Voivode

Vasil Adzhalarski
Image of Vasil Adzhalarski.
Native name
Васил Аджаларски
Birth nameVasil Stoyanov Staykov
Васил Стоянов Стайков
Born24 December 1880
Adzhalari, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now the Republic of North Macedonia)
Died14 November 1909 (aged 28)
Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now the Republic of North Macedonia)
Allegiance IMRO
Years of service1903-1909
Battles/wars

Vasil Stoyanov Staykov (December 24, 1880 – November 14, 1909) known as Vasil Adzhalarski, was a revolutionary from Macedonia,[1][2] an Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) leader of revolutionary bands in the regions of Skopje and Kumanovo.

Biography

Vasil Stoyanov was born in 1880 in the village of Adzhalari, in the Sanjak of Üsküp of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). He received his nickname after this village, which is now known as Miladinovci. In 1901 he moved with his family in Skopje. He entered IMARO and realized a series of tasks for the Organization – he carried post, hid and purchased weapons, but he was arrested and spent two years in the prison Kuršumli An. He got released after an amnesty. In 1903, he became an revolutionary and at first he was an assistant of the band leader Sande Čolakot in Kumanovo. Later, he entered the revolutionary band of Bobi Stoychev and after that he himself became a leader, in the regions of Skopska Crna Gora and Blatija, under the supervision of Dame Martinov. Adzhalarski distinguished himself from the other freedom fighters with the assassination of several Muslim beys who were suppressing the local inhabitants.

Skopje district detachment with its commander Adzhalarski.

In 1905, Vasil Adzhalarski became a regional leader of the Skopje region. From the end of 1904 until 1908 his revolutionary band conducted more than 10 massive battles with the Turkish military. Adzhalarski also took several successful actions against the armed Serbian propaganda. As a response to the murders of seven Macedonians from the Chair neighborhood by a Serbian band, he killed 9 Serbomans in Brodec, after which the Serbian bands ceased this type of actions. In February 1907, he burned the Han in the village of Sopishte, that served as a base for the traverse of the Serbian bands to the region of Porece.

After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, he was no more a freedom fighter, but he was killed in an ambush by the Ottoman authorities in Skopje in 1909.[3] His funeral was a reason for a massive protests by the Bulgarians from the region of Skopje against the authorities.

Bulgarian postcard depicting the revolutionary band of Vasil Adzhalarski after the Young Turk Revolution.
A letter from the Serbian activist Bogdan Radenković announcing the death of the voivode Adzhalarski.

In 1918, Ivan Snegarov wrote the following about Vasil Adzhalarski:

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893 – 1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 24 -25.
  2. ↑ Георгиев, Величко, Стайко Трифонов, История на българите 1878 – 1944 в документи, том 1 1878 – 1912, част втора, стр. 475 – 481., „Българските революционни чети в Македония според доклад на А. Тошев до министъра на външните работи и изповеданията Д. Станчов“.
  3. ↑ Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978.
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