Metody Patchev

Metody Patchev
Born	May 7, 1875 Ohrid, Ottoman Empire (today Republic of Macedonia)
Died	April 7, 1902 Kadino Selo, Ottoman Empire (today Republic of Macedonia)

Metody Patchev (Bulgarian: Методи Патчев; Macedonian: Методија Патчев) (May 7, 1875 - April 7, 1902) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, vojvoda of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.^[1][2][3] In the Republic of Macedonia he is regarded an ethnic Macedonian.

He was born in Ohrid, Ottoman Macedonia. As young guy he moved to Plovdiv, Bulgaria to apply for work in a leather production company. Later he arrived back to Ohrid and became a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher in 1896.^[4] Metody also known as Metodija applied himself in a secret society known then as Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC)^[5] In 1898 Metodija together with Hristo Uzunov and Kiril Parlichev assassinated a pro-Serbian activist in Ohrid. Later he was caught by the Ottoman authorities and arrested. He stayed in prison until 1901. After his release he applied as a teacher in the town of Prilep, but was unsuccessful due to his times in prison previously. Later in rejoining the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization he became involved in a cheta group under the command of Marko Lerinski.^[6] On the 7th of April, 1902 he entered the village of Kadino Selo with six other revolutionaries unaware of the situation in Kadino Selo he went into an ambush. The Ottoman troops within the village, were under attack from a small group of revolutionaries. After fierce fighting in the village and surrounds, Metodija killed his friends and committed suicide.^[7][8]

References

1. ^ Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, LIT Verlag Münster, 2009, ISBN 3825813878, pp. 132-136.
2. ^ "Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него",Коста Църнушанов, Унив. изд. "Св. Климент Охридски", София, 1992
3. ^ The Macedoine, "The National Question in Yugoslavia. Origins, History, Politics", by Ivo Banac, Cornell University Press, 1984.
4. ^ Симеон Радев - Ранни спомени, Изд. къща Стрелец, София, 1994, стр 71.
5. ^ Encyclopedia of the age of imperialism, 1800-1914, Carl Cavanagh Hodge, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 0313334048, p. 442.
6. ^ Освободителните борби на Македония,I,стр.71,Хр. Силянов
7. ^ Писма и изповеди на един четник,XXVI,Хр.Силянов,1902 г.
8. ^ Николов, Борис. „Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893 – 1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник”. София, 2001, стр. 125.

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Name	Patchev, Metody
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Date of birth	May 7, 1875
Place of birth	Ohrid, Ottoman Empire (today Republic of Macedonia)
Date of death	April 7, 1902
Place of death	Kadino Selo, Ottoman Empire (today Republic of Macedonia)