[1][2][3] Milan Arsov was born in Oraovec, in the Kosovo vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia).

On April 15, 1903 Dimitar Mechev, Ilija Trachkov and Milan Arsov detonated the railway line Thessaloniki - Istanbul.

The next day Arsov threw a bomb in front of the hotel "Alhambra".

Arsov was one of four survivors from the Gemidzhii, who were put on trial by a military court.

He died of tuberculosis on June 8, 1908 in Murzuk,[6][7] but his skull was returned to Macedonia by Pavel Shatev and Georgi Bogdanov.