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[QUOTE = Moje ime; 6297306] Имали ли са те някога политически идеи за раздяла с България? [/ QUOTE]
Following the Treaty of Berlin, under the influence of an English officer of Polish descent, Sankler Tamrash, along with 20 other Pomak villages in the Vacha and Devin regions, refused to acknowledge the autonomous rule of Eastern Rumelia based in Plovdiv and remain "unattached" to it. Under the leadership of Ahmed aga, the Tumreshliya from the village of Tumresh, the so-called "Pomak" or "Tamrush Republic" was formed. There are various reasons for secession: economic, foreign influence, and Eastern Rumelian domination. After the annexation of Eastern Rumelia by the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885, these parts of the Rhodope Mountains were returned to the Ottoman Empire by virtue of the Tophana Act, and were annexed to Bulgaria during the Balkan War (1912). After 16 August 1913 the Republic of Gümürdzin was proclaimed. Turks and Pomaks proclaim autonomy for the territory between Maritsa, Mesta and Arda and set up the so-called "Independent West-Thracian Government", headed by Hajj Sali Efendi (Hafuz Sali), a Pomak from Pandzhuk village.
In late August and early September 1913, an uprising broke out in the area of Deuven (Devin), which also encompassed surrounding villages in the Western and partly the Central Rhodopes.
From 1942 to 1946, Pomak guerrilla troops supported by the British roamed the border regions of the Southern Rhodopes. The most famous among the leaders of these companies is Alireza Kehayov from the village of Chavdar, Dospatsko. Following the failure of these troops to separate the Pomak region of the Rhodope Mountains from Bulgaria with the help of the British, much of the partisans, including Alireza Kehayov, fled to Turkey. This was also the reason for launching a campaign for the internment of the border Pomak population in Northern Bulgaria from 1949 to 1951.
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