Gotse Delcheff - 104 години од смртта на Гоце Делчев

04.05.2007
Macedonia commemorates the 104th anniversary of revolutionary Gotse Delchev's death

Gotse Delcheff was the most important ethnic Macedonian revolutionary, who was born 1872 in Kukus, Aegean Macedonia, today in Northern Greece and was killed on May 4th, 1903 in the village of Banica, Ser/Serrhai) who fought for a free and independant Macedonian Republic.

After a mutual agreement between the government of the former federal republic of Macedonia and the Association of the Macedonian Fraternities in Bulgaria, the remains of Goce Delchev were transferred to the People's Republic of Macedonia, on October 10, 1946. The following day, they were solemnly embedded into a marble sarcophagus, displayed in the front yard of the "Sv. Spas" ("Holy Savior") church in Skopje.

His important quotes:
"Macedonia has its own interests and its own politics which belong to the Macedonians. The one who works for joining of Macedonia to Bulgaria, Greece, or Serbia, can consider himself as a good Bulgarian, Greek, or Serb, but not as a good Macedonian".

"I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among nations".

http://faq.macedonia.org/history/goce.html

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