Yane Sandanski - Macedonian revolutionist from Pirin Macedonia
Yane Ivanov Sandanski was born in the village of Vlahi near Melnik on 28 of May 1872. His father Ivan participated as a flag carrier in the well known Kresna Uprising.
Yane Sandanski is a big Macedonian revolutionist, and one of the leaders of the Macedonian National Revolutionary Movement. Since the start of his revolutionary activity, he became well known because he protected the villager's from the tyranny. He organised national courts, and he also organised the people for a self-defence.
Sandanski lived and fought in the Pirin region, and that is why the people gave him the name "Pirin Tsar" (Pirinski Car). He was also active in the Ilinden Uprising, and in 1908, he supported the young Turkish revolution with the vision for the freedom of the Macedonian people.
Soon after that, the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand
labelled Yane Sandanski as the most dangerous
enemy against the great Bulgarian interests
(Macedonia to be under Bulgaria). In the
same year, an unsuccessful assassination
was attempted on Yane Sandanski by paid
killers who were sent by Ferdinand. These
paid killers tried again to assassinate
Yane on 15 August 1909, where he was only
wounded.
With the expulsion of the Turks', Macedonia
was partitioned between Serbia, Bulgaria
and Greece. Sandanski remained in hiding
on Mt. Pirin and planned to assassin Tsar
Ferdinand but on the 22 April 1915, while
on his way from Melnik to Nevrokop near
the Rozenski Monastery, paid killers sent
by Ferdinand, hidden attacked him from behind
and succeeded to kill him.
Yane Sandanski the Pirin
Tsar
The murder of Yane Sandanski
Yane Sandanski (1872-1915) was Macedonian
revolutionary from Pirin Macedonia.
From 1899 he cooperated with Goce Delcev,
and held the positions of the duke of Melnik
and a president of the Comity of the Ser
area. He persistently fought against the
intrusions of vrhovists from Bulgaria and
andartas from Greece.
Rozen Monastery
After the establishing of
the constitutional regime in Turkey, he
advocated the cooperation with the Young
Turks in regard to solving the agrarian
question, democratization of Turkey and
establishing of local government units with
schools in the mother language of the people.
In 1909 with his regiment he participated
in the successful intervention against the
contrarevolution in Turkey.
In constitutional Turkey, Yane was the first
president of the People's Federative Party.
Yane Sandanski, "the Tsar Pirin" was murdered by mercenaries sent by the Bulgarian tsar Ferdinand in 1915.
People transported Yane's
body to the place of the funeral