Hristo Chernopeev
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Macedonia (region)
Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, as...
. He was among the leaders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees.
Chernopeev worked as sergeant in Bulgarian Army from 1889 to 1899. Afterwards he became an active member of the Macedonian liberation movement and took part in the Miss Stone Affair
Miss Stone Affair
The Miss Stone Affair was the kidnapping of American Protestant missionary Ellen Maria Stone and her pregnant friend Katerina Stefanova–Tsilka by an IMORO detachment led by the voivoda Yane Sandanski and the sub-voivodas Hristo Chernopeev and Krǎstyo Asenov on 21 August 1901. The two women were...
in 1901 in Pirin
Pirin
The Pirin Mountains are a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, with Vihren the highest peak, situated at . The range extends about 40 km northwest-southeast, and about 25 km wide. Most of the range is protected in the Pirin National Park...
Mountain. After the suppression of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August 1903 |Macedonia]] affected most of the central and southwestern parts of the Monastir Vilayet receiving the support mainly of the local Bulgarian peasants and to some extent of the Aromanian population of the region...
in 1903 together with Yane Sandanski
Yane Sandanski
Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...
and Dimo Hadjidimov he set the base of the left wing of IMRO. During this period he led a band in Kilkis
Kilkis
Kilkis is an industrial city in Central Macedonia, Greece. As of 2001 there were 17,430 people living in the city proper, 24,812 people living in the municipal unit, and 56,336 in the municipality of Kilkis. It is also the capital city of the regional unit of Kilkis.-Name:Kilkis is located in a...
' region and worked as a military instructor in IMRO. After the Young Turks
Young Turks
The Young Turks , from French: Les Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favouring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Sultan and favoured a re-installation of the short-lived Kanûn-ı Esâsî constitution...
revolution in 1908 Chernopeev was one of the founders of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section). From 1911 he became member of Central Committee of IMRO and during 1912 was leader of a volunteer regiment in the First Balkan War
First Balkan War
The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...
. In 1913 Hristo Chernopeev was elected as deputy in the Bulgarian parliament. In 1915 he left the parliament and went at the front as a reserve officer. Chernopeev was killed on the front during the First World War on 6 November 1915 in a battle with French troops near Krivolak
Krivolak
Krivolak is an area in east-central Macedonia, where the largest military base of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia, and the largest military training polygon in the Balkans is located. The area is primarily used for the training of the Macedonian Armed Forces and it's Allies...
, Štip
Štip
Štip is the largest urban agglomeration in the eastern part of the Republic of Macedonia, serving as the economic, industrial, entertainment and educational focal point for the surrounding municipalities. As of the 2002 census, the Štip municipality alone had a population of about 47,796...
. He was buried in the courtyard of the church in Novo Selo, now a quarter of Štip
Štip
Štip is the largest urban agglomeration in the eastern part of the Republic of Macedonia, serving as the economic, industrial, entertainment and educational focal point for the surrounding municipalities. As of the 2002 census, the Štip municipality alone had a population of about 47,796...
. After the communists seized power in Macedonia the nameplate on his grave was destroyed in 1945. In November 2010 his mortal remains and the remains of ten other Bulgarian officers were еxhumed by unknown circumstances.
Chernopeev Peak
Chernopeev Peak
Chernopeev Peak is the rocky peak rising to 543 m on the southeast side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....
on Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
in Antarctica is named after the Hristo Chernopeev.
External links
- "Движението отсамъ Вардара и борбата съ върховистите по спомени на Яне Сандански, Черньо Пеевъ, Сава Михайловъ, Хр. Куслевъ, Ив. Анастасовъ Гърчето, Петъръ Хр. Юруковъ и Никола Пушкаровъ; съобщава Л. Милетичъ", София, Печатница П. Глушковъ, 1927, поредица "Материяли за историята на македонското освободително движение", Издава "Македонскиятъ Наученъ Институтъ", Книга VII. (in Bulgarian)