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Revision as of 17:23, 14 August 2004 by 62.162.233.119 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Or Gotze Delchev, a Macedonian revolutionary, co-founder and leader of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO), sometimes incorrectly referred to as Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO), the organisation which succeeded IMARO after WWI. Born in Kukush, Aegean Macedonia (now Kilkis, northern Greece), Delcev collaborated to the foundation of IMARO in Thessaloniki in 1895. Delcev was a champion of Macedonian autonomy and independence. He accepted and preached the principle "Macedonia for the Macedonians" opposing the attempts of Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece to annex the region. The goal of IMARO while led by Delcev was to bring freedom to all Macedonians - irrespective whether they were Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Vlach, Albanian or Jewish (Ladino) - by means of an internal insurrection. Delcev died in May 1903 in a skirmish with the Turkish police near the village of Banica, Serres region while preparing an uprising in Macedonia.