Editing Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising (section)

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File:Macedonian refugees in Bulgaria, 1903.jpg|[[L'Illustration]] magazine depicting Macedonian Bulgarian refugees crossing the Ottoman - Bulgaria border after the Ilinden Uprising.
File:BASA-1932K-1-435-1.jpg|One of the Kruševo chetas during the uprising
File:Macedonians Take Towns - New York Times August 14 1903.jpg|The events in the Ilinden Uprising as seen by the American [[New York Times]]; August 14, 1903.
File:IMARO Activists - Bulgarian Comitadjii - Captured by the Allies Police.jpg|A convoy of captured Bulgarian IMRO activists
File:Macedonian demonstration in Sofia after the Ilinden Uprising.JPG|[[L'Illustration]] magazine depicting a refugee demonstration in Sofia, Bulgaria, after the crushing of the Uprising.
File:Puck magazine, 1903 October 7.jpg|A [[Puck (magazine)|Puck Magazine]] satirical illustration depicting Bulgaria and Macedonia as Russian puppets, sword fighting, with the Bulgarian one about to decapitate the Macedonian one, October 1903.<ref>''In order to explain the meaning of the caricature, we consulted with Dr. Vancho Gjorgjiev from the Institute of History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje... In the caricature, the part where "Bulgaria" tries to cut off the head of "Macedonia" actually refers to Bulgarian diplomatic activities, as well as its duplicitous role in the insurrectionary movement in Macedonia... Bulgarian circles manipulated the term autonomous Macedonia, i.e. they sought for Macedonia to gain autonomy and then [[Bulgarian irredentism|join the Bulgarian state]]. To achieve this goal... aimed at artificially staged insurrectionary movements in Macedonia, such as the so-called [[Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising]] of September 1902. The organizer... was the Supreme Macedonian Committee headed by [[Stoyan Mihaylovski]] and General [[Ivan Tsonchev]], who acted in agreement with the Bulgarian government and Prince [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria|Ferdinand]]... The biggest consequence of the [[Supreme Macedonian Committee|Supremists]] movement is that it greatly influenced the rise of the Ilinden Uprising in 1903... the Bulgarian government, which bore the burden of the Gorna Dzhumaja Uprising, with the intention of absolving itself of responsibility for future unrest in Macedonia, adopted a decision to administratively ban the Supreme Macedonian Committee... Bulgaria's duplicity did not end there... on February 5, 1903, the Bulgarian government... asked the leaders of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (MRO) to abandon the planned uprising... However, the refusal of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (MRO) to postpone the uprising at the request of Bulgaria is a demonstration of an independent Macedonian character... The part of the caricature where "Russia" is depicted refers to the diplomatic games of the [[Great Powers]] over the [[Macedonian question]]. Under the pressure of the uprising, two concepts for resolving the Macedonian question emerged among European diplomacy, the English one through autonomy and the Austrian one through reforms. During the diplomatic games, the Austrian concept prevailed. Austria-Hungary, supported by Germany, turned to Russia. The two Great Powers began negotiations at the highest level, which lasted from September 30 to October 3... The so-called [[Mürzsteg Agreement|Mürzsteg Reforms]] emerged from these negotiations.'' For more: Вистината за „заедничката историја“: Карикатурата од 1903 година за Македонија од американското списание „Пук“. [https://novamakedonija.com.mk/makedonija/politika/vistinata-za-zaednichkata-istorija/ Novamakedonija 07.11.2022]</ref>
File:Викиекспедиција Железник 264.jpg|Museum in [[Smilevo]] dedicated to the Smilevo congress of May 1903, on which the decision for a uprising was confirmed and the date was chosen
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