The Greek Revolution of 1878 in Macedonia

[Ptolemy]

More myths created by Skopje are shattered by the following passages:

1) Again, the claim that there was not a Greek movement for liberation from Turkey is a complete lie.

2) The claim that there were no Greeks in Monastiri (Bitolia) is also a complete lie.

From the book: ‘Macedonia, The Macedonian Struggle, Greece-Macedonia 4000 Years’, Copyright 1992 by Aegean Publications, page 94:



The [Greek] revolution [against the Ottoman Empire] in Macedonia had started in 1878 from [Litohoro] Olympus and spread all over West and North Macedonia. On Mt. Olympus it was sunk in blood [by the Turks] wheras in all other regions it developed, got settled, and prevailed. The Macedonian countryside had been liberated, and in the urban centers, the Turkish army panicked and would not get out of their barracks…The war-chiefs had reached all the way up to Krousovo and Perlepe. Centers could be found in Bourino, Grammos, Mouriki, Siniatsiko, Vitsi, Prespes, Peristeri, Morihovo, Tikfes, and Demir Kapon. They threatened to disperse every authority and Ottoman domination even in Monastiri. In 1878 they almost entered Kastoria. In 1881 they stepped in Florina. In the territory of Morihovo…the capital city was Gradenitsa, which was later burned by the [Bulgarian] komitatzis. In Monastiri in 1878, the first organized revolutionary group appeared which decided to go up into the mountains…All these war chiefs had lain their weapons before the feet of the Greek consulate in Monastiri [and the Greek Consul Petros Logothetis] to be registered by, taken care of, and disposed of by Hellenism.

Below is an original letter written by Greek Consul General in Monastiri to the Greek Government in Athens. Page 102:



The Greek Consul in Monastiri, Petros Logothetis, writes to the Greek government that the local chiefs of arms had placed their arms at his disposal. This proves that the action was purely Greek.

This whole movement was started by Evangelos Korovangos and was secretly aided by Konstantinos Vatikiotis who was the General Consul of Greece in Thessaloniki from 1866 - 1881.



http://history-of-macedonia.com/word...-in-macedonia/

[Ptolemy]

London Times 12 March 1878



London Times 22 March 1878



London Times 23 March 1878

[stelio_]

thanx

[akritas]

The Macedonian uprising in 1878
Protocol Number 1
To: The V[enerable] Governments of the European Powers

The years of suffering, of which the venerable governments have been made aware via their representatives, and which have intensified lately, have forced the inhabitants of Macedonia to take up arms, so that they might protect their life, their honour and their property...

Convening on this day, the representatives of the various communities in Macedonia have overthrown the tyrannical Rule of the Sultan, proclaimed the union of Macedonia with mother Greece and elected us to form the provisional revolutionary Government, with the obligation that we address the Christian powers and seek their powerful protection for the justness of our struggle, and their mercy for our women and children, who are in peril from Turkish ferocity...

We are convinced that the concern of the European powers for the future of the East will extend to all of Macedonia, which is prepared if necessary to submit itself to fire and devastation for its freedom and for its union with mother Greece, rather than to remain enslaved to the ignominious power whose instruments, the Circassians, Ghegs, Zeibeks and Bashibazouks, have laid waste to our Country and desecrated the honour and sanctity of our family homeland...

All the obligations and promises this power has undertaken vis-ΰ-vis its subjects and the Great Powers have to date proved perfidious and deceitful. The Turkish government has many times conceded rights, but tyranny has not for a moment abated; on the contrary, our sufferings have become endless and ever more terrible, for that government is becoming slacker and being reduced to nothing. It is for that reason that we have been forced to resort to arms, that we may at least die as human beings and as Greeks, if we are not to be allowed to live as rational, free human beings...

At Litochoro, Olympus, on 19th February 1878
The provisional government of Macedonia
E. I. Korovangos, President

[E. Kofos, I epanastasis tis Makedonias to 1878 [The Macedonian uprising in 1878], Institute for Balkan Studies: Thessaloniki 1969, annex.]

[Truth Bearer]

By the way this the article is the highest ranked read of all our articles Akritas.I think we are on to something here maybe the poor skops are in shock about the truth.Can we have more articles about our revolts in Macedonia one with papas another in the 1840's also.....we must post them akritas these are the winners mate!

[Truth Bearer]

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/81652

[akritas]

Originally Posted by Truth Bearer

By the way this the article is the highest ranked read of all our articles Akritas.I think we are on to something here maybe the poor skops are in shock about the truth.Can we have more articles about our revolts in Macedonia one with papas another in the 1840's also.....we must post them akritas these are the winners mate!

I have the Vakalopoulos book that described in an excellent documentary account the Greek revolt in Olympus and in Westerm Macedonia. Stay tune.

[kostas68]

Originally Posted by Truth Bearer

By the way this the article is the highest ranked read of all our articles Akritas.I think we are on to something here maybe the poor skops are in shock about the truth.Can we have more articles about our revolts in Macedonia one with papas another in the 1840's also.....we must post them akritas these are the winners mate!

The Greek revolution of 1821 in the Macedonian regions of Halkidiki,Veria and Naousa,from Thomas Gordon's <History of the Greek revolution>.Emmanouil Papas(from Serres),Hapsas(from Halkidiki),Diamantis(from Pieria),Karatasos(from Veria),Gatsos(from Edessa) and Zaphirakis(from Naousa),some of the most notable Greek revolutionaries from Macedonia:





















A letter of Alexandros Ypsilantis to Emmanouil Papas:


A letter of Dimitrios Ypsilantis to the sons of Emmanouil Papas:


The tombstone of Emmanouil Papas in the island of Hydra:

[Ptolemy]

Add also these:

http://history-of-macedonia.com/word...dence-in-1821/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/word...acedonia-1821/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/word...s-around-1829/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/word...ek-revolution/

http://history-of-macedonia.com/word...donia-of-1878/

[kostas68]

Some articles of the NY Times mentioning the Greek insurrection in Macedonia in 1878: