Nikola Karev

Nikola Janakiev Karev (bulgarisch Никола Янакиев Карев, bulgarische Schreibweise bis 1945 Никола Янакиевъ Каревъ, mazedonisch Никола Јанакиев Карев; * 11. Novemberjul. / 23. November 1877greg. in Kruševo, Osmanisches Reich, heute Nordmazedonien; † 14. Apriljul. / 27. April 1905greg. in Rajčani, Osmanisches Reich, heute Nordmazedonien) war ein bulgarisch-makedonischer Revolutionär und lokaler Anführer der Inneren Makedonisch-Adrianopeler Revolutionären Organisation (IMARO). Karev war außerdem Lehrer im Schulsystem des bulgarischen Exarchats in seiner Heimatregion und Mitglied der Bulgarischen Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei. Während des Ilinden-Preobraschenie-Aufstands war er im August 1903 Präsident der kurzlebigen Republik Kruševo. Heute wird er sowohl in Bulgarien als auch in Nordmazedonien als Held angesehen.

  1. Кочо Топузовски: Никола Карев (1877-1905). Патешествија низ документи (zu Dt. Nikola Karew (1877-1905). Reise in Dokumente). Скопје / Skopje 2008, S. 271, 272 (mazedonisch).
  2. Nikola Karev was a Bulgarian revolutionary, narrow socialist and teacher. He was an activist of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan liberation movement and a participant in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising. Siehe: Пелтеков, Александър Г. Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско. Второ допълнено издание. София, Орбел, 2014. ISBN 978-954-496-102-2, стр. 210-211.
  3. From 1900 to 1903, Karev was a teacher at the Bulgarian schools in the village of Gorno Divjaci and in his native Kruševo. Билярски, Цочо. „Никола Карев, Председателят на Крушовската република“, Сите Българи заедно. Jan 31, 2012.
  4. Bulgarians, inspired by the rise of nationalism, began to set up their own national churches and schools independently of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1870 they were also allowed to establish an Exarchate, which, within the framework of the millet system, became more than a mere religious institution, coming to represent the Orthodox Bulgarians as a separate nation in the Ottoman Empire. As such, the Bulgarian Exarchate established a network of national schools where it took care of both religious and secular education of the Orthodox Bulgarians under its jurisdiction. Siehe: Maria Schnitter, Daniela Kalkandjieva, Teaching Religion in Bulgarian Schools in Adam Seligman (ed.) Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, S. 70–95.
  5. In Macedonia, the education race produced the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which organized and carried out the Ilinden Uprising of 1903. Most of IMRO’s founders and principal organizers were graduates of the Bulgarian Exarchate schools in Macedonia, who had become teachers and inspectors in the same system that had educated them. Frustrated with the pace of change, they organized and networked to develop their movement throughout the Bulgarian school system that employed them. The Exarchate schools were an ideal forum in which to propagate their cause, and the leading members were able to circulate to different posts, to spread the word, and to build up supplies and stores for the anticipated uprising. As it became more powerful, IMRO was able to impress upon the Exarchate its wishes for teacher and inspector appointments in Macedonia. Siehe: Julian Brooks, The Education Race for Macedonia, 1878—1903 in The Journal of Modern Hellenism, Vol 31 (2015) S. 23-58.
  6. Aleksandar Pavkovic, Christopher Kelen, Anthems and the Making of Nation States: Identity and Nationalism in the Balkans; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, ISBN 0-85772-642-0, S. 168.