The City of Prilep marked the 95th anniversary of the killing of Gjorce Petrov, a leading Macedonian revolutionary who fought against the Ottoman Empire.
Revolutionary Gjorce Petrov, born in the Prilep area of Varos, helped organize branches of the VMRO movement all throughout Macedonia and is the author of a book on the geo-political characteristics of the Macedonian region.
"Gjorce Petrov's ideals are now carried by a new generation of Macedonians who work for an independent and sovereign Macedonian country, for greater economic prosperity and for its Euro-Atlantic orientation and integration",said Prilep Mayor Marjan Risteski.
Risteski was accompanied by representatives of civic groups in visiting Petrov's ancestral home in Varos, his monument in downtown Prilep and the school which bears his name. Gjorce Petrov was born in 1865 and was assassinated in Sofia in 1921.
Expelled from the high school in Thessaloniki for his views regarding independent Macedonia, Petrov took part in the anti-Ottoman movement in contemporary Bulgaria, and later worked as teacher and VMRO organizer in Macedonia. He represented the VMRO in Sofia, and during the Ilinden Uprising he fought in the area of Prilep with his unit.
After the uprising failed, Gjorce Petrov continued his work, both as a military organizer and political activist and educator. He wrote the Materials on the Study of Macedonia in 1896, in which he explains the geography, politics, economics and culture of Macedonia.