Georgi Sugarev

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Georgi Sugarev

Georgi Kostov Sugarev (

Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1][2][3] In North Macedonia, Sugarev is part of the country's historical heritage as an ethnic Macedonian.[4][5]

Sugarev was born in 1876 in Bitola, then in the Ottoman Empire, today in North Macedonia. His family was very poor and his mother together with his brothers Hristo, Mihail and Vangel emigrated to the United States and actively participate in the activities of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization. Vangel became there a historian and author of several books as "The Bulgarian nationality of the Macedonians" and "The constitution of the Bulgarian revolutionary central committee".[6]

Sugarev completed fourth grade of Bulgarian Men's High School of Bitola. Afterwards he became a Bulgarian teacher initially in

Ivan Naumov Alyabaka. Later Sugarev left for Bitola to arrange joint actions against the pro-Serbian bands in the Bitola and Skopje revolutionary districts. By this activity, Sugarev was helped by the Bulgarian vojvodas Petar Yurukov and Petar Radev
.

The tombstone of Sugarev, that after WWII was destroyed by the Yugoslav communist authorities.

In March 1906 Sugarev traveled to Mariovo to counter the intensifying Greek bands. Because of betrayal, of March 23, 1906, the cheta was surrounded near the village of Paralevo of numerous Turkish forces and after a fierce battle was completely destroyed.

During the Second World War, when the area was under Bulgarian administration, the authorities built a tombstone of Sugarev on his place of a skull, which after the war was destroyed by the Yugoslav administration.

References

  1. ^ Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 161-162.
  2. ^ Сониксен, Алберт. Изповедта на един македонски четник, Трето издание, София, 1983, Изд. на Отечествения фронт, стр.63.
  3. ^ Спомени от моето минало, глава 18, Тома Николов, Изд. на Отеч. фронт, София, 1989.
  4. , p. 300.
  5. ^ Македонски алманахъ. Индианаполисъ, Индиана, САЩ, Централенъ Комитетъ на Македонскитѣ политически организации въ Съединенитѣ щати, Канада и Австралия, 1940. с. 352.
  6. ^ Георги Георгиев, Йордан Николов Шопов (1969) Илинденското въстание, Военно издателство, София, стр. 223.

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