1. Petar Poparsov or Petar Pop Arsov was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, educator and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.
11 Facts About Petar Poparsov
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Petar Poparsov is regarded as an ethnic Macedonian by the historiography in North Macedonia.
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Petar Poparsov was born in 1868 in the village of Bogomila, near Veles.
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Petar Poparsov managed to enroll in the philology studies program at Belgrade University in 1888, but due to the resistance to Serbianisation, the group was once more evicted in 1890 and moved to Sofia.
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In 1894 Petar Poparsov was asked by the founders to prepare a draft for the first statute of the IMARO, based on the Statute of Vasil Levski's Internal Revolutionary Organization, which was available to them in Zahari Stoyanov's Notes on the Bulgarian Uprisings.
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Some international, Macedonian and Bulgarian researchers assume, that in this first statute the organization was called Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees, and Petar Poparsov was its author.
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Petar Poparsov is considered to have been among the leftist federalist faction of the revolutionary organization, favoring political autonomy of Macedonia and strongly opposed to the ring-wing centralist faction which favored unification with Bulgaria.
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Petar Poparsov worked not only as a teacher but as a director until his retirement.
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Petar Poparsov died after a brief illness in Sofia in 1941.
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Petar Poparsov's brother Andrey Poparsov was an IMARO activist and Bulgarian teacher in the villages of Bogomila and Orese.
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Petar Poparsov was killed in October 1918 by the Serbian authorities as a Bulgarian collaborator.