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Jane Sandanski or Yane Ivanov Sandanski (May 18, 1872, Vlahi, present day Bulgaria - April 22, 1915 near Melnik, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia, one of the leaders of BMARC, SMORO and IMARO since 1895. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Jane Sandanski was born in the village of Vlahi near Melnik (present-day Bulgaria) on May 28 1872. His father Ivan participated as a flag carrier in the well known Kresna Uprising. After the crush of the uprising, in 1879 his family moved to Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, where Sandanski received his elementary education. Until 1895 Sandanski was a Bulgarian state employee.
Jane Sandanski was a prominent revolutionary, and one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Movement in Macedonia and Thrace. Since the start of his revolutionary activity, he became well known because he protected the villagers from the tyranny of the Ottomans. He organised courts and taught self-defence. Sandanski lived and fought in the Pirin region, and that is why the people gave him the name "Pirin Tsar" (Pirinski Car). He was also active in the Ilinden Uprising, and in 1908 when he supported the movement of Young Turks. He was one of the leaders of the one of the political parties of Bulgarians in Macedonia in 1909-1910 - Bulgarian People Federative Party which headquarter was in Solun.
With the fall of the Ottoman Empire Macedonia was partitioned between Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Sandanski supported the Bulgarian army in the Balkan wars of 1912-1913.
Sandanski was killed near the Rozhen Monastery on April 22 1915, while travelling from Melnik to Nevrokop.
Jane Sandanski is mentioned in the National Anthem of the Republic of Macedonia as one of the greatest Macedonian heroes whose idea was creating independent Macedonian State. Every year, the ethnic Macedonians from Bulgaria organize meeting and pay respect to Jane Sandanski in front of his grave in Rozhenski Monastery, mentioning him as a warrior and emperor of Pirin, one of the greatest Macedonian heroes and one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - IMRO.
Famous Quotes
- We do not want to replace Turkish tyranny and Turkish sultans with any other tyranny, including Bulgarian tyranny and Bulgarian king. We want independent, free, Macedonia to Macedonians.
- We do not hate Bulgaria and its people but its policy which is against our ideals and interests.
- We need to work in reviving the conscience of Macedonian people as a separate nation, that they have the right on freedom, and that they need to fight for their freedom without relaying on foreign help, because those who come to “free us” will actually enslave us.
- We have our land reform program that is closely related to our political program: the first one is expressed trough demands of allocating the land to the peasants, the second one encompass the goal of creating Macedonia as autonomous province within Ottoman Empire. But most of all, we afraid of our “dear friends” – Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks to come to “liberate us”, for they will come to enchain us.
- Long ago you are regarding our Macedonian-Adrianopole question only as Bulgarian question. The struggle we are on, you consider as the struggle for triumph of the Bulgarian nationality over the others which are living with us ... Let forget henceforth who is Bulgarian, who is Greek, who is Serbian, who is Vlah (i.e. Aromanian), but remember who is underprivileged slave.
- Today all we - Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Arnauts (i.e. Albanians) etc swearing an oath that we will work for our common fatherland (i.e. Ottoman Empire).
- All we are Bulgarians, Taco (i.e. Atanas), but we are killing ourselves for nothing. It is heavy to me...