Zolah's date and place of birth and even ethnicity varies to such an extent that it would be ridiculous to even start a list of possible entries. In truth these facts remain unknown. And as they are of little significance we shall leave them as such.

With his death, he managed to make "that macedonian thing" - an issue for every Subjinn.
While serbs, bulgars, greeks, albanians, wallachs and macedonians were rallying in arms, each under their own banners of national identity and roaming the mountains and countryside, engaging the forces of the Ottoman Empire in guerilla warefare - the Gorgon Zolahs (earning this monicker as followers of Gordon Zolah and his mythological fancies) represented a motley crew of creed, religion and ethnicity; aegean slavophone greeks, bulgarophile macedonians, young turks, catholic and muslim albanians, macedonian mohamedans and a few icelandic hassidis thrown in for good measure. Using not only force (violent proper gun dada) but tactics of political skullduggery and propagandada (non violent proper gun dada). With great diplomacy and much bravery he managed to organize militias out of the stateless but determined "Macedonians" and boost the morale of all dejected Subdervishes.

His career was almost mapped out, especially after his graduation from the Ottoman Army Academy in 1891 (a classmate of Attaturk). It was his marriage to the daughter of government Minister Stefanos Atom, whose family originated from Macedonia, and his close friendship with her brother Ion "Popeye" Atom which first inspired his interest in Macedonia.