian committee(s).

Sources[]

MI-AN Publishing, Skopje 1998, Macedonia Yesterday And Today

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[1] Brown, Keith (2003). The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation. Princeton University Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 9780691099958.

[2] "Битката кај "Слива"" (in Macedonian). Македонска нација. Retrieved 28 April 2012.

[3] Marinov, Tchavdar (2013). "Famous Macedonia, the Land of Alexander: Macedonian identity at the crossroads of Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian nationalism". In Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (eds.). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. Brill. pp. 273–330. ISBN 9789004250765. The "Adrianopolitan" part of the organization's name indicates that its agenda concerned not only Macedonia but also Thrace — a region whose Bulgarian population is by no means claimed by Macedonian nationalists today. In fact, as the organization's initial name ("Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees") shows, it had a Bulgarian national character: the revolutionary leaders were quite often teachers from the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia. This was the case of founders of the organization... Their organization was popularly seen in the local context as "the Bulgarian committee(s).

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