Georgi Atsev
Male, Deceased Person
1884 – 1906
Who was Georgi Atsev?
Georgi Atsev, known as Goga, was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a worker of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Prilep region. In the Republic of Macedonia he is considered an Ethnic Macedonian.
Georgi Atsev was born in 1884 in a small village of Oreovec, then part of the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He worked as a teacher in the Tikveš region. He joined the IMARO after the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, in which his brothers Mirche and Petar took part as voyvodas. At the beginning, during the winter of 1904, he was a freedom fighter in his brother Peter’s revolutionary band, and later in 1905 he became a leader of his own revolutionary band. Atsev had a number of battles against Turkish soldiers and bands of the Serbian and Greek propaganda in Macedonia.
In September 1905, in the village of Polog, he defeated a Greek andart band composed of 10 members from Crete and 15 militia-men from the local Grecoman villages.
In the summer of 1906, he was betrayed, when he performed an act of revenge in the village of Krapa, and his band was attacked by the Serboman band of Gligor Sokolovic.
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- Born
- 1884
Prilep Municipality - Died
- Jun 25, 1906
Makedonski Brod Municipality
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on July 23, 2013
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