Milan Arsov (Bulgarian: Милан Арсов) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, anarchist and a member of Boatmen of Thessaloniki (Gemidziite).[1][2][3]
Milan Arsov | |
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| Born | 1884 Oraovec, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1908 Murzuk, Fezzan, Ottoman Empire |
Biography
editMilan Arsov was born in Oraovec, in the Kosovo vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). He studied in the Bulgarian gymnasium in Thessaloniki "Sts. Cyril and Methodius"[4] and Bitola Bulgarian Exarchate gymnasium but did not graduate.[5]
He joined the anarchist brotherhood in Thessaloniki (called the Gemidzii) and became part of it. As such he participated in assassinations in Salonika in 1903. On April 15, 1903 Dimitar Mechev, Ilija Trachkov and Milan Arsov detonated the railway line Thessaloniki - Istanbul. The blast damaged several cars and the locomotive, but the passengers were not hurt. The next day Arsov threw a bomb in front of the hotel "Alhambra". Arsov was one of four survivors from the Gemidzhii, who were put on trial by a military court. Along with Pavel Shatev, Georgi Bogdanov, and Marko Boshnakov they were sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he along with other assassins had been sent to Fezzan in Sahara.
He died of tuberculosis on June 8, 1908 in Murzuk,[6][7] but his skull was returned to Macedonia by Pavel Shatev and Georgi Bogdanov.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "In 1898 a group named the Boatmen of Thessaloniki was formed and acted in the spirit of propaganda by the deed: the group's members, of Bulgarian origin, carried out deadly attacks against targets including the city's Ottoman bank, hotels, a theater, and light and gas pipes. Nearly all of the group's members were executed." Antonios Vradis and Dimitrios K. Dalakoglou, Anarchism, Greece in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Volume 8, Set: 1500 to the Present with Immanuel Ness as ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, ISBN 1405184647.
- ^ "The Boatmen of Thessaloniki were an anarcho-nationalist, pan-Slavic influenced Bulgarian militant group, active in Thessaloniki between 1898 and 1903." Nicholas Apoifis, Anarchy in Athens: An ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence, Contemporary Anarchist Studies MUP Series, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 1526108038, Bullets, bombs and boatmen in 1900s.
- ^ Megas, Y. (1994) The Boatmen of Thessaloniki: The Anarchist Bulgarian Group and the Bombing Actions of 1903. Athens: Trochalia (in Greek), ISBN 9789607022479.
- ^ Списание "L'Illustration", от 27.V.1903 г., цитирано по Павел Шатев, „В Македония под робство“
- ^ Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Скопие, 2009, стр. 85.
- ^ Кратки биографии на атентаторите
- ^ Мариан Гяурски, „Анархизмът в македоно-одринското националнореволюционно движение: Солунските атентатори“ Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine