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After
the fall of the Samoil's Macedonian medieval state in 1018, the region was turned
into a Byzantine province. The
high taxes which the Macedonians had to pay to Byzantine and the feudal masters,
were reason for an uprising. Excellent period to start it was in 1040. This
uprising had liberation and anti-feudal character. The leader Petar Deljan, was
a son of the second Macedonian tzar Gavrilo Radomir, the son of
Samoil.
His mother was a Hungarian princess, that Gavrilo Radomir threw out
of the castle, when he fall in love the in the pretty Irene, from Larisa
(city in Thessaly).
Petar Deljan, who was born in Hungary, and in the region
Moravia-Belgrade was welcomed by the organizers of the uprising. After
crowning, Petar Deljan through Ni, entered Macedonia. On the way
to Skopje he was welcomed again as a popular person. A lot of people from
Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia joined the uprising, but their causes were
different; for the Macedonians, Serbians and Bulgarians the uprising had
liberation and anti-feudal character; only for the Greeks was anti-feudal. Soon
there were enough people to start the uprising. In a mean time the people in the
region of Drač (Durres) start an uprising with their leader, the brave soldier
Tihomir. Very soon, near
Debar,
the uprising troops met each other. They should arrange about the only leader of
the uprising. But, soon after the troops found out that about the origin of
Petar Deljan, they killed Tihomir. The nephew of
Samoil,
soon went to attack Solun (Salonica), where was the Byzantine emperor Michail
4th. Afraid of the Macedonian troops he escaped and left Solun. But the uprising
troops failed to conquer Solun. Reason for this was Alusijan, the son of Ivan
Vladislav. As soon as he heard about the uprising in Macedonia, he left the city
Theodosiepolis and went straight to Ostrovo in Macedonia, where the camp of the
uprising troops was located. Petar Deljan gave him 40,000 people to go and
attack Solun (Salonica). But because of wrong strategy he failed to conquer this
city. After he got back in Ostrovo, he blinded Petar Deljan and surrender
himself to the Byzantine emperor. After this meeting of Alusijan and the
Byzantine emperor, the blind Petar Deljan was to poor to fight against the
Byzantines and he was soon discovered by the Byzantine troops and taken to
Constantinople (Caridgrad, Instanbul). After this event there was no brave man,
who could became a leader of the uprising and it finiished in 1041.
"Petar Deljan after his crowning - accepts his relative Alusijan" |
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