who participated in the events in Krushevo. Although post-World War II Yugoslav Communist historians objected to Kirov's classification of Krusevo's Slavic population as Bulgarian, they quickly adopted everything else in his narrative of the events in 1903 as definitive. However, during the Informbiro period, the name of insurgents leader Nikola Karev was scrapped from the Macedonian anthem, as he and his brothers were suspected of being bulgarophile elements. Some modern Macedonian historians such as Blaže Ristovski have recognized, that the entity, nowadays a symbol of the Macedonian statehood, was composed of people who identified themselves as "Greeks", "Vlachs" (Aromanians), and "Bulgarians". In the early 20th century, Kruševo was populated by a Slavic population, Aromanians and Orthodox Albanians with town inhabitants being ethnoreligiously split among various Ottoman millets, with Greek Patriarchists being the largest community, followed by Bulgarian Exarchists and the Ullah Millet for the Aromanians. According to the ethnographer Vasil Kanchov's statistics based on linguistic affinity, at that time the town's inhabitants counted: 4,950 Bulgarians, 4,000 Vlachs (Aromanians) and 400 Orthodox Albanians. When the anthropologist Keith Brown visited Kruševo on the eve of the 21st century, he discovered that the local Aromanian language still has no way to distinguish "Macedonian" and "Bulgarian", and uses the designation Vrgari, i.e. "Bulgarians", for both ethnic groups. This upsets the younger generations of Macedonians in the town, since being Bulgarian has remained a stigma since Yugoslav times. Gallery See also Strandzha Commune Ilinden (memorial) Militsiya of the Kruševo Republic References Sources Силянов, Христо. Освободителните борби на Македония, т. I, София 1933, гл. VI.1 13-те дена на Крушевската република, Георги Томалевски The Republic of Krushevo and the Ilinden uprising States and territories established in 1903 States and territories disestablished in 1903 Conflicts in 1903 Former republics Former Slavic countries Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire Manastir vilayet Ottoman Kruševo Rebellions against the Ottoman Empire Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian rebellions History of the Aromanians