Marko Lerinski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMarko Lerinski
Bulgarian revolutionary
Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1862
Place of Birth: Kotel, Sliven Province, Bulgaria
Date of Death: 13-Jun-1902
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Marko Lerinski
- Marko Lerinski (Bulgarian: ????? ????????, "Marko of Lerin"; 20 June 1862 – 13 June 1902) was the nickname of Georgi Ivanov Gyurov (?????? ?????? ?????), also known as Georgi Geroyski or Marko Voyvoda, a Bulgarian military man and revolutionary.
- A prominent member of the Internal Macedonian–Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), Lerinski was the first person to propose a common anti-Ottoman uprising in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace. Gyurov was born in Kotel in Ottoman Rumelia, today a town in central eastern Bulgaria.
- In 1883, he joined the Principality of Bulgaria's armed forces.
- He took part in the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885.
- For his bravery, he was awarded a medal and promoted; his comrades even nicknamed him Geroyski (????????), "heroic".
- In 1895, he left the Bulgarian Army to join the Supreme Macedonian–Adrianople Committee and take part in its 1895 organized anti-Ottoman action, which involved the burning of Dospat.
- After the action's failure, he returned to the army as a non-commissioned officer. In 1900, he got in contact with revolutionaries Gotse Delchev and Gyorche Petrov, who recruited him in IMARO.
- They dispatched him as a regional leader (voivode) in the Lerin region (today Florina, Greece), where his nickname comes from.
- Other IMARO voivodes from the Principality of Bulgaria, such as Hristo Chernopeev, were also recruited at the time.
- Thanks to Lerinski's military training and his organizational abilities, his armed detachment became what was essentially a school for voivodes and members for the entire IMARO.
- According to fellow IMARO member and writer Hristo Silyanov, Marko Lerinski turned Lerin into "...
- a region of model in every respect.
- Enthustiastic activists, strict organization, a disciplined and, in the full sense of the words, propagandist and organizational detachment.
- That was all the work of Marko from Kotel."Marko Lerinski was the first person to suggest a common uprising in both Macedonia and South Thrace (the region of Edirne), an idea that would be put into practice with the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903.
- However, he did not live to witness the uprising.
- After his detachment's location was reported to the Ottoman authorities, Lerinski died in a battle with Ottoman forces near Patele (Agios Panteleimonas, Florina) on 13 June 1902.
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