Preservation of American Hellenic History
Preservation of American Hellenic History
by Jason C. Mavrovitis
The Second Balkan War erupted during the summer of 1913 while Eleni was in Chicago. Bulgarian military units attacked Serbian forces and the fight over territorial claims in Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania began.
On 9 July 1913 (26 June by the old Julian calendar), Eleni's first cousin, Ortodokso Yanakev Zisov (Orthodoxos Iannou Zissis), who had been conscripted into the Bulgarian army was killed in action. He was the son of her father's brother, Ioanni, and only twenty-two years of age when he died in the battle of Kitka Peak in Serbia, perhaps on the slope shown in this photo.
One consequence of the extraordinarily long, complex and tragic history of the people of Thrace and Macedonia was that this young Bulgarian citizen of Greek nationality marched from his home in Sozopolis to Serbia to die fighting for Bulgaria in what is now Macedonia. His commanding officer wrote:
The deceased was killed in a battle near Kitka Peak on June 26, 1913, in the war against Serbia. He was hit by a bullet in the left part of the chest.
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