Petar Chaulev, also called Petre Chashule (1882, Ohrid

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, present day Republic of Macedonia

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 — 1924, Milan

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) was a Bulgarian

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 revolutionary in Ottoman

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 Macedonia

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. He was a local leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

He graduated from the Bulgarian gymnasium in Bitola

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, moving in revolutionary circles. He participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising

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The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August 1903 |Macedonia]] affected most of the central and southwestern parts of the Monastir Vilayet receiving the support mainly of the local Bulgarian peasants and to some extent of the Aromanian population of the region...

 and later became a teacher and secretary within the local revolutionary organization. After the Young Turks

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 Revolution in 1908 he associated with the left wing of IMRO - Federative People's Party (Bulgarian Section). During the Balkan Wars

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 Chaulev supported the Bulgarian Army. Afrer the Second Balkan War

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 he led the Ohrid-Debar Uprising

Ohrid-Debar Uprising

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 in 1913 against the Serbs

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.

After the First World War Chaulev rejoined the IMRO. In 1924 IMRO forged connections with the Comintern

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. Chaulev later signed the "May Manifesto

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" in Vienna

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 along with Alexandar Protogerov concerning the formation of a Balkan Communist Federation

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 and cooperation with the Soviet Union. They did this in secrecy despite the position of IMRO leader Todor Alexandrov. Chaulev was assassinated for this action in Milano in December 1924.