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What Was the Ilinden Uprising FYROM Wants in its Name?

It includes parts of Greece’s Macedonia

Most Greeks turned to the history books to learn about the Ilinden uprising of 1903 when news emerged that Athens and Skopje are discussing the name “Republic of Ilinden Macedonia” for FYROM.
It was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was prepared and carried out by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). The name of the uprising refers to Ilinden, the Bulgarian and FYROM name for Elijah’s day.
IMARO, founded in Thessaloniki in 1893, sought to liberate all Christians and Macedonians from the Ottomans and envisaged a state that would include all Macedonians.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Ottoman Empire was crumbling, and the lands they had held in Eastern Europe for over 500 years were passing to new rulers.
Macedonia and Thrace were regions of indefinite boundaries, adjacent to the recently independent Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian states, but themselves still under the control of the Ottoman Turks. Each of the neighboring states based claims to Macedonia and Thrace on various historical and racial grounds.
After the rebellion, a provisional government was established in the town of Krusevo, where the insurgents proclaimed the Krusevo Republic under the presidency of the school teacher Nikola Karev, which was overrun by the Ottomans after just ten days, on August 12.

The survivors managed to maintain a guerrilla campaign against the Turks for the next few years, but its greater effect was that it persuaded the European powers to attempt to convince the Ottoman sultan that he must take a more conciliatory attitude toward his Christian subjects in Europe.
Historians from FYROM see the uprising as a part of the move for an independent state and its leaders are celebrated as heroes.
August 2 is the national holiday in FYROM, known as Day of the Republic, which considers it the date of its first statehood in modern times.
(with information from Wikipedia)

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