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'''Tororo''' is a [[Districts of Uganda|district]] in eastern [[Uganda]]. Like other Ugandan districts, it is named after its "chief town", [[Tororo]]. It is home to the [[Sukulu complex]], a [[carbonatite|carbonatite complex]] 6 km east of Tororo town, which is known for its [[apatite]], [[baddeleyite]], [[dolomite]], [[goethite]], [[hematite]], [[ilmenite]], [[magnetite]], [[pyrochlore]], [[quartz]], [[shortite]], and [[zircon]].{{ref|sukulu}} |
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| name = Ivan Vedar |
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| image = Ivan_Vedar.jpg |
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| birth_date = 1827 |
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| birth_place = [[Razgrad]], present-day [[Bulgaria]] |
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| death_date = 1898 |
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| death_place = [[Rousse]], [[Bulgaria]] |
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| occupation = Freemason, polyglot, revolutionary |
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Tororo District is also home to [[Uganda Orphans Rural Development Program|Uganda Orphans Rural Development Program (UORDP)]], which was founded in 1998 to "promote and support the health, nutrition, income and educational status of orphaned children, their caregivers, widows and widowers and other marginalized groups especially women affected and infected with [[AIDS|HIV/AIDS]]."{{ref|uordp}} |
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'''Ivan Vedar''' ({{lang-bg|Иван Ведър}}), born '''Danail Nikolov''', a.k.a. '''Yani Ingiliz''', '''Johny English''', '''Ovanes Efendi''' (equivalents of the name ''Ivan''), '''Denkooglu''' (after ''Deniu'', ''Danail''), was born in [[Razgrad]], present [[Bulgaria]] in 1827. He is often referred to as the founder of [[freemasonry]] in Bulgaria.<ref> |
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| url = http://www.grandlodge-bulgaria.org/English/history_1941.htm |
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| title = History of Freemasonry in Bulgaria |
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| accessmonthday = [[29 April]] |
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| accessyear = 2007 |
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| author = United Grand Lodge of Bulgaria |
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{{Cite web |
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| url = http://www.scottishrite-bg.org/default.aspx?page=history <!-- to read the page in English, you have to click the GB/US flag --> |
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| title = History of Freemasonry in the Lands of Bulgaria |
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| accessmonthday = [[29 April]] |
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| accessyear = 2007 |
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| author = Scottish Rite in Bulgaria |
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He was proficient in many [[Indo-European languages]], [[Latin]], and various [[Arabic language|Arabic]] dialects. |
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# {{note|sukulu}} [http://www.mindat.org/loc-30486.html Sukulu Complex, Tororo District, Uganda] mindat.org |
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# {{note|uordp}} Jaramogi, Apollo. [http://www.stfx.ca/institutes/ccbm/text/Papers/ApolloJaramogi.html The role of Uganda orphans Rural Development program (UORDP) in Enhancing Natural Resources and Livelihoods for Orphaned Children through community Based Natural Resource management in Tororo District Uganda] The Centre for Community-Based Resource Management. Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. 7 Nov. 2002. |
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During Danail's early years, his father, the architect Karastoyan, was requested to build a house for a local Turk, an important person. (Bulgaria was under [[Ottoman rule of Bulgaria|Ottoman rule]] then.) The requester refused to pay, a row flared up with knives taken out, and, in order to save his father, Danail killed the Turk. What followed was a change of his name and life under cover. He studied in a college in [[Malta]], where he picked up many languages, he worked as a sailor on an [[England|English]] ship, travelling between [[London]] and [[Melbourne]], he was an interpreter in Turkish institutions in [[Tsarigrad]], he taught languages in [[İzmir]] to the sons of Turkish notables (including [[Midhat Pasha]]). During the [[Crimean war]] he travelled over [[Black Sea]] harbours, possibly as a [[Russia]]n spy. He continued his studies in the medical school in [[Bucharest]], where he got his pseudonym ''Vedriy'' or ''Vedar'' (meaning ''cheerful'') from the professors Dr Peter Protić and Dr Georgi Atanasović, because of his easy-going temper. |
