Ilinden Uprising
The uprising lasted from 2 August 1903 up to November 1903. The name of the uprising comes from the Christian Orthodox holy day of Ilinden on which the revolts began. Ultimately the uprising was crushed by the better equipped and much larger Ottoman army. The casualties were on both sides were small however a large number of people were made homeless, the majority of which number around 30,000 fled to Bulgaria. Despite the uprisings being crushed very quickly its still remembered and respect by Macedonian historians as a national liberation of Macedonia from Turkish rule.