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Voivode

Lazar Poptrajkov
A portait of Lazar Pop-Trajkov.
Native name
Лазар Поп-Трајков
Born10 April 1878
Dambeni, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Dendrochori, Greece)
DiedOctober 1903
Allegiance IMRO
Years of service1896-1903
Battles / warsIlinden Uprising †
Alma materBulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki
Other workTeacher
Poet

Lazar Poptraykov Macedonian: Лазар Поп-Трајков) (10 April 1878–October 1903) was a Macedonian revolutionary (komita). He was also a Macedonian Exarchate teacher[1][2] and poet from Ottoman Macedonia.[3][4] He was one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) in the region of Kastoria (Kostur) during the Ilinden Uprising.

Life

Lazar Poptraykov.

Lazar Poptraykov was born in Dambeni, Ottoman Empire (now Dendrohori, Greece) on 10 April 1878.[5] He studied at the local village school before moving to the Bulgarian junior high school in Kostur.[6] Later he continued to study at the Bitola Bulgarian Classical High School and afterwards at Thessaloniki's Bulgarian Men High School.[7][8] In Thessaloniki, one of his teachers was Pere Toshev. Poptraykov joined IMARO as early as 1895, inspired by Dame Gruev.[9] He finished the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki in 1898,[10] though he had started touring the Kastoria region to promote the work of IMARO two years earlier, in 1896.[11]

Poptraykov was one of the founders of the Kastoria branch of IMARO. On 21 June 1903 he wrote a poem titled Lokvata and Vinyari (Template:Lang-bg, Macedonian Slavic: Локвата и Вињари) to commemorate the battle of Lokvata between Bulgarian revolutionaries and Ottoman troops in Dendrohori during the Ilinden Uprising.[5] His poem had large impact on the national identification of the villagers of Dendrohori whose allegiance to Bulgaria increased during the following years.[5] Poptraykov was arrested by Ottoman authorities and imprisoned in Korçë along with fellow revolutionaries Manol Rozov, Maslina Grancharova, and Pavel Christov.

Death

The photo of Lazar Poptraykov's head c. 1903

Poptraykov died at the end of the Ilinden Uprising when he was assassinated by Konstantinos Christou, a fighter for Greek interests and was acting under orders by Germanos Karavangelis, bishop of Kastoria.[12] Per Karavangelis, Poptraykov was the worst enemy of Hellenism, who fanatized the peasants in favor of the Bulgarian national idea.[13] Christou who switched the side from Bulgarians to Greeks and vice versa, was received back by the IMRO at the insistence of Poptraykov. However, after Poptraykov had been wounded and taken a refuge with Kottas, he used the opportunity to kill him and present his head to Karavangelis who took a picture of the head on his desk.[12]

Literature

Sources

  1. ^ Воин Божинов, Българската просвета в Македония и Одринска Тракия, 1878-1913, Изд-во на Българската академия на науките, 1982, стр. 230.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference, Anthropology, Culture, and Society. Jane K. Cowan, Pluto Press, 2000, ISBN 0745315895, p. 74.
  4. ^ Macedonia: documents and material, Institut za istoria, Institut za bŭlgarski ezik, Voin Bozhinov, Li͡u͡bomir Panaĭotov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1978, p. 11.
  5. ^ a b c Cowan, Jane (2000). Macedonia: the politics of identity and difference. Pluto Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-7453-1589-5.
  6. ^ Георги Бистрицки. Българско Костурско, Ксанти, 1919, стр. 52.
  7. ^ Конески, Блаже (1979). Коментар кон преводот на поемата на Лазар Поп Трајков: Поп Трајков Л., Локвата и Вињари (in Macedonian). Скопје: Библиоетека "Современост", Кн. 49.
  8. ^ Борис, Николов; Владимир Овчаров (2005). Спомени на Владимир Карамфилов за просветното дело и революционните борби в гр. Прилеп (in Bulgarian). ИК "Звезди". p. 9.
  9. ^ Киселиновски Ст., ed. (2000). "Поп Трајков, Лазар". Македонски историски речник (in Macedonian). Скопје: Институт за национална историја.
  10. ^ Кандиларовъ, Георги Ст. Българскитѣ гимназии и основни училища въ Солунъ (по случай на 50-годишнината на солунскитѣ български гимназии). София, Македонски Наученъ Институтъ, печатница П. Глушковъ, 1930. с. 95.
  11. ^ "Поптрайков, Лазар". Енциклопедия България (in Bulgarian). София: Издателство на Българската академия на науките. 1986.
  12. ^ a b Fortescue, Adrian (2004). The Orthodox Eastern Church. Kessinger Publishing. p. 344. ISBN 1-4179-1060-7.
  13. ^ Македонската борба (Спомени), Германос Каравангелис. ИК „Синева”. (София, 2001) Превод от гръцки: Илия Корбец. ISBN 9549983110, стр. 343.
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