Talk:Veljko Petrović

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[edit] uzas

ovo je ocajno, prevod je smehotresan. Korigovao sam prva dva pasusa, a koga ne mrzi nek nastavi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.30.10 (talk) 22:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Veljko"

Doesn't "veljko" mean just "big" or is it a personal name in Serbian?

"Veliko" means "big", "Veljko" is a personal name. Nikola 05:47, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Veljko an ethnic Bulgarian?

Ok, what is the basis for this claim? Was there a Turkish census that established this fact? When did he declare himself Bulgarian? There is a biography of him by Vuk Karadžić who knew him personally (the two were good friends - the "friend" mentioned in the text is Vuk), but it never mentions neither that he was a Bulgarian nor that his name was actually Velko Petrov. A substantial number of his troops were described as ethnic Vlachs in that biography so I don`t think that Vuk was playing an "ethnic minorities assimilator" when writting his bio. Btw - Serbo-Bulgarian strifes are a later product - back then the two peoples regarded themselves as brothers. I cannot take the two web links seriously - actually they both point to the same page. It is an ultra-nationalist Bulgarian text which claims - if I understood it correctly - that the whole eastern Serbia was in fact a Bulgarian land, inhabited by Bulgarians including Niš and Pirot! The claim that he was a Bulgarian military leader presented in the text is an utter nonsence since he waged war under the banner of the Serbian Uprisers - he obtained both the flag and his first title of Bulyu-basha (roughly lieutenant) in 1807 from the Serbian Uprisers` High Council in Belgrade and the title of Vojvoda from Karađorđe in 1809. The only information in the text that supports the claim that he was a Bulgarian is the exsistence of a Bulgarian folk song that claims that his mother was Bulgarian. Even if it were true that doesnt mean that his real surname is Petrov since the surname is inherited from the father, whose nationality was not revealed! I would like a quote from that book listed as a source. Judging from its title the book doesn`t cover the end of 18th and the 19th century during which Veljko lived, so how can it be used as a source?

Veljko Stevanovich 29. Dec. 2006. 21:55 UTC+1

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Hajdut Veljko was an ethnic Bulgarian by the name of Velko Petrov (Bulgarian: Велко Петров).[1][2][3]

Inline citations

  1. ^ Castellan, Georges (1999). History of the Balkans XIV-XV Century (in Bulgarian). Plovdiv: Hermes, p. 273. ISBN 954-459-901-0. 
  2. ^ Valchev, Vasil (14 January 1998). Haydut Velko was born by a Bulgarian mother... (Bulgarian). Makedoniya Newspaper. Retrieved on 2006-09-27.
  3. ^ Sapundzhiev, Panko. 222th anniversary of the birth of Velko voyvoda (Bulgarian). Balgarska Armiya Newspaper. Retrieved on 2006-09-27.

I've removed the above text from the article because the claim is very controversial, proabably wrong, and only one source is verifiable - a Bulgarian nationalist source, if the previous comment is anything to go by.--Еstavisti 04:05, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 16:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)