Nikola Karev

Nikola Yanakiev Karev was a Macedonian Bulgarian socialist revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was also a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate 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.