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February 4th marks years from the birthday of Georgi Goce Delchev &#; the vanguard of the Macedonian revolutionary movement whose political genius, moral authority and charisma helped sustain a formidable national struggle against the Ottoman Empire and the expansionist efforts of the neighbouring countries.

Promising Youth

Delchev was born on February 4th, in the Macedonian village Kukush, today the town of Kilkis in Aegean Macedonia or Central Macedonia prefecture of Greece.

He was one of nine children &#; five daughters and four sons born in the household of Nikola and Sultana Delchevi.

When Goce was young, some of the residents of Kukush had become awakened to the revolutionary idea for Macedonian freedom and some became soldiers in the unit of Gjorgija Pulevski who fought multiple wars against the Ottoman Empire, including the Kresna Uprising in

Those who knew Goce as a child personally have