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"'Atanasije Petrović Taško'" (Serbian Cyrillic: Атанасије Петровић Ташко; Kruševo, Ottoman Empire, now North Macedonia, 11 May 1866 — Kumanovo, Ottoman Empire, now North Macedonia, 15 January 1905) was a Serbian Orthodox priest, teacher and leader of the Kumanovo branch of the Serbian Chetnik Organization at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. For that reason alone he was killed by a Bulgarian terrorist organization.

Biography

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Atanasije Petrović Taško was an Aromanian (also referred to as Cincar) from Kruševo, who moved to the city of Kumanovo for his trade, being a tailor. In Kumanovo, he decided to study for priesthood at a seminary, and at the same time he married the daughter of a local merchant. Around 1895 he became a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church.[1]

Being on the side of the Serbs, he was threatened by the Bulgarian terrorist organization the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, better known by acronym VMRO, whose aim was to make neighbouring territories a part of Greater Bulgaria. When the Serbian Chetnik Organization was founded, Father Taško became the leader of the Kumanovo committee, a branch of the Serbian Chetnik Organization. VMRO terrorists made good their threat by killing him in Kumanovo on 15 January 1905.[2][3][4] In order to avenge the murder of Atanasije Petrović Taško, members of the Serbian revolutionary organization from Kumanovo killed the schismatic Exarchic priest Alexander,[5] exactly on the fortieth day after the death of Taško, at the time when the memorial service was held for him.[6] It was the beginning of tit for tat warfare that would continue for decades, between two kingdoms, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.

References

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  • Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE
  1. ^ Vardar calendar 1 (1906), 77.
  2. ^ Vučetić, Biljana (2007). "Memories of Antoni Todorović on the revolutionary action of the Serbian people in Turkey 1904-1914" (PDF). Miscellanea. 28: 256-305. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  3. ^ V. Ilić, Serbian Chetnik Action 1903-1912, Belgrade 2006, 48.
  4. ^ S. Kraków, Plamen Chetniska, Beograd 1930, 182-190.
  5. ^ Vučetić, Biljana (2007). "Appendix to the biography of Antonija Todorović (1880-1971)" (PDF). Historical journal. 55: 265-277. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  6. ^ Milan Ž. Trajković, The role of VMRO in the Kumanovo case of the Skopje sandjak in 1904/1905, Statehood, democratization and the culture of peace (II volume), Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, 2015, 88 pp.