North Macedonia marks 149 years since the birth of the revolutionary Goce Delchev, the visionary who over a century ago said he understood the world as an arena for nations to compete in culture.
A Macedonian Orthodox Christian memorial service will be held at his grave in the Skopje church of St. Spas, with several delegations laying flowers.
Goce Delchev 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 foreign 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.
