Petar Pop Arsov

Petar Pop Arsov (Macedonian: Петар Поп Арсов) 14 August 1868 – 1 January 1941 was a Macedonian Revolutionary and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

Early life
He was born in 1868 in the village of Bogomila, near Veles After finishing primary school in his native village of Bogomila he enrolled in the Veles Gymnasium in the year 1881/82 the Gymnasium was funded by the The Veles church school municipality

in the school year 1887/88 when there was a new school protest. They organized the rebellion because: They could not work in the Bulgarian language, but wanted to be taught in their local Macedonian dialects Then Pop Arsov received the first revolutionary baptism and together with his like-minded people stood on the path of the Great Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia [1]. Nikola Nachov was appointed as the new director, who made a decision to exclude eight students, reduce their behavior, withdraw their scholarships and ban them from leaving the boarding school. Because of this decision, as a sign of protest, half of the seventh grade students left the gymnasium, and during these events, 38 students were expelled from the gymnasium. Among those expelled were Dame Gruev and Petar Pop Arsov. as a result he and 38 other students were expelled

Young Macedonian Literary Society
In 1891 he was one of the founders of the Young Macedonian Literary Society which published a magazine called "Loza" or Vine in English the Loza Movement  promoted the Macedonian language and was considered a Seperatist movement by Bulgarian newspapers at the time

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
After the dissolution of the Young Macedonian Literary Society and the banning of Loza, Arsov left for Macedonia and in the fall of 1893 got a job as a professor at the Thessaloniki Boys' Gymnasium "St. Cyril and Methodius". In Thessaloniki, he met again with his old acquaintances, including Dame Gruev. In that period, the idea of founding a revolutionary organization appeared among a narrow circle of Macedonian intellectuals, and Pop Arsov himself took an active part in these developments. He accepted the initiative and became one of the six founders of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, and drafted the first constitution of the Organization in 1893. He stayed away during the Ilinden Uprising, due to his arrest after the Thessaloniki assassinations, (at that time the Central Committee self-dissolved). Arsov became a member of the Central Committee of the Internal Organization, 1904. He participated in the work of the Rila Congress, 1905. and was elected as an overseas representative, participates in the activities of the organization until its informal split.

Macedonian conference
The meeting was attended by: Petar Pop Arsov, Ivan P. Yordanov, Rizo Rizov, Dimitrija Čupovski, the Supremacist comittee Leader Krum Zografov accompanied by two Supreme Leaders from the Shtip  and Kochani regions, Alekso Martulkov and others. Pop Arsov spoke first, followed by Dimitrija Čupovski. He informed those present that the division of Macedonia was decided by the allies and therefore requested to take action for the independence of Macedonia. However, this conception met with sharp opposition from the very beginning among the supremacists. Krum Zugrafov threateningly said: We will cut your tounges, if someone advocates for an  independent Macedonia

in 1910 He advocated for the building of an independent Macedonian church and independent education, he promoted the idea of opening a Higher Pedagogical School in Skopje with the status of a state faculty, with Teodosij Gologanov and Krste Petkov Misirkov. During the First Balkan War, he retreated to Veles, where he organized an all-Macedonian conference, at which, together with Dimitrija Cupovski, he was chosen to travel to London to raise the Macedonian issue at the Peace Conference, his view on this issue can be learned from the sentence : If Macedonia did not exist, diplomacy should create it for the benefit of the Balkans but under the pressure of the Serbian authorities they were exposed, Čupovski returned to Russia and Petar fled to Bulgaria under the threat of his own life. In 1914 He became a teacher in Kostenec. In 1920 retired from public political life and married the teacher from the Thessaloniki Women's Exarch High School, Hristina Nacheva. In 1930 he moved to Sofia (it is assumed that he contacted the Macedonian literary circle), where he remained until the end of his life