Establishment of Kruševo Republic

Date: August 3, 1903 • Location: Krusevo, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1903.

Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.

The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.