Vlado Crnozemski (Macedonian revolutionary)

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Originally Posted by Soldier of Macedon

Here is something further about Crnozemski that may also point to his Macedonian origin. One of the pseudonyms he used was 'Petar Keleman'. Given the uniqueness of this name it is highly probably that his inspiration was the earlier Macedonian revolutionary Spiro Kilimanov / Kelemanov. Spiro was from Štip, and in later years he too performed so-called "terrorist" acts for the organisation in Solun. In one of the song versions about the assassination of Aleksandar Karageorgevic it refers to Crnozemski as 'Štipjanceto'. An interesting coincidence.

You're correct SoM, Crnozemski did in fact use the name Petr Kelemen as a pseudonym inspired by Spiro Kilimanov also known as Kelemano/Kelemanov who was courier and an assassin of VMRO.


From left to right "Koce Dzheferov, Crn Kiro from Shtip and Spiro Kelemanov.


Spiro Kelemanov

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VMRO:

Very nice, thanks!