The Kruševo Manifesto is a presumable

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published by the Revolutionary Committee of

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during the 1903 Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. It was calling upon the

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population to join forces with the republican government in the struggle against tyranny and to attain democratic form of statehood. It urged that the uprising was against the

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, and was not religiously or ethnically based. More, this manifesto is cited by modern Macedonian historiography as historical example of the use of a separate Macedonian language during the uprising. However there is no original preserved and its historical authenticity is disputed.

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refers to a text that was compiled about twenty years after the events. It was published in 1923 by

Nikola Kirov Nikola Kirov (Никола Киров; 28 June 1880 – 2 August 1962) was a Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and public figure, a member of IMRO. Biography Nikola Kirov was born on 28 June 1880 in Kırşova, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottom ...

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in his native dialect, as part from a play. In fact at the turn of the 20th century there were only a few researchers who claimed that a separate Macedonian language existed. Though, Macedonian historians object to Kirov's classification of then Krusevo's Slavic population as Bulgarian.Keith Brown, The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation, Princeton University Press, 2003, , p. 81.

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External links

The Macedonian and English translations of the Manifesto
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