Today marks 122 years since the death of Goce Delchev

Today marks the 122th anniversary of the death of the Macedonian revolutionary and freedom fighter Goce Delchev. On this occasion, delegations and citizens will lay flowers in front of Delchev’s tomb in the church of St. Spas, and the State Prize « Goce Delchev » will be awarded in the Parliament of Macedonia for significant achievements in the field of science.

According to announcements, in the church « St. Spas » flowers will pass a parliamentary delegation led by Parliament Vice President Antonio Milososki, which includes MPs Velika Stojkova-Serafimovska, Sanja Lukarevska and Pavle Arsovski, Toskovski and Vesna Janevska, as well as party delegations, associations, citizens….

The State Award « Goce Delchev » will be awarded at noon for 2025 for particularly significant achievements of interest to the Republic of Macedonia in the field of science. The Minister of Education and Science will address the award. Dr. Vesna Janevska.

This year the award is given to the scientific work « Macedonian Dialten Atlas » from the treasury of the cardboard-lexic materials « by a group of authors: Prof. Dr. Veselinka Labroska, Acad. Prof. Dr. Marjan Markovic, Prof. Dr. Kosta Svetlana Davkova-Gjorgieva, Prof. Gajdova.

Delchev, who more than a century ago understood the world as a field for a cultural competition of the peoples, was killed by the Ottoman army on May 4, 1903 in the village of Banica, on the way to Sir. Born on February 4, 1872 in Kukush, in the family of Sultana and Nicholas. He was educated at the Thessaloniki Gymnasium and the Military Academy in Sofia. He teachered in Stip, and as a member of the Central Committee of TMORO worked on the creation of a network of bases, committees and comedy detachments of the organization. He participated in the Thessaloniki Congress of VMRO (1896), and by 1901 he was a VMRO border representative in Sofia. After the killing on May 4, 1903, his remains were kept in Banica, until 1917, when they were transferred to Xanthi and then to Sofia. By 1923, the bone casket was kept in the home of Mikhail Jakov. The remains of Delchev on October 11, 1946 were transferred to the Church of St. Spas in Skopje