Marko Lerinski
Bulgarian revolutionary (1862–1902)
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Georgi Ivanov Gyurov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Гюров; 20 June 1862 – 13 June 1902), known under the alias Marko Lerinski (Bulgarian: Марко Лерински), was a Bulgarian military officer and revolutionary. He was one of Internal Macedonian–Adrianople Revolutionary Organization's most effective leaders in the Lerin (Florina) district.[1][2]
Георги Иванов Гюров
20 June 1862
Voivode Marko Lerinski | |
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Marko Lerinski c. 1902 | |
| Native name | Марко Лерински |
| Born | Georgi Ivanov Gyurov Георги Иванов Гюров 20 June 1862 |
| Died | 13 June 1902 (aged 39) |
| Buried | Sorovich (now Amyntaio, Greece) |
| Allegiance |  Principality of Bulgaria IMRO |
| Branch |  Bulgarian Army |
| Service years | 1883-1900 |
| Conflicts | |
Life
Georgi Ivanov Gyurov was born on 20 June 1862 in Kotel in Ottoman Rumelia (Northern Thrace), today a town in central eastern Bulgaria.[3][4] 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. In 1895, he participated in Supreme Macedonian–Adrianople Committee, anti-Ottoman action as part of Stoyo Kostov's detachment, which involved an attack on Dospat. After the action, he returned to the army.[3]
He served as a non-commissioned officer until he left the army in 1900.[4] In 1901, he got in contact with Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionaries Gotse Delchev and Gyorche Petrov, who recruited him in IMARO. They dispatched him as a regional leader (voivode) for the Lerin region (today Florina, Greece), where he adopted the alias Marko Lerinski.[3][5] Lerinski created a training center in the Lerin district in the 1900s,[6] where he trained aspiring voivodes.[7] Thanks to Lerinski's military training and his organizational abilities, his detachment became a school for voivodes and members of IMARO.[3][4][8] 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."[9]
Lerinski was the first person to suggest a common uprising in both Macedonia and the Adrianople Vilayet,[3][10] an idea that would be put into practice with the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903. Lerinski died in a clash with Ottoman forces in Patele (Agios Panteleimonas, Florina, Greece) on 13 June 1902.[3] He was buried in Sorovich.[11]