Mitre the Vlach explained

Honorific Prefix:Voivode
Mitre the Vlach
Birth Date:c. 1873
Death Date:22 February 1907
Birth Place:Konomladi, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Death Place:Zupamishcha, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Placeofburial:Aposkepos, Greece
Birth Name:Mitre Pangiaru
Allegiance: IMRO
Commands:Commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya
Battles:Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
Macedonian Struggle

Mitre Pangiaru, better known as Mitre the Vlach (Bulgarian: Митре Панджаров — Влаха, Macedonian: Митре Панџаров — Влаот), was аn Aromanian revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1]

Life

He was born in 1873 in Konomladi in Ottoman Macedonia.[2] In 1901 he joined IMARO. It was there that he learned to read and write. In May 1903 his band was involved in a skirmish with the Ottoman Army in the village Rulja. During the Ilinden Uprising he took part in the attack on the Ottoman garrison in the village Visheni and in the battle near the village Pisoderi. In April 1904 he formed a new band. He was named commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya, where he fought with Greek bands on a number of occasions.[3]

Betrayal and death

On 22 February 1907, his band was betrayed by Hristo from the village Shesteovo. Near the village Zhupanishta, he was heavily wounded from an unknown attack (likely to be connected with Hristo's betrayal) and died shortly thereafter.[4]

Mitre was buried in the village Aposkep together with his entire band.

Notes and References

  1. The Aromanians and IMRO. Nikola. Minov. Macedonian Historical Review. 2. 2011. 186.
  2. Book: Perry, Duncan M.. The politics of terror: the Macedonian liberation movements, 1893–1903. Duke University Press. 1988. 175. 978-0-8223-0813-3.
  3. Livanios . Dimitris . 'Conquering the Souls': nationalism and Greek guerrilla warfare in Ottoman Macedonia, 1904-1908 .
  4. Livanios . Dimitris . 'Conquering the Souls': nationalism and Greek guerrilla warfare in Ottoman Macedonia, 1904-1908 .