Georgi N. Georgiev
(Summary)
The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903 was an uprising of the
Macedonian and Thracian Bulgarians in the European vilayets of the
Ottoman Empire, supported by the free Bulgarians living in the Principality
of Bulgaria. This fact, which is the shortest possible definition
of the uprising, has been simultaneously and universally recognized
– first of all, by the Ottoman authorities themselves, and together with
them – by the jealous and hostile to the Bulgarian national cause Balkan
neighbours, as well as by ‘big’ and ‘small’ countries, by international
observers of different origins.
The questioning of the Bulgarian
character of the uprising started to gain momentum much later, with
the blurring power of politics and geopolitics which intervened to create
misconceptions. This way they turned over time until today into an
artificially maintained problem in interstate relations. The Bulgarian
Ilinden of 1903 and the revolutionary struggle in Macedonia and Adrianople
Thrace in general prepared the Balkan War of 1912.
The Macedonian-
Adrianople liberation movement provided the Bulgarian national
state with the historic chance to solve the all-Bulgarian question
inherited from the Revival period: a task with which, unfortunately,
the Bulgarian political elite failed to cope.
Keywords: Bulgarian Ilinden, Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Macedonia,
Adrianople Thrace
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