Nikola Karev

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Nikola Janakiev Karev ( Bulgarian and Macedonian Никола Янакиев Карев ; * November 11th July / November 23rd  1877 greg. In Kruševo ; † April 14th July / April 27th  1905 greg. In Rajčani ) was a Macedonian-Bulgarian school teacher and Revolutionary . During the Ilinden uprising in August 1903 he was president of the short-lived Republic of Kruševo .

Karev was born in the city of Kruševo in what was then Vilâyet Manastır of the Ottoman Empire , today it is located in the southwest of the Republic of North Macedonia . During the 1890s he worked as a chair maker in Sofia . There he came into contact with socialist ideas. He became a member of the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (TMARO for short), which campaigned for the liberation of Macedonia and Eastern Thrace from Ottoman rule.

On returning to Kruševo, he became a teacher at a school of the Bulgarian Exarchate and head of a local Cheta . During the Ilinden uprising he was president of the Kruševo republic, which only existed from August 3 to 13, 1903. For this he is regarded as a hero in both Bulgaria and Macedonia. According to his cousin Nikola Kirov-Majski , he wrote the Kruševo Manifesto together with him . However, its actual existence is not documented.

After the suppression of the uprising, he fled again to Sofia in the Principality of Bulgaria , where he became involved in the Bulgarian Social Democratic Labor Party . In 1905 he crossed the Bulgarian-Ottoman border as a voivode of a Cheta and was involved in combat operations with Ottoman troops. In one of these skirmishes he was fatally wounded near Rajčani.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Dimitar Bechev: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. Scarecrow Press, Lanham (MD) / Toronto / Plymouth 2009, pp. 113-114, entry Karev, Nikola .
  2. Keith Brown: The Past in Question. Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation. Princeton University Press, Princeton / Oxford 2003, p. 81.
  3. Torsten Szobries: Linguistic aspects of nation-building in Macedonia. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 56.

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