Kokošinje Murders
On August 6, 1904, there were murders in Kokošinje of Serbs carried out by the IMRO Bulgarian bands of Atanas Babata. Parts of the IMRO, which supported the Bulgarian Exarchate, executed notable Serbs, who supported the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Background Per Serbian sources the IMRO plotted against the Serbian Chetniks. Per Bulgarian sources on July 11, 1904, the Cheta (armed group), chetas of Atanas Babata, Slaveyko Arsov and Stoyan Donski were surrounded by a large Turkish troops near the village of Gorno Gjugjantsi. After a six-hour battle in which the Turks used artillery and cavalry, the Bulgarian Chetniks managed to break through the cordon and escaped, but 20 people were killed, incl. the vojvode Donski, and the wounded vojvode Arsov committed suicide. Subsequently, Atanas Babata received information that the chetas were found after a betrayal of [sic] Serbomans from the village in the area called Kokošinje and he decided to revenge. In the meantime, there was st ...
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) // CITED: p. 36 (PDF p. 38/338) also known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and, with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror. Under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire marked the peak of its power and prosperity, as well a ...
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