new Central Committee of IMARO was formed and the Centralists faction gained full control over the Organization. During the Balkan wars, Gyorche Petrov was a volunteer in the 5th company of Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps. He was President of the Regular Regional Committee in Bitola for some time during the Bulgarian occupation of Southern Serbia, i.e. Vardar Macedonia, but after the Bulgarian occuparion of Northern Greece, became a mayor of Drama. At the end of the war he was one of the initiators of the formation of a new leftist organization called Provisional representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization, and this government set a task of defending the positions of the Bulgarians in Macedonia at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920). He kept close ties with the new government of Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU), especially with war minister Aleksandar Dimitrov and some other prominent Agrarian leaders. BANU rejected territorial expansion and aimed at forming a Balkan federation of agrarian states, a policy which began with a détente with Yugoslavia. As result Petrov became a Chief of the Bulgarian Refugees Agency by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then Petrov had to deal with the problem of Bulgarian refugees who had to leave Yugoslavia and Greece, thus incurring IMRO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization) Centralist faction leaders' hatred upon himself. One of the reasons for this was the open struggle of the IMRO with the government of the BANU, and on the other hand, the interplay between the various refugees organizations and the attempt of IMRO to acquire them. He was eventually killed by an IMRO-assassin in June 1921 in Sofia. The assassination of Gyorche Petrov complicated relations between IMRO and Bulgarian government and produced significant dissensions in the Macedonian movement. To honor his name a suburb of Skopje was named Ǵorče Petrov, or usually shortly referred only as Ǵorče. The suburb is one of the ten municipalities of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. Gallery References External links G. Petrov, Materials on the Study of Macedonia, Sofia, 1896, pp. 724-725, 731; the original is in Bulgarian - Information on the ethnic composition of the population in Macedonia, 1896 1864 births 1921 deaths People from Prilep Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian educators Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery Macedonian Bulgarians Assassinated Bulgarian people People murdered in Bulgaria Deaths by firearm in