Flags of Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization
It represents a stitched red and green cloth with a girl standing before a slain Turkish soldier, with the inscription "Liberty or Death" above her.
The descendant of Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia, Anka Nikolova Hikimova - Kolakova, submitted it in 2014 to National Military Museum Sofia.
[2] The flag was made in March 1903 in the house of Jovanche Mihailovski by Evgenia Mihailovska, Tima Mincheva, Lefterka Grozdanova and Ana Ivanova under the direction of Pane Ivanov.
[5] The flag of the 3rd detachment of Pitu Guli is made of red silk cloth trimmed with yellow tinsel.
The motto "Freedom or Death - Banner of the Krushevo cheta" is embroidered in a circle, and in it shaking hands as a symbol of unity and a lit torch above them.
It was embroidered by Ohrid teachers Vasilka Razmova, Konstantina Boyadzhieva, Slavka Chakarova, Poliksena Mosinova.
It represents a girl with a Bulgarian tricolor in her hand and in it the inscription "Freedom or Death" and an upright lion stepping on a Turkish flag.
[8] The flag from the Ilinden Uprising of the village of Ranci, brought to Lesok by Angel Boyarovski and handed over to the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje.
It is made of red cotton fabric, embroidered on one side with white and yellow threads and measuring 71 x 65 cm.
On the face, a woman with a Bulgarian tricolor and the inscription "Freedom or Death" is embroidered on it, and on the back - a lion trampling Turkish flags.
Submitted to National military museum in Sofia in 1982 by Yordanka Miladinova-Chernova and her son, engineer Kliment Chernov.
[10] The flag of the center detachment of the Bulgarian Blatsa is made of a bright red background of two cloths, and in the corners it is decorated with tinsel.
On one side, a fallen insurgent is embroidered, on whom a young girl places a wreath, and on the other side, with silk thread, the verse of "Hadji Dimitar" by Hristo Botev is embroidered: "He who falls in the fight for freedom, he does not die, he is pitied heaven and earth, beast and nature, and singers sing songs about him."
The flag of the detachment from the Kostur village of Dobrolishte was preserved towards the middle of the Second World War, when Pascal Kalimanov showed it to Prime Minister Bogdan Filov in Sofia in 1943.
Above it is embroidered the inscription "Liberty or Death", at the bottom of the flag "July 20, 1903 Zagorichani", and in the four corners crescent moons.
[15] The Konomladi center flag is made of a bright red background of two sails, and in the corners it is decorated with tinsel.
On the other side, the verse from Hristo Botev's "Prayer" is embroidered with silk thread: "Inspire everyone, oh God, with holy love for freedom, so that when the slave rises, in the ranks of the struggle, I too will seek the grave."
[18] There is no preserved information about the center flag of the Smardesh Squad, except that it was sewn by Zoya Chekalarova - Markovska.
It is most likely a red square cloth with the inscription "Liberty or Death", and below it a young woman armed with a sword in her hand, standing above a crescent moon.
It was preserved after the suppression of the uprising and used again during the Balkan War by the detachment of Hristo Chernopeev, Peyo Yavorov, Lazar Kolchagov and Yonko Vaptsarov.
On a cherry-red silk cloth with white threads, the motto "Liberty or Death" is embroidered in a semicircle, and in the middle a maiden with broken chains.
[20] The flag was made by Zoitsa Kokotanova from Radovish and Efrosina Popivanova from Pehchevo, teachers in Dedino and Voislavtsi, respectively.
[21] The flag was sewn on red cloth in 1898 by the teachers Tota Doncheva, Stana Veleva and Zheka Kefilska, in 1903 Dora Todorova Shishmanova and Maria Stoilova Shishkova completed the inscription with "1903".
After the suppression of the uprising, the flag was handed over to the chairman of the Macedonian-Odrina Society in Alan Kairjak, Stamo Grudov.
