Battle of Sliva

The Battle of Sliva occurred in an area known as Sliva in the city of Kruševo, in Ottoman Macedonia on the August 12, 1903. It was an important episode of Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising which occurred 10 days after the Kruševo Republic was proclaimed back on August 2, 1903, and eventually lead to the fall of the Republic and to the suppression of the uprising.[1][2]

The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation was unorganised for this battle. Many 16- and 17-year-old men were also involved in this battle even though men were drafted at the age of 18 to join the army. This battle happened above a mountain with a height of 1,357 metres (4,452 ft) above sea level that was densely forested and was only a few kilometres from a popular area known as Mechkin Kamen.

The belligerents of the battle were the Ottoman Army up against the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO). The IMRO had a force of 500 to 600 revolutionaries, while the Turkish Ottoman Army had a total of 3,000 to 3,100 soldiers. The commander for the IMRO was Todor Hristov. The Turkish army saw a victory and some of the Bulgarian rebels were captured.[3]

References

Brown, Keith (2003). The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation. Princeton University Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 9780691099958.
"Битката кај "Слива"" (in Macedonian). Македонска нација. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
Marinov, Tchavdar (2013). "Famous Macedonia, the Land of Alexander: Macedonian identity at the crossroads of Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian nationalism". In Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (eds.). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. Brill. pp. 273–330. ISBN 9789004250765. The "Adrianopolitan" part of the organization's name indicates that its agenda concerned not only Macedonia but also Thrace — a region whose Bulgarian population is by no means claimed by Macedonian nationalists today. In fact, as the organization's initial name ("Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees") shows, it had a Bulgarian national character: the revolutionary leaders were quite often teachers from the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia. This was the case of founders of the organization... Their organization was popularly seen in the local context as "the Bulgarian committee(s).

Sources

MI-AN Publishing, Skopje 1998, Macedonia Yesterday And Today

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[1] Brown, Keith (2003). The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation. Princeton University Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 9780691099958.

[2] "Битката кај "Слива"" (in Macedonian). Македонска нација. Retrieved 28 April 2012.

[3] Marinov, Tchavdar (2013). "Famous Macedonia, the Land of Alexander: Macedonian identity at the crossroads of Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian nationalism". In Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (eds.). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. Brill. pp. 273–330. ISBN 9789004250765. The "Adrianopolitan" part of the organization's name indicates that its agenda concerned not only Macedonia but also Thrace — a region whose Bulgarian population is by no means claimed by Macedonian nationalists today. In fact, as the organization's initial name ("Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees") shows, it had a Bulgarian national character: the revolutionary leaders were quite often teachers from the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia. This was the case of founders of the organization... Their organization was popularly seen in the local context as "the Bulgarian committee(s).