Mile Popyordanov

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Mile Popyordanov (Bulgarian: Миле Попйорданов Macedonian: Миле Поп Јорданов) (1877-1901), born Milan Popyordanov,[1] was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).[2][3] According to the post-World War II Macedonian historiography,[4][5] he was an ethnic Macedonian.[6][7]

Biography[]

Milan Popyordanov was born in Veles, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia) in 1877. His younger brother, Yordan Popyordanov, was one of the Gemidzhii that launched the Thessaloniki bombings of 1903. Mile Popyordanov studied at the Bulgarian men's high school in the town of Bitola and later at the Constantinople Bulgarian Theological Seminary, before becoming an active member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Afterwards he worked as Bulgarian teacher in his native area.[8] As an active member of the IMARO, he joined later the regional detachment operating around Radovis. From the end of 1900 Gotse Delchev appointed Milan Popyordanov as leader of that detachment. At the beginning of March 1901 he arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria by his brother. There Popyordanov persuaded the Bulgarian poet Peyo Yavorov to leave for Macedonia as a guerrilla. As a sign of friendship when leaving, Yavorov presented him with his official suit.[9] In September, on his return to Veles, he was ambushed and surrounded by Ottoman soldiers. Then he was engaged in a shootout with them. In order not to be caught alive, he killed himself.[10] Afterwards the Turkish soldiers disfigured his face beyond recognition. He was identified by the suit given to him by Yavorov. There is a folk song about Popyordanov ('Болен ми лежи Миле Попйор��анов').

References[]

  1. ^ Енциклопедия "България". Издателство: БАН, 1986 г. Автор: Владимир Георгиев, стр. 343.
  2. ^ Спомени на Иванъ Анастасовъ Гърчето в: Милетичъ, Любомиръ. „Движението отсамъ Вардара и борбата съ върховистите по спомени на Яне Сандански, Черньо Пеевъ, Сава Михайловъ, Хр. Куслевъ, Ив. Анастасовъ Гърчето, Петъръ Хр. Юруковъ и Никола Пушкаровъ“, Материали за историята на македонското освободително движение, книга VII, Издава „Македонскиятъ Наученъ Институтъ", София - Печатница П. Глушковъ - 1927, стр. 140.
  3. ^ Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 134.
  4. ^ According to Leslie Benson in Yugoslav Macedonia the past was systematically falsified to conceal the fact that many prominent 'Macedonians' had supposed themselves to be Bulgarian, and generations of students were taught that "pseudo-history" of the 'Macedonian nation. The mass media and education system were the keys to this process of national acculturation, speaking to people in a language that they came to regard as their 'Macedonian' mother tongue, even it was perfectly understood in Sofia. For more see: L. Benson, Yugoslavia: A Concise History, Edition 2, Springer, 2003, ISBN 1403997209, p. 89.
  5. ^ The origins of the official Macedonian national narrative are to be sought in the establishment in 1944 of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. This open acknowledgment of the Macedonian national identity led to the creation of a revisionist historiography whose goal has been to affirm the existence of the Macedonian nation through the history. Macedonian historiography is revising a considerable part of ancient, medieval, and modern histories of the Balkans. Its goal is to claim for the Macedonian peoples a considerable part of what the Greeks consider Greek history and the Bulgarians Bulgarian history. The claim is that most of the Slavic population of Macedonia in the 19th and first half of the 20th century was ethnic Macedonian. For more see: Victor Roudometof, Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0275976483, p. 58; Victor Roudometof, Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Balkans: Greece and the Macedonian Question in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 14.2 (1996) 253-301.
  6. ^ The first name of the IMRO was "Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees", which was later changed several times. Initially its membership was restricted only for Bulgarians. It was active not only in Macedonia but also in Thrace (the Vilayet of Adrianople). Since its early name emphasized the Bulgarian nature of the organization by linking the inhabitants of Thrace and Macedonia to Bulgaria, these facts are still difficult to be explained from the Macedonian historiography. They suggest that IMRO revolutionaries in the Ottoman period did not differentiate between ‘Macedonians’ and ‘Bulgarians’. Moreover, as their own writings attest, they often saw themselves and their compatriots as ‘Bulgarians’ and wrote in Bulgarian standard language. For more see: Brunnbauer, Ulf (2004) Historiography, Myths and the Nation in the Republic of Macedonia. In: Brunnbauer, Ulf, (ed.) (Re)Writing History. Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism. Studies on South East Europe, vol. 4. LIT, Münster, pp. 165-200 ISBN 382587365X.
  7. ^ The modern Macedonian historiographic equation of IMRO demands for autonomy with a separate and distinct national identity does not necessarily jibe with the historical record. A rather obvious problem is the very title of the organization, which included Thrace in addition to Macedonia. Thrace whose population was never claimed by modern Macedonian nationalism...There is, moreover, the not less complicated issue of what autonomy meant to the people who espoused it in their writings. According to Hristo Tatarchev, their demand for autonomy was motivated not by an attachment to Macedonian national identity but out of concern that an explicit agenda of unification with Bulgaria would provoke other small Balkan nations and the Great Powers to action. Macedonian autonomy, in other words, can be seen as a tactical diversion, or as “Plan B” of Bulgarian unification. İpek Yosmaoğlu, Blood Ties: Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908, Cornell University Press, 2013, ISBN 0801469791, pp. 15-16.
  8. ^ Цанко Серафимов, Енциклопедичен речник за Македония и македонските работи, Орбел, 2004; ISBN 9544960708, стр. 243-244.
  9. ^ Миле Попйорданов наследил костюма на Яворов, 22 авг. 2013, Епицентър. (в. Преса, печатно издание, брой 228 (579) от 22 август 2013)
  10. ^ В Македония под робство: солунското съзаклятие (1903 г.) : подготовка и изпълнение, Библиотека Български мемоари, Автор Павел Шатев, издател Български писател, 1968 г. стр. 224.

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