Who is Metodija-Andonov Cento?

[poiuytrewq0987]

I think he is probably one of the few pure Macedonists who felt no affinity with Bulgaria. Unless, I am wrong, and you have a source or two showing how Bulgarian he was, and previously felt affinity with Bulgaria as well?

[morski]

I can dig some info on him but it's mostly in Bulgarian.

Off the top of my head: His name is obviously Bulgarian and not Serb. He was born in 1902 in Prilep and studied in an Exarchate school.

He refused to take part in the administration of the New teritories in the Tsardom during WWII and sympatized with the resistance.

He presided at ASNOM in 1944 and he was responsible for inviting functionaries of the Bulgarian action committees Yordan Chkatrov and Trayche Chundev. He also opposed the presence of Serbomans and expelled Tempo from the assembly.

He was also strongly opposed to the mass arrests and killings of Bugarashi.

After he resigned from the post of Chairman of the Parliament he decided to go to the Paris peace conference as a private person and petition for the conference to send an inquiry committee in Macedonia, which would intercede for the right of self-determination of the populace and the right to secede from SFRJ. He was apprehended, though, sent to Goli otok concentration camp and died 9 years later.

He was a true Macedonian autonoimist, but not a Macedonist and he was against Serbian domination in Vardar Macednoia and the false new identity thrown on the people of Macedonia for which he eventually lost his life.

[пустиняк]

I don;t know many things about him but his name Metodija sounds like Serboman's name but maybe authorities of FYROM renamed him from Metodi to Metodija

[Crn Volk]

Cento is a true hero of Macedonia. He fought the Bulgarian and Italo-Albanian fascists and fought for a united and independent Macedonia. He supported the Macedonian language, people and state.

[morski]

Cento is a true hero of Macedonia. He fought the Bulgarian and Italo-Albanian fascists and fought for a united and independent Macedonia. He supported the Macedonian language, people and state.

[Romanion]

He was a true Macedonian autonoimist, but not a Macedonist and he was against Serbian domination in Vardar Macednoia and the false new identity thrown on the people of Macedonia for which he eventually lost his life.

This is a tried and true tactic in the region, if you want a part of another country you go for autonomy first then union. This happened with Eastern Rumelia for Bulgaria, Crete for Greece, the first Serbian state was autonomous then seeded from the Ottomans and so did Wallachia, and more recently Kosovo was granted autonomy now it declared independance Its a tried and tested method I think Cento was aiming for to seperate Vardar Macedonia from Yugoslavia and maybe eventual union with Bulgaria.

Did he leave any memiors to read?

[Crn Volk]

No, Cento was for an independent Macedonia outside of SFRJ that would have Pirin and Aegean Macedonia join it. He was imprisoned for his views.

[morski]

This is a tried and true tactic in the region, if you want a part of another country you go for autonomy first then union. This happened with Eastern Rumelia for Bulgaria, Crete for Greece, the first Serbian state was autonomous then seeded from the Ottomans and so did Wallachia, and more recently Kosovo was granted autonomy now it declared independance Its a tried and tested method I think Cento was aiming for to seperate Vardar Macedonia from Yugoslavia and maybe eventual union with Bulgaria.

Did he leave any memiors to read?

He was just one bloke in a long line of autonomists with the agenda mentioned by you- unification with Bulgaria when the circumstances allow it.

[Romanion]

The Hungarians in Romania always ask for autonomy, the government knows what that means and they always say no

[Petros Houhoulis]

Who IS Cento? Currently... Nobody. He died half a century ago.

I think he is probably one of the few pure Macedonists who felt no affinity with Bulgaria. Unless, I am wrong, and you have a source or two showing how Bulgarian he was, and previously felt affinity with Bulgaria as well?

The Bulgarians claim him their own sometimes, but I have yet to see hard evidence... Only hearsay.