Milan Arsov

Milan Arsov
Milan Arsov
Born	1884; Oraovec, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	1908; Murzuk, Fezzan, Ottoman Empire

Milan Arsov (Bulgarian: Милан Арсов) was a Bulgarian revolutionary - anarchist, member of Gemidziite and one of the Boatmen of Thessaloniki.^[1]^[2]^[3] In North Macedonia he is considered Macedonian.^[4]^[5]

Biography

Milan Arsov was born in Oraovec, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). He studied in the Bulgarian gymnasium in Thessaloniki "Sts. Cyril and Methodius"^[6] and Bitola Bulgarian Exarchate gymnasium but did not graduate it.^[7]

In Thessaloniki he joined the anarchist brotherhood, called the Gemidzii and became part of it. As such he participated in assassinations in Salonika in 1903. On April 15, 1903 Dimitar Mechev, Ilija Trachkov and Milan Arsov detonated the railway line Thessaloniki - Istanbul. The blast damaged several cars and the locomotive, but the passengers ware not hurt. The next day Arsov threw a bomb in front of the hotel "Alhambra". Arsov was one of four survivors from the Gemidzhii, who were put on trial from a military court. Along with Pavel Shatev, Georgi Bogdanov and Marko Boshnakov they were sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he along with other assassins had been sent to Fezzan in Sahara.

He died of tuberculosis on June 8, 1908 in Murzuk,^[8]^[9] but his skull was returned to Macedonia by Pavel Shatev and Georgi Bogdanov.

References

^ "In 1898 a group named the Boatmen of Thessaloniki was formed and acted in the spirit of propaganda by the deed: the group's members, of Bulgarian origin, carried out deadly attacks against targets including the city's Ottoman bank, hotels, a theater, and light and gas pipes. Nearly all of the group's members were executed." Antonios Vradis and Dimitrios K. Dalakoglou, Anarchism, Greece in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Volume 8, Set: 1500 to the Present with Immanuel Ness as ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, ISBN 1405184647.
^ "The Boatmen of Thessaloniki were an anarcho-nationalist, pan-Slavic influenced Bulgarian militant group, active in Thessaloniki between 1898 and 1903." Nicholas Apoifis, Anarchy in Athens: An ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence, Contemporary Anarchist Studies MUP Series, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 1526108038, Bullets, bombs and boatmen in 1900s.
^ Megas, Y. (1994) The Boatmen of Thessaloniki: The Anarchist Bulgarian Group and the Bombing Actions of 1903. Athens: Trochalia (in Greek), ISBN 9789607022479.
^ Stefan Troebst sees the Macedonian process of nation building as a perfect example of Gellner's theory of nationalism. Since the foundation of the Yugoslav Macedonia this construction was conducted in haste and hurry: “National language, national literature, national history and national church were not available in 1944, but they were accomplished in a short time. The south-east-Slavic regional idiom of the area of Prilep-Veles was codified as the script, normed orthographically by means of the Cyrillic Alphabet, and taken over immediately by the newly created media. And the people have been patching up the national history ever since. Thus, they are forming more of an “ethnic” than a political concept of nation. For more, see: One Macedonia With Three Faces: Domestic Debates and Nation Concepts, in Intermarium; Columbia University; Volume 4, No. 3 (2000–2001) and Stefan Troebst, "Makedonische Antworten auf die ‘Makedonische Frage" 1944-1992: Nationalismus, Republiksgründung, nation-building in Südosteuropa, 7-8/1992, 431.
^ According to Leslie Benson in Yugoslav Macedonia: The past was systematically falsified to conceal the fact that many prominent 'Macedonians' had supposed themselves to be Bulgarian, and generations of students were taught that "pseudo-history" of the 'Macedonian nation. The mass media and education system were the keys to this process of national acculturation, speaking to people in a language that they came to regard as their 'Macedonian' mother tongue, even it was perfectly understood in Sofia. For more see: L. Benson, Yugoslavia: A Concise History, Edition 2, Springer, 2003, ISBN 1403997209, p. 89.
^ Списание "L'Illustration", от 27.V.1903 г., цитирано по Павел Шатев, „В Македония под робство“
^ Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Скопие, 2009, стр. 85.
^ Кратки биографии на атентаторите
^ Мариан Гяурски, „Анархизмът в македоно-одринското националнореволюционно движение: Солунските атентатори“ Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "In 1898 a group named the Boatmen of Thessaloniki was formed and acted in the spirit of propaganda by the deed: the group's members, of Bulgarian origin, carried out deadly attacks against targets including the city's Ottoman bank, hotels, a theater, and light and gas pipes. Nearly all of the group's members were executed." Antonios Vradis and Dimitrios K. Dalakoglou, Anarchism, Greece in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Volume 8, Set: 1500 to the Present with Immanuel Ness as ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, ISBN 1405184647.

[2] "The Boatmen of Thessaloniki were an anarcho-nationalist, pan-Slavic influenced Bulgarian militant group, active in Thessaloniki between 1898 and 1903." Nicholas Apoifis, Anarchy in Athens: An ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence, Contemporary Anarchist Studies MUP Series, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 1526108038, Bullets, bombs and boatmen in 1900s.

[3] Megas, Y. (1994) The Boatmen of Thessaloniki: The Anarchist Bulgarian Group and the Bombing Actions of 1903. Athens: Trochalia (in Greek), ISBN 9789607022479.

[4] Stefan Troebst sees the Macedonian process of nation building as a perfect example of Gellner's theory of nationalism. Since the foundation of the Yugoslav Macedonia this construction was conducted in haste and hurry: “National language, national literature, national history and national church were not available in 1944, but they were accomplished in a short time. The south-east-Slavic regional idiom of the area of Prilep-Veles was codified as the script, normed orthographically by means of the Cyrillic Alphabet, and taken over immediately by the newly created media. And the people have been patching up the national history ever since. Thus, they are forming more of an “ethnic” than a political concept of nation. For more, see: One Macedonia With Three Faces: Domestic Debates and Nation Concepts, in Intermarium; Columbia University; Volume 4, No. 3 (2000–2001) and Stefan Troebst, "Makedonische Antworten auf die ‘Makedonische Frage" 1944-1992: Nationalismus, Republiksgründung, nation-building in Südosteuropa, 7-8/1992, 431.

[5] According to Leslie Benson in Yugoslav Macedonia: The past was systematically falsified to conceal the fact that many prominent 'Macedonians' had supposed themselves to be Bulgarian, and generations of students were taught that "pseudo-history" of the 'Macedonian nation. The mass media and education system were the keys to this process of national acculturation, speaking to people in a language that they came to regard as their 'Macedonian' mother tongue, even it was perfectly understood in Sofia. For more see: L. Benson, Yugoslavia: A Concise History, Edition 2, Springer, 2003, ISBN 1403997209, p. 89.

[6] Списание "L'Illustration", от 27.V.1903 г., цитирано по Павел Шатев, „В Македония под робство“

[7] Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Скопие, 2009, стр. 85.

[8] Кратки биографии на атентаторите

[9] Мариан Гяурски, „Анархизмът в македоно-одринското националнореволюционно движение: Солунските атентатори“ Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

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