Tschiprovzi uprising
The uprising of Tschiprovzi ( Bulgarian Чипровско въстание / Tschiprowsko wastanie ) was an uprising of the Bulgarian population in the region around Tschiprovzi north of the Balkan Mountains against the Ottoman rule, which had lasted almost 300 years .
The uprising broke out in 1688 after the imperial troops under the command of Max Emanuel took Belgrade on September 6, 1688 . It was organized by the descendants of Catholic miners from Saxony and Bulgarian Catholics, as well as supported by the Orthodox population. Tschiprovzi and the surrounding towns had around 6000 inhabitants at that time. The eight insurgent divisions under the captains Marinov, Stanislavov, Andreinin and others numbered a few hundred fighters each. After the next Turkish garrison was attacked and destroyed, the Sofioter Beglerbegs and its Hungarian ally Emmerich Thököly counterattacked . The Baschibosuken and irregular troops deployed caused slaughter among the population and destroyed the towns of Tschiprowzi, Schelesna, Klisura and Kopilowzi. At least a thousand people were killed, "two thousand boys and women enslaved" (as Knjazhevic reports), and around three thousand residents of the area fled north. With the consent of Emperor Leopold I, they settled north of the Danube, in the Banat , and formed Bulgarian village communities there for centuries, like the so-called Banat Bulgarians who lived there until the 20th century .
One of the organizers was Bishop Petar Bogdan , who wrote the first history of Bulgaria and who died as archbishop of Bulgaria, who died in Moldova and Wallachia.
One of Cardinal Buonvisi's confidants played an important role as an officer during the uprising: he came from the Tschiprover family Markanic and was called the "Bulgarian Count Marciano" after a comment by the former Queen Christine of Sweden .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Geier: Bulgaria between West and East from the 7th to the 20th century: socially and culturally-historically significant epochs, events and shapes in volume 32 of the studies of the Research Center East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001, pp. 120 ff .