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Born on 23 January 1872 in Kilkis (Кукуш; Kukush), present day Greece, Delchev graduated from the local Bulgarian junior high school and the Bulgarian men's high school "St Cyril and Methodius" in Thessaloniki. He entered the military school in Sofia in 1891, but in 1894, a month before the graduation, he was expelled because his political activity as a member of illegal socialist circle.
In 1894, Delchev became a Bulgarian language teacher in a Bulgarian exarchate school in Stip[1] where he met Dame Gruev, the leader of the local committee of BMARC. As a result of the close friendship between the two, Delchev joined the organization in 1895 and before long, became one of its main leaders. After spending the next school year (1895/1896) as a teacher in the town of Bansko, he moved to Bulgaria where he, together with Gjorche Petrov, became a representative of the internal organization in the principality.[2]
Gotse Delchev's involvement in BMARC was an important moment in the history of the Macedonian liberation movement. The years between 1894 and 1903 represented the final and most effective revolutionary phase of his short life. Delchev fought for autonomy of Macedonia. As most of the other leaders of organization at the time, Delchev had a vision of an authonomous Macedonia and Thrace. The international, cosmopolitan views of Delchev that elevated him far ahead of his time could be summarized in his proverbial sentence: "I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples".[3]
His correspondence with other BMARC/SMARO members covers extensive data on supplies, transport and storage of weapons and ammunition in Macedonia. Delchev envisioned independent production of weapons, which resulted in the establishment of a bomb manufacturing plant in the village of Sabler near Kyustendil in Bulgaria. The bombs were later smuggled across the Ottoman border into Macedonia.[4] The inclusion of the rural areas into the organizational districts contributed to the expansion of the organization and the increase in its membership, while providing the essential prerequisites for the formation of the military power of the organization, at the same time having Gotse Delchev as its military advisor (inspector) and chief of all internal revolutionary bands.[5]
The primary question regarding the timing of the uprising in Macedonia and Thrace implicated an apparent discordance among the representatives at the Sofia Conference in 1903 with Delchev opposing the uprising as premature.[6] Delchev died on May 4, 1903 in a skirmish with the Turkish police near the village of Banitza, located in the Serres region, present day Greece, probably after betrayal by local villagers, as rumours asserted, while preparing the nGotse Delchev - pedia, the free encyclopediai o Public Prancing Naked cGotse Delchev - pedia, the free encyclopediar j Porn
