Skopje, 4 February 2024 (MIA) – Sunday marks the 152nd anniversary from the birth of revolutionary Goce Delchev. On the occasion, numerous delegations will lay wreaths at his grave in the Skopje-based church St.Spas.

President Stevo Pendarovski, a Parliament delegation led by Vice-Speaker Goran Misovski and a Government delegation led by First Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Marichikj will lay wreaths at Delchev’s grave in St. Spas. A Government delegation will also lay a wreath at the Goce Delchev monument in the City Park.

Goce Delchev, the visionary who over a century ago said he understood the world as an arena for nations to compete in culture, was born to Sultana and Nikola Delchevi in Kukush on Feb. 4, 1872. After attending the Thessaloniki High School, he graduated from the Sofia Military Academy.

Delchev worked as a schoolmaster in Shtip. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Secret Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, founding a network of bases, committees, and rebel bands.

He participated in the 1896 Thessaloniki Congress of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and served as its representative in Sofia until 1901.

On May 4, 1903, Delchev was killed by the Turkish army in the village of Banica, on his way to Serres.

His remains have been kept in the St. Spas church in Skopje since 1946.

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