Kruševo Manifesto

It was calling upon the Muslim population to join forces with the republican government in the struggle against tyranny and to attain democratic form of statehood.

[2][3][4] Macedonian historiography refers to a text that was compiled about twenty years after the events.

It was published in 1923 by Nikola Kirov in Sofia in his native dialect, as part from a play.

[5] In fact at the turn of the 20th century there were only a few researchers who claimed that a separate Macedonian language existed.

[6] Though, Macedonian historians object to Kirov's classification of then Krusevo's Slavic population as Bulgarian.