Dimitar Vlahov
Dimitar Vlahov Member of the Ottoman Parliament | |
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In office Fall 1908 – January 1910 (when he resigns from the Federative Party) | |
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Born | 8 November 1878 SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia) |
Political party | People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) |
Dimitar Vlahov (Bulgarian: Димитър Влахов; Macedonian: Димитар Влахов; 8 November 1878 – 7 April 1953) was a politician from the region of Macedonia and member of the left wing of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement (also known as Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO)). As with many other IMRO members of the time, historians from North Macedonia consider him an ethnic Macedonian and in Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian. According to Dimitar Bechev, Vlahov declared himself until the early 1930s as a Bulgarian and afterwards as an ethnic Macedonian.[1]
Life
He was born in Kılkış (Bulgarian/Macedonian
In the following years, Vlahov was politically active as a deputy in the
In 1932 members of IMRO (United), put for the first time the issue of the recognition of a separate
On 26 November, at the First Conference of the National Liberation Front of Macedonia, he was elected its president, and at the Second Session of Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) in December he was elected a member of the Presidium of ASNOM. At the Third Session of ASNOM in April 1945 he became a member of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Macedonia.
Post-war, Vlahov argued that Macedonians had "all the elements" that make a nation. In his 1950 book Macedonia-Comments of the History of the Macedonian People, he claimed that modern Macedonians came from a fusion of Slavs with the ancient Macedonians, that Samuel of Bulgaria's empire was a Macedonian state, and that Cyril and Methodius were Macedonians' gift to Slavism, among other assertions.[5]
Per
Footnotes
- ISBN 0810862956, p. 235.
- ^ Произходът на македонската нация - Стенограма от заседание на Македонския Научен Институт в София през 1947 г.
- ^ Мемоари на Димитър Влахов. Скопје, 1970, стр. 356.
- ^ Alexis Heraclides (2021). The Macedonian Question And The Macedonians. Taylor & Francis. p. 91.
- ^ Alexis Heraclides (2021). The Macedonian Question And The Macedonians. Taylor & Francis. pp. 171–172.
- ^ Академик Катарџиев, Иван. Верувам во националниот имунитет на македонецот, интервју за списание "Форум", 22 jули 2000, број 329.
- ^ As the historian Ivan Katardziev pointed out many years ago, even the veterans of the left-wing IMRO (United) in the second half of the 1940s "remained only at the level of political and not national separatism." In this sense, we can say that today's definition of Macedonian national identity necessarily went through Yugoslav socialization and overt anti-Bulgarianism, and this certainly also goes through a historical narrative from Yugoslav times, which seriously ignores historical facts. Not by chance, speaking of personalities like Dimitar Vlahov or Pavel Shatev, Katardziev adds: "They practically felt like Bulgarians. For more: "Стефан Дечев: Две държава, две истории, много „истини“ и една клета наука - трета част. Marginalia, 15.06.2018.
- ^ In conclusion, Gotse and IMRO were "children of the Exarchate", and the later ethnic Macedonia was mostly the creation of an young generation brought up from the end of the 20s of the 20th century in Belgrade or Zagreb, who had a different sensibility. The old IMRO people were not like that. It is not by chance that the distinguished historian Ivan Katardziev in an interview from the late 90s said that even one Dimitar Vlahov until the end of his life could not feel what it means to be an ethnic Macedonian, he remained with the old political Macedonianism of Gotse Delchev and Yane Sandanski, who is a very Bulgarian phenomenon. For more: Стефан Дечев: Дори македонските тълкувания за езика от Средновековието и 19 в. да са тенденциозни, защо да е невъзможно да се признае съществуването на стандартен македонски книжовен език? Marginalia, 17.12.2019.
- ISBN 1317049365, p. 188.
- ISBN 081794883X, p. 238.
External links
- Biography of Dimitar Vlahov, Skopje, 1966, Gustav Vlahov (Macedonian)
- Dimitar Vlahov, Struggle of the Macedonian people for liberation, Vienna 1925 (Bulgarian)
- "Такрир подаден от българските депутати: Далчев, Дорев, Павлов, Влахов и арм. Вахан Папасиян до Отоманския парламент", публикувано във в. "Вести", брой 129(юли), Цариград, 1909 година A declaration of the Bulgarian senators in the Ottoman parliament - 1909 (in Bulgarian)
- Димитър Влахов от Кукуш, Егейска Македония - "Спомени от Солун", публикувано в сп. "Илюстрация Светлина", книга I, год. XIII, София, 1905 година in Bulgarian
- "Мемоар на българските депутати против поведението на Младотурския режим към българското население", публикувано във в. "Дебърски глас" брой 10, София, 1910 година Memoire of the Bulgarian deputies in the Ottoman parliament against the treatment of the Bulgarian population by the Young Turk regime. (In Bulgarian)