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Yane Sandanski
Voivode Yane Sandanski | |
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 Yane Sandanski c. 1900 | |
| Native name | Яне Сандански |
| Birth name | Yane Ivanov Sandanski |
| Born | 18 May 1872 Vlahi, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 22 April 1915 (aged 42) Blatata, near Pirin, Tsardom of Bulgaria |
| Buried | |
| Allegiance | |
| Service |  Bulgarian Army |
| Battles / wars | Ilinden Uprising Macedonian Struggle Balkan Wars |
| Signature | .svg) |
Yane Ivanov Sandanski (Bulgarian: Яне Иванов Сандански, Macedonian: Јане Иванов Сандански, romanized: Jane Ivanov Sandanski;[1] Originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography as Яне Ивановъ Сандански (Yane Ivanov Sandanski);[2] 18 May 1872 – 22 April 1915) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the left-wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).[3]
In his youth Sandanski was involved in the anti-Ottoman struggle, joining initially the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), but later switched to IMARO. As an activist of the Liberal Party (Radoslavists), he became the head of the local prison in Dupnitsa. After the Ilinden uprising, Sandanski became the leader of the Serres revolutionary district. He supported the idea of a Balkan Federation, and Macedonia as an autonomous state within its framework, as an ultimate solution of the national problems in the area. During the Second Constitutional Era he became an Ottoman politician, collaborating with the Young Turks and founding the Bulgarian People's Federative Party.[4] Sandanski took up arms on the side of Bulgaria during the Balkan Wars (1912–13). Afterwards, he became involved in Bulgarian public life again but was assassinated by the rivalling IMARO right-wing faction activists.
He is recognised as a national hero in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia,[5] but his identity is also disputed between both countries. While People's Republic of Bulgaria honoured him,[6] after the fall of communism he has been described by Bulgarian nationalist historians as a betrayer of the Bulgarian national interests and collaborator with the Turks. On the contrary, in North Macedonia, the positive connotation of him, created in the times of Communist Yugoslavia is still alive, and he has been portrayed there as a fighter against the "Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia" and the "Turkish yoke."
- ^ John Neubauer; Marcel Cornis-Pope, eds. (2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 358, 506. ISBN 9789027234537.
- ^ Движението отсамъ Вардара и борбата съ върховиститѣ, съобщава Л. Милетичъ (Издава „Македонскиятъ Наученъ Институтъ", София - Печатница П. Глушковъ - 1927), стр. 11.
- ^ Loring Danforth. "Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization". Encyclopædia Britannica.
IMRO was founded in 1893 in Thessaloníki; its early leaders included Damyan Gruev, Gotsé Delchev, and Yane Sandanski, men who had a Macedonian regional identity and a Bulgarian national identity.
- ^ Maria Todorova (2020). The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 64. ISBN 1350150347.
The other prominent member of the Socialist Workers' Federation, besides the Sephardic Circle and the "anarcho-liberals," was the People's Federative Party–Bulgarian Section. The latter was founded in April 1909 by IMRO members who actively participated in the Young Turk Revolution and the "Army of Freedom" march on Istanbul to quell the countercoup in 1909. It was strongly divided along ideological lines and different strategic choices around social democrats like Dimitîr Vlahov (1878–1953), nationalists with socialist leanings like Iane Sandanski (1872–1915), and nationalists like Khristo Chernopeev.
- ^ Vemund Aarbakke (2011). "Images of imperial legacy: The impact of nationalizing discourse on the image of the last years of Ottoman rule in Macedonia". In Tea Sindbæk; Maxmilian Hartmuth (eds.). Images of Imperial Legacy, Modern Discourses on the social and cultural impact of Ottoman and Habsburg rule in Southeast Europe. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 121. ISBN 3643108508.
The way Bulgarian and Macedonian history and identities are intertwined is exemplified by the dispute over the identity of revolutionary heroes such as Gotse Delchev and Yane Sandanski. Bulgarian nationalists, for example, ridicule their Macedonian counterparts' identification with Sandanski, since archival documents refer to him as Bulgarian.
- ^ Frederick F. Anscombe (2014). State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 9781107729674.
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