Global InformationLazar Poptraykov information
Voivode Lazar Poptraykov | |
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 A portrait of Lazar Poptraykov | |
| Native name | Лазар Поптрайков |
| Born | 10 April 1878 Dambeni, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Dendrochori, Greece) |
| Died | October 1903 |
| Allegiance |  IMRO |
| Years of service | 1896-1903 |
| Battles/wars | Ilinden Uprising † |
| Alma mater | Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki |
| Other work | Teacher Poet |
Lazar Poptraykov (Bulgarian: Лазар Поптрайков; Macedonian: Лазар Поп-Трајков; 10 April 1878–October 1903) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji).[1] He was also a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher[2][3] and poet from Ottoman Macedonia.[4][5] He was one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) in the region of Kastoria (Kostur) during the Ilinden Uprising. Despite his Bulgarian identification,[6][7][8] per the post-WWII Macedonian historiography he was as an ethnic Macedonian.[citation needed]
- ^ This is recorded in Lazar Kiselinchev's diary. He describes what Poptraykov said during his farewell to the renegade Kottas, who was sentenced to death. "Денес македонците свички въстанае, за да строшат робските окови. Заради това е голема грешка ние, свички чеда на една земя, братя по кърв и българи по произхождение, да се мразим и да се преследваме." Христофор Тзавелла, Дневник на костурския войвода Лазар Киселинчев, Македония-прес, 2003, ISBN 9548823462, стр. 88.
- ^ Воин Божинов, Българската просвета в Македония и Одринска Тракия, 1878-1913, Изд-во на Българската академия на науките, 1982, стр. 230.
- ^ In Macedonia, the education race produced the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which organized and carried out the Ilinden Uprising of 1903. Most of IMRO’s founders and principal organizers were graduates of the Bulgarian Exarchate schools in Macedonia, who had become teachers and inspectors in the same system that had educated them. Frustrated with the pace of change, they organized and networked to develop their movement throughout the Bulgarian school system that employed them. The Exarchate schools were an ideal forum in which to propagate their cause, and the leading members were able to circulate to different posts, to spread the word, and to build up supplies and stores for the anticipated uprising. As it became more powerful, IMRO was able to impress upon the Exarchate its wishes for teacher and inspector appointments in Macedonia. For more see: Julian Brooks, The Education Race for Macedonia, 1878—1903 in The Journal of Modern Hellenism, Vol 31 (2015) pp. 23-58.
- ^ Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference, Anthropology, Culture, and Society. Jane K. Cowan, Pluto Press, 2000, ISBN 0745315895, p. 74.
- ^ Macedonia: documents and material, Institut za istoria, Institut za bŭlgarski ezik, Voin Bozhinov, Li͡u͡bomir Panaĭotov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1978, p. 11.
- ^ Initially the membership in the IMRO was restricted only for Bulgarians. Its first name was "Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees", which was later changed several times. IMRO 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’. All of them wrote in standard Bulgarian 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.
- ^ Васил Чекаларов: Дневник 1901-1903 г. Съставителство Ива Бурилкова, Цочо Билярски. (ИК „Синева” София, 2001). ISBN 9549983110, стр. 122.
- ^ Дневници и спомени за Илинденско-Преображенското въстание, Съставители: Здравка Нонева и др. Редактори: Любомир Атанасов Панайотов и др. Главно управление на архивите на Министерския съвет, Издателство на Отечествения фронт, София, 1984 г. стр. 151-224.