Petar Chaulev

Petar Chaulev (Bulgarian: Петър Чаулев; 1882 – December 23, 1924) was a Bulgarian[1] revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia.[2][3][4] He was a local Bulgarian leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Voivode

Petar Chaulev
Петър Чаулев
Petar Chaulev in uniform.
Bornc. 1882
Ohrid, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Republic of North Macedonia)
Died23 December 1924 (aged 41–42)
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Cause of deathAssassination
NationalityOttoman/Bulgarian
Military career
Allegiance
Service/branch
Battles/warsIlinden Uprising
Balkan Wars

Ohrid–Debar uprising
World War I

Born into an Orthodox Albanian family in Ohrid. His father was a Tosk Albanian fisherman from southern Albania. Chaulev was fluent in Albanian, and spent several years living in Albania where he got the nickname 'Petrush'.[5][6] He graduated from the Bulgarian gymnasium in Bitola, 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 - People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section). During the Balkan Wars 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.[7] After the First World War Chaulev rejoined the IMRO. In 1924 IMRO forged connections with the Comintern. Chaulev later signed the "May Manifesto" in Vienna along with Alexandar Protogerov concerning the formation of a Balkan Communist Federation and cooperation with the Soviet Union.[8] They did this in secrecy despite the position of IMRO leader Todor Alexandrov. Chaulev was assassinated for this action in Milan in December 1924.

References
  1. For three years I have been in foreign countries, much better, much more cultural and much more free, but I love Bulgaria more than anybody because I am a Bulgarian.
  2. Освободителнитѣ борби на Македония, том II, Хр.Силянов, стр. 404-405.
  3. Георгиев, Величко, Стайко Трифонов, История на българите 1878 - 1944 в документи, том 1 1878 - 1912, част втора, стр. 475-481. „Българските революционни чети в Македония според доклад на А. Тошев до министъра на външните работи и изповеданията Д. Станчов“.
  4. Илюстрация Илинден, бр. 132, стр.11.
  5. SKENDER, ASANI (2014). "PETAR ÇAULEV DHE VEPRA E TIJ "SHQIPËRIA"". Studime Albanologjike. ITSH: 25-28.
  6. Dimitar Bechev, Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, ISBN 1538119625, p. 67.
  7. SKENDER, ASANI (2014). "PETAR ÇAULEV DHE VEPRA E TIJ "SHQIPËRIA"". Studime Albanologjike. ITSH: 25-28.
  8. Rothschild, Joseph (1959). The Communist Party of Bulgaria; Origins and Development, 1883-1936. Columbia University Press. p. 171.
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