Petar Chaulev ( bg, Петър Чаулев; 1882 – December 23, 1924) was a

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revolutionary in Ottoman

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. He was a local Bulgarian leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Born into an

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family in Ohrid. His father was a

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fisherman from southern Albania. Chaulev was fluent in Albanian, and spent several years living in Albania where he got the nickname 'Petrush'. He graduated from the Bulgarian gymnasium in

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, moving in revolutionary circles. He participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising and later became a Bulgarian teacher and secretary within the local revolutionary organization. After the Young Turks Revolution in 1908 he associated with the left wing of IMRO -

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. During the

Balkan Wars The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...

Chaulev supported the Bulgarian Army. After the Second Balkan War he led the Ohrid-Debar Uprising in 1913 against the Serbs. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the Bulgarian army and later was appointed as governor of Ohrid. Chaulev was also a writer, publishing the book Skipia (Albania) in 1924 in Istanbul. After the First World War Chaulev rejoined the IMRO. In 1924 IMRO forged connections with the

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. Chaulev later signed the "

May Manifesto The "May Manifesto" of May 6, 1924 was a paper in which the objectives of the unified Macedonian liberation movement were presented: independence and unification of partitioned region of Macedonia, fighting all the neighbouring Balkan monarchies, su ...

" in Vienna along with

Alexandar Protogerov Alexandar Protogerov (Bulgarian: Александър Протогеров) (28 February 1867, Ohrid – 7 July 1928, Sofia) was a Bulgarian general, politician and revolutionary, as well as a member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia, T ...

concerning the formation of a Balkan Communist Federation and cooperation with the Soviet Union. They did this in secrecy despite the position of IMRO leader

Todor Alexandrov Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov, best known as Todor Alexandrov ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Тодор Александров), also spelt as Alexandroff (4 March 1881 – 31 August 1924), was a Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, politician and t ...

. Chaulev was assassinated for this action in Milan in December 1924.

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