Nikola Yanakiev Karev was a Macedonian Bulgarian socialist revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He was also a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate school system in his na
Nikola Karev
Karev's birth house in Kruševo, now a memorial house.
Photograph of the 1900–1901 graduates from the Bulgarian Exarchist Gymnasium in Bitola, among whom was Nikola Karev.
Petition for pardon by Toma Niklev and N. Karev to the Ottoman Government from June 1904; (in Bulgarian).
The Kruševo Republic was a short-lived political entity proclaimed in Kruševo during the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. It existed from 3 to 13 August 1903, when insurgents from the Inte
Nikola Karev
…school system in his native area, and a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party. During the Ilinden Uprising he headed the short-lived Kruševo Republic. He is considered a national hero in North Macedonia and Bulgaria. Karev completed his early education at the Bulgarian Exarchist school in Kruševo and…
President of the Republic, Nikola Karev
Homeless inhabitants of Kruševo in front of the ruins of the town. Regarding the escape of the Bulgarian quarter (Slavic area) from destruction, a bribery was suspected, or the fear of an explosion of the ammunition stored there.
The Tomalevski family house where the Republic was proclaimed. The family later emigrated to Bulgaria. In modern day the "Museum of History Kruševo" is located in the house.
The Kruševo headquarters in August 1903.