Yordan Piperkata

Yordan Piperkata
Portrait of Yordan Piperkata
Born August 23, 1870
Kozica, near Kičevo, Ottoman Empire (now Republic of Macedonia)
Died August 22, 1903(1903-08-22) (aged 32)
Cer, Ottoman Empire, (now Republic of Macedonia)
Nationality Ottoman
Organization member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees

Yordan Piperkov (1870–1903) (Bulgarian: Йордан Силянов Пиперков); (Macedonian: Јордан Пиперков), widely known as Yordan Piperkata, (Bulgarian: Йордан Пиперката, Macedonian: Јордан Пиперката) was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the early 20th century, member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).[1][2][3] According to the Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian.[4]


Life

He was born in Kozica, Ottoman Empire, today in Kičevo Municipality, Republic of Macedonia to a poor family. He could not graduate at Bulgarian school in Bitola because his family moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he met insurgents from the Kresna-Razlog Uprising and other vojvods. This sparked in him an interest for the Macedonian liberation movement. Later Piperkata was active in the Macedonian Supreme Committee's actions in Ottoman Macedonia. Afterwards he participated in IMARO and several times entered Macedonia from Bulgaria with different chetas. Piperkata was killed during the Ilinden Uprising.

References

  1. ↑ Дино Кьосев и Ламби Данаилов. „Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903—1968“, Издателство на Националния съвет на Отечествения фронт, София, 1968 г., стр.28.
  2. ↑ Принос към историята на Вътрешната Македоно-Одринска Революционна Организация (градивен период) за времето 1900-1903 год. Н. П. Русински, 1. Страници от моя дневник за 1901 година.
  3. ↑ Анастас Лозанчев. Спомени от Б. Мирчев, Спомени на някои активни дейци в македонското революционно движение, ИИБИ, т. 6, 1956, с. 482-497.
  4. ↑ The first name of the IMRO was "Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees", which was later changed several times. Initially its membership was restricted only for Bulgarians. It 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’ and wrote in Bulgarian standard 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.

Sources

  • "Революционната дейность въ Демирхисаръ (битолско) по спомени на Алексо Стефановъ Демирхисарски войвода)", Съобщава Боянъ Мирчев, София—Печатница П.Глушковъ — 1931 стр.27-29
  • "Илюстрация Илинден", година І, брой 3, стр. 13, 14
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