Dimitar Gyuzelov ( bg, Димитър Гюзелов, ) was a

Macedonian Bulgarian Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians ( bg, македонци or македонски българи), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of eth ...

revolutionary and philosopher.''National Liberation Struggle in Macedonia, 1919 - 1941,'' the Collective IC "Knowledge", Sofia (1998), p 166-218 He is the father of Macedonian writer Bogomil Gyuzel and artist Liljana Gyuzelova, who between 1996 and 2006 worked on an art installation titled ''The Perpetual Return,'' dedicated to her father, his murder, and the stigma that the children of prominent Bulgarians who had been persecuted by the Yugoslav authorities after 1945 had to endure.

Biography

Gyuzelov was born in 1902 in Doyran, then in the Ottoman Empire, but after the destruction of the city during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

his family moved to

Strumica Strumica ( mk, Струмица, ) is the largest city2002 census results
in English and Macedon ...

. He finished Serbian high school in that city and then studied philosophy and Slavic studies in the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, during which time he was sponsored by

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

(IMRO). In 1924 he joined the

Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization The Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization or MYSRO ( bg, Македонска младежка тайна революционна организация, mk, Македонска младинска тајна револуционер ...

(MYSRO) shortly after its establishment and initial development, and like this organized wide activities by forming a nucleus of organization in many places in than

Vardar Banovina The Vardar Banovina, or Vardar Banate ( mk, Вардарска бановина, Vardarska banovina; sr, Вардарска бановина, translit=Vardarska Banovina; al, Banovina e Vardarit, italics=no), was a province (banate) of the King ...

. After the occupation of most of the Yugoslav

by Bulgaria in 1941, Gyuzelov became director of

Radio Skopje Macedonian Radio Television (MRT; mk, Македонска радио-телевизија (МРТ), Makedonska radio-televizija (MRT)), officially National Radio-Television ( mk, Национална Радиотелевизија, Nacionalna ...

. After the end of war, the Communist government of

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

sentenced him to death, labeling him like many other prominent

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...

as a "Bulgarian fascist". He was shot, together with

Dimitar Chkatrov Dimitar Chkatrov was Bulgarian activist in Vardar Macedonia. He was born in Prilep, then in the Ottoman Empire in 1900. Chkatrov began to study at the Bulgarian primary school in his hometown, but after the establishment of Serbian rule following ...

, in the vicinity of Zaychev Rid, three kilometers outside of

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

.Църнушанов, Коста. „Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него“, Унив. изд. "Св. Климент Охридски", София (1992).

References

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History
''section.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyuzelov, Dimitar 1902 births 1945 deaths Bulgarian revolutionaries People from Dojran Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian people executed abroad 20th-century Bulgarian philosophers Executed Yugoslav collaborators with Nazi Germany People executed by Yugoslavia by firing squad