The Temporary representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization ( Bulgarian:''Временно представителство на бившата Обединена Вътрешна Революционна Организация'') was a short-lasted organization founded by former members of the

Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...

in 1919 in

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, on the wake of the

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after the

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. The left-wing of IMARO, disturbed by the organization's increasing domination by the pro-

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''Vrhovists'', based on the declaration issued by the Sandanists in 1918, founded this Organization, aimed to avoid the partitition of the

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. It included

Gyorche Petrov Gyorche Petrov Nikolov,(; ) born Georgi Petrov Nikolov(; ) (April 2, 1865 – June 28, 1921), was a Macedonian Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).Dimo Hadzhidimov Dimo Hadzhidimov (, ; 19 February 1875 – 13 September 1924) was a Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and politician from Ottoman Macedonia. He was among the leaders of the left-wing of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which ...

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, Hristo Tatartchev,

Petar Pop Arsov Petar Poparsov () or Petar Pop Arsov (; 14 August 1868 – 1 January 1941) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, educator and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). He is regarded as an ...

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, Tushe Deliivanov,

Nikola Pushkarov Nikola Petkov Pushkarov ( Bulgarian Никола Петков Пушкаров) (1874–1934) was the first Bulgarian soil researcher and founder of the soil science in Bulgaria. He was also an activist of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolu ...

, Rizo Rizov, Anastas Lozanchev, Taskata Spasov-Serski, etc. The Organization issued a "Appeal to the Macedonian population and to the émigré population in Bulgaria" and send it to the representatives of the

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on the Peace conference in Paris. There the Temporary representation advocated for autonomy of Macedonia as a part of a future

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. It threatened the autonomous Macedonia as state populated by different people as Bulgarians, Greeks, Serbs, Turks, Vlahs, etc. In the parliamentary and local elections of 1919, the Temporary representation supported the candidates of the

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(BCP). The BCP sought to take the Organization over, in fact to transform it into its own section. Following the signing of the

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and the partition of Macedonia, the activity of the Temporary representation faded. In 1920 it was dissolved and most from its members joined the Bulgarian Emigrant Communist Union as part of BCP. Other members joined a number of different leftist organizations such as the

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. They all were opposed to the restoration of IMARO as a Bulