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:: THE CHILDHOOD & EARLY
YOUNGNESS ::... Goce
Delčev (or Delchev), was born on February 4th year 1872 in Kukuš,
Aegean Macedonia (today it's renamed into Kilkis). He was from patriotic Macedonian family, who gave more
revolutionaries. His Father was Nikola Delčev and his mother Sultana Delčeva.
He finished the primary school in the native place Kukuš. Later he worked
temporary in his father's restaurant and in a small market place. Then he sign
in the Male Secondary School in Solun (Thessaloniki). He lived in boarding
school. He was wonderful and excellent student. He read a lot of books with
socialistic, revolutionary and philosophic contents. He was a member of the
Secret School Revolutionary Membership.
 In the summer 1891 he went in the military school in
the Bulgarian capital, Sophia. In the period of three
years spent in the military school, he read a lot of books with socialist and revolutionary
content. In September 1894, he was expelled from his
school activities. Actually, he finished his studies, with a diploma, but
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:: THE REVOLUTIONARY ART OF GOCE DELčEV
::... Goce Delčev was a patriot, who wanted, spend
and gave his
life to the national-liberation struggle for independence of Macedonia.
In the spring 1894 he went
to work as an teacher in
Štip,
where Dame Gruev was already one. At here he immediately became member of the
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and took part in the activity if spreading
the organization network in the Macedonian cities. In those places Delčev
created healthy and strong bases of the Macedonian Organization, created routes
and puncts for transport of weapons. munitions and literature. By crossing from
one to another place he established everywhere local committees of the
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
 In
the autumn in 1896, Goce Delčev moved to Banjsko, near Razlog, (Pirin part
of
Macedonia-Bulgaria), where he worked again as a teacher. Here he didn't stop with the
revolutionary work. His teacher's work was just a mask to all of that. While he
was in Štip and later in Banjsko, after the school work he was the organizing of
the revolutionary work. Leaving the school rooms, he always was travel in the
neighboring cities, where he had to put new members of the Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization. And after a long period the Organization started to
visit the villages. The Sunday's schools for addults, the churches and
monastery yards were perfect spots for spreading the network of the Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization. Thanks to Goce, the membership of the
organization started to grow up fast. By this activities the feeling of being a
one nation - the Macedonian, could be felt of every heart of every Macedonian,
and that is time to get the more centuries occupier, the Turks out of here. In
the spring of the year 1895, Goce made crosses to the bigger and well known
Macedonian cities in that period, like
Veles,
Solun, Kukuš,
Dojran,
Strumica,
Radoviš and in all of the villages near them. In those places, Delčev
established local committees of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and
added more new members to the organization. One of the most important is the
work of Goce Delčev in the next summer 1896, when in Solun was the congress
of the organization. Together with Gorče Pertov they worked on the
Constitution and Laws of the organization. Later the organization renames to
Secret Macedonian-Odrin Revolutionary Organization (SMORO). In the constitution
contained by 19 articles in for heads, can be followed the political programme
of the Macedonian liberation art. The organization is internal Macedonian
including and Odrin which wasn't still liberated from the Ottoman Turks, which is
only one and will be leading with operations for liberation. Building the principle
of souverenity and independence of the organization higher this organization was
proclaimed as an political autonomy of Macedonia and Odrin. In that sense by the
article 1st, SMORO had work to unite all in one, the
unsatisfied population of Macedonia and Odrin, without matter of
nationality, to start a revolution and the start with a
liberation, as in Greece (in 1821) and Serbia (in
1878). In the period of
1896-1901, Goce Delčev joined by Gorče Pertov, was presenter of SMORO
in Bulgaria. Target of this diplomatic mission on the both founders of the
Organization, in Bulgaria was to protect the Macedonian Liberal War from the
vrhovistic committee in Sophia and from the conquering routes of the Bulgarians.
From the year of 1897 until his death, Delčev made again a several crosses
in Macedonia and repeated them. This period in the historic science is known as
"The big route of Goce Delčev in 1901/1902 in central, western and
southern Macedonia, starting from Radoviš, then to the Tikveš
region, in
Prilep,
Bitola, and finishing in Lerin
(Florina) and Kostur (Kastoria). At the beginning
of the year 1903, Delčev with his army crossed the regions of Serez and
Strumica. In April the same year he had a trip to Solun, with a simple target,
to tell Dame Gruev not to start the uprising soon because they are not ready
yet. Because nobody even tried to
listen to him, disappointed
he went back to take part in the
congress of Serez, and probably extradited by someone, was killed by the Turks in
the village of Banica, near Serez (Aegean Macedonia-Greece), on May 4th 1903.
 On way like this the life of the biggest Macedonian
revolutionary hero from this period stops, on age of 31. All of his life he
spent to the liberation war for free Macedonia. In his honor a lot of streets
and public objects are carrying his name GOCE DELČEV. He was a very smart
and educated man. His message how he recognizes the world is very important and
of great meaning for his activities:
"The
world, I understand as a field for cultural competition between the nations."
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