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Bulgaria marks 149 years since birth of revolutionary leader Gotse Delchev

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Gotse Delchev is one of the most important Bulgarian revolutionaries, leader and ideologue of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Edirne Revolutionary Committees, renamed to VMORO. 

He was born in the town of Kukush, in Aegean Macedonia, on February 4, 1872. He graduated from the Thessaloniki-based Bulgarian Boys' High School, where he founded a secret revolutionary circle together with Dame Gruev, Gjorče Petrov and Boris Sarafov for the freedom of Macedonia. He entered the Military School in Sofia. He was attracted to VMORO by Dame Gruev and returned to Macedonia. He was elected a foreign representative and a member of the VMORO leadership. He built the revolutionary network. 
Gotse Delchev was killed in 1903 in the village of Banitsa in region of Serres, which was an irreparable loss for the revolutionary organization.



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