Gligor Zisov
Gligor Zisov (
Biography
Zisov was born in the nearby village of Aposkep (present-day Aposkepos, Greece). Having graduated from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki, he became the schoolteacher of the village of Tseresnitsa (today Polikeraso), in 1912. A student of his recalled:[1]
"He was medium-height, neither particularly tall nor short. Wherever he went, the ground grew more beautiful; he was just like a teacher..."[1]
After the establishing of the Greek authorities in the region of Kastoria, a militia group of Evzones installed in the village of Tseresnitsa.[2] Greek soldiers however, tried to convince him to become a teacher of the Greek language but he refused, saying that Bulgaria and Greece were allies, as they were member-states of the Balkan League. After refusing repeatedly to become a Greek teacher, he was severely beaten in front of his students.[3]
Consequently, Zisov's father took him back to his home village; however, Zisov was soon after arrested by Greeks, bound, and led back to Tseresnitsa.
On the eve of the
References
- ^ a b Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. p. 37.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1914). Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War (PDF). pp. 197–199.
- ^ Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. p. 51.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). One of the students recalled: ...they began to beat him. They would leave him alone for a little bit so that he could stand up, only to resume the beating. One of the soldiers, grabbing him by the hair, held him slanted; another whipped him with a rope. They then threw him to the ground and dragged him by his feet, until Gligor was left with little spirit. I watched all this, wondering if a mother could have possibly birthed such animals. - ^ Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. pp. 51–53.
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