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In 1863 in the [[Tsarigrad]] branch of ''Oriental Lodge'' he was initiated into masonry. He managed to reach the 33rd degree, the last one, according the ''Old and Accepted Scottish Rite''. An even more colourful lifestyle followed — he worked on the first Bulgarian railway [[Rousse]]–[[Varna]], then as a trade representative in [[Manchester]], he married the daughter of a respected architect from Rousse, he taught at [[Robert College]], he was a correspondent for different European newspapers. [[Midhat Pasha]] appointed him a "secretary of the external correspondence", which lets him frequently keep in touch with foreign diplomats. He provided financial aid to some uprisings and the revolutionary movement in Rousse, among whose members he had already established friendly relations. He interceded for [[Zahari Stoyanov]] to become a librarian in the [[Zora cultural club]]. His lobbying lifted off the decision of [[Delaver Pasha]] to massacre a great part of the population in Rousse in 1877. |
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After the [[Liberation of Bulgaria]], Ivan Vedar installed the first Bulgarian regular masonic lodge ''Balkan Star'' ({{lang-fr|Etoile des Balkans}}) in Rousse in 1880, among whose members are [[Nikola Obretenov]], Zahari Stoyanov, [[Ilarion Dragostinov]], [[Toma Kardzhiev]], and which was visited incognito by the king-to-be [[Alexander Batenberg]]. Later, new lodges were founded in [[Varna]] (where the first ''Great lodge'' was located for a short time), [[Sofia]], and some other cities, but in 1887 Vedar was forced to "put asleep" all lodges, because of the danger that their activity gets spoiled by political and interpersonal struggles, so common in the young and inexperienced country. |
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In the end of his life, he assigned all of his property to the state, saying he had given enough to his children — education and upbringing. The bones of Ivan Vedar were moved to the [[Pantheon of National Revival Heroes]],<ref>{{cite news |
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| title = Слагат костите на първия масон в пантеон |
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| url = http://www.segabg.com/online/article.asp?issueid=843§ionid=3&id=00018 |
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| publisher = СЕГА |
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| language = Bulgarian |
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}}</ref> and a monument in his honour was put nearby. Modern masonic organisations in Bulgaria issue a medal with his name.<!-- link seems to be dead <ref>(in Bulgarian) http://chernomorie.info.bg/article.asp?topicID=29&issueID=710</ref> --> |
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== The event in Rousse in 1877 == |
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[[Image:Ivan Vedar monument.jpg|thumb|right|Ivan Vedar's monument]] |
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In the end of August, Russian forces fiercely attacked the Turkish quarter in Rousse, which the almost completely razed to the ground. That enraged the Turkish governors and they decided to massacre the whole Bulgarian population in Rousse — all of them were taken out in the field near the Vladikova bahcha (the present ''Youth's Park''), where they spent several days and nights. Vedar managed to slip out of his surrounded house though paying a bag of gold. He dropped in at the [[Italy|Italian]] counsul [[Enrique de Gubernatis]], together with whom they invited the influential Turk [[hajji]] [[Mehmed Alia]] to ascend with them to the [[Leventa]] hill, in order to lobby with [[Delaver Pasha]], the commander of the [[Egypt]]ian forces positioned around the city. |
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When they came in at the pasha's, the three of them made the masonic sign with a hand. Realizing that he was talking to a higher-ranking brother, he promised Ivan brotherly cooperation. When the delegation came down from Leventa, they found the population surrounded by the regular Egyptian army, which guarded them from the [[Circassians|Cherkez]] and [[bashi-bazouk]] soldiers. The result was an exodus from a secure death for 4000 Rousse citizens and of setting the city ablaze. |
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== References == |
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Revision as of 16:29, 11 October 2008
Tororo is a district in eastern Uganda. Like other Ugandan districts, it is named after its "chief town", Tororo. It is home to the Sukulu complex, a carbonatite complex 6 km east of Tororo town, which is known for its apatite, baddeleyite, dolomite, goethite, hematite, ilmenite, magnetite, pyrochlore, quartz, shortite, and zircon.[1]
Tororo District is also home to Uganda Orphans Rural Development Program (UORDP), which was founded in 1998 to "promote and support the health, nutrition, income and educational status of orphaned children, their caregivers, widows and widowers and other marginalized groups especially women affected and infected with HIV/AIDS."[2]
References
- ^ Sukulu Complex, Tororo District, Uganda mindat.org
- ^ Jaramogi, Apollo. The role of Uganda orphans Rural Development program (UORDP) in Enhancing Natural Resources and Livelihoods for Orphaned Children through community Based Natural Resource management in Tororo District Uganda The Centre for Community-Based Resource Management. Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. 7 Nov. 2002.
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