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2 unusual facts about Ilinden


Ilinden Peak

The feature is "named after the settlement of Ilinden in Southwestern Bulgaria, in connection with the 1903 Bulgarian uprising of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie for the liberation of Macedonia and Odrin (Adrianople) Thrace".

Makaza

Makaza–Nymfaia is the sixth functioning border checkpoint between Bulgaria and Greece, along with KulataPromachonas, IlindenExochi, ZlatogradThermes, IvaylovgradKyprinos, and SvilengradOrmenio.


Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales

Hales was not content to be merely a writer of fiction, he went to Bulgaria and fought in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Turks in 1903 in the band of general Ivan Tsonchev - the leader of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

Hadzhidimovo

The municipality is crossed by the II-19 highway from Gotse Delchev, Koprivlen, and Sadovo to the Greek border at Ilinden.

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising

In October, Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary and Nicholas II of Russia met at Mürzsteg and sponsored the Mürzsteg program of reforms, which provided for foreign policing of the Macedonia region, financial compensation for victims, and establishment of ethnic boundaries in the region.

Ivan Apostolov

During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he participated with his revolutionary band in the attack on the Turkish garrison in the village of Obidim, together with Yane Sandanski, Mihail Chakov, Stoyan Malchankov and Nikola Gruychin.

Kiryak Shkurtov

During the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising he participated in the battle in the village Visheni, in the capture of Klisura, in the campaigns of the insurrectional forces in Kolonya and in other fights.

Rezovo

In 1903, the residents of Rezovo took an active part in the Bulgarian Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, seeking unification with their compatriots in the Principality of Bulgaria.


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