Gligor Zisov (Bulgarian: Глигор Зисов) was a Bulgarian teacher in the kaza of Kastoria (present-day Kastoria, Greece) of the Ottoman Empire. He was killed by the newly established Greek authorities in 1913 after the First Balkan War.
Biography
editZisov was born in the nearby village of Aposkep (present-day Aposkepos, Greece). Having graduated from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki, he became the schoolteacher of the village of Tseresnitsa (today Polikeraso), in 1912. A student of his recalled:[1]
"He was medium-height, neither particularly tall nor short. Wherever he went, the ground grew more beautiful; he was just like a teacher..."[1]
After the establishing of the Greek authorities in the region of Kastoria, a militia group of Evzones installed in the village of Tseresnitsa.[2] Greek soldiers however, tried to convince him to become a teacher of the Greek language but he refused, saying that Bulgaria and Greece were allies, as they were member-states of the Balkan League. After refusing repeatedly to become a Greek teacher, he was severely beaten in front of his students.[3]
Consequently, Zisov's father took him back to his home village; however, Zisov was soon after arrested by Greeks, bound, and led back to Tseresnitsa.
On the eve of the Second Balkan War, some Bulgarian priests and teachers of the Kastoria region, were subjected to deportation to Bulgaria. A number of them were arrested, beaten, put in prison, even killed.[2] One of them, according to interviews taken from the Bulgarian dialectologist and phonologist Blagoy Shklifov, was Zisov, who was taken to Bulgaria. When the group of Bulgarian teachers and priests were near Zagoritsani (present-day Vasiliada, Greece), the Greek soldiers killed them.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. p. 37.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1914). Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan War (PDF). pp. 197–199.
- ^ Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. p. 51.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). One of the students recalled: ...they began to beat him. They would leave him alone for a little bit so that he could stand up, only to resume the beating. One of the soldiers, grabbing him by the hair, held him slanted; another whipped him with a rope. They then threw him to the ground and dragged him by his feet, until Gligor was left with little spirit. I watched all this, wondering if a mother could have possibly birthed such animals. - ^ Shklifov, Blagoy (2011). На кол вода пиехме. Записки за Христовите мъки на българите в Егейска Македония през ХХ век [At stake drinking water, Notes on Christ's passion of Bulgarians in Aegean Macedonia during the twentieth century] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. pp. 51–53.
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