Ohrid Debar uprising

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The flag of the Ohrid insurgents with the flag of Bulgaria and the inscription freedom or death
The Tscheta of Petar Tschaulew with the flag of the rebels Ohrid

The Ohrid-Debar Uprising ( Macedonian Охридско-Дебарско востание , Bulgarian Охридско-Дебърско въстание ) was a revolt in September 1913 in the west of the region Vardar Macedonia in 1913 against the new Serbian government. It took place two months after the end of the Second Balkan War in the region around Debar , Struga and Ohrid .

In Bulgarian historiography, the uprising is presented as a “joint action by the Bulgarian and Albanian people against the Serbian regime”, organized by the Inner Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (VMORO) and by Petar Tschaulew and other VMORO activists ( Milan Matow , Pawel Christow , Anton Schibakow ). In contrast, the historian Katrin Boeckh speaks of an "Albanian revolt", the "real initiators" of which were Albanian insurgents and which was triggered by the incursion of Albanian troops into Serbian territory. The VMORO militants only used this opportunity to incite the Albanian population against the Serbian rule and to intervene on the side of them.

After two weeks of fighting against the 100,000-strong regular Serbian army, the uprising was bloodily suppressed. According to reports from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace International Commission , many Bulgarian intellectuals have been arrested or shot and a number of villages have been burned to the ground. Over 25,000 Albanians fled to Albania and over 30,000 Bulgarians to Bulgaria.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Military History Museum of Bulgaria
  2. ↑ Katrin Boeckh: From the Balkan Wars to the First World War. Small State Policy and Ethnic Self-Determination in the Balkans. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1996, including dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich 1994/95, ISBN 3-486-56173-1 , pp. 188-189.
  3. ^ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Ed.): Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars. Washington, DC 1914, p. 182. ( Online )

literature

  • Димитър Гоцев (Dimitri Gozev): Национално-освободителната борба в Македония 1912 - 1915.Sofia 1981.