Ioryi Mucitano, nicknamed Kasapcheto ("Butcher"), was an Ottoman Aromanian revolutionary during the Macedonian Struggle. He was the first leader of the first Aromanian band of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
Ioryi Mucitano during the Macedonian Struggle
Mucitano with another Aromanian band leader, Alexandru Coshca, and their subordinates
The bodies of Mucitano (left), Apostol Petkov (center) and Vasil Pufkata (right)
The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts that were mainly fought between Greek and Bulgarian subjects who lived in Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1912. The conflict was part of a wider guerilla war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia. Gradually the Greek and Bulgarian bands gained the upper hand. Though the conflict largely ceased by the Young Turk Revolution, it continued as a low intensity insurgency until the Balkan Wars.
Seal of the CC of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization containing the motto Svoboda ili smart.
A Supreme Macedonian Committee's cheta during the Ilinden Uprising.
Seal of the Greek Macedonian Committee depicting Alexander the Great and Byzantine Emperor Basil II
Pavlos Melas in Macedonomachos uniform