Ioryi Mucitano
Aromanian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia
Ioryi Mucitano (also Mucitani or Mucitanu, 1882 – 2 August 1911), nicknamed Kasapcheto ("Butcher"), was an Ottoman-born Aromanian revolutionary during the Macedonian Struggle. He was the first leader of the first Aromanian band of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
Mucitano fought in the 1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising as part of the IMRO, after which he became leader of the first Aromanian band of the organization following the band's formation in 1906. Mucitano was involved in the death of the prominent Greek military officer Tellos Agras and his ally Antonis Mingas. After seeing himself forced to resign as leader of the band, Mucitano continued his activities in Macedonia, dying poisoned in 1911.
Biography
Early life
Ioryi Mucitano was born in 1882 in Kruševo (Aromanian: Crushuva), then in the Ottoman Empire and now in North Macedonia. He was an ethnic Aromanian. Mucitano studied at a Romanian school in his hometown and at another in Sofia, Bulgaria; he stood out for having been one of the few Aromanian armatole leaders during the Macedonian Struggle who had a high school degree.
Mucitano fought during the 1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising in the Ottoman Balkans, being part of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) band of Gyorche Petrov. He led an Aromanian committee in Sofia, which, along with another Aromanian committee in Bucharest in Romania, would come into contact with leaders of the IMRO.
Leading of the first Aromanian band of the IMRO
Following this, Petrov organized the first Aromanian band of the IMRO in 1906, and 24-year-old Mucitano was chosen as its voivode (leader).
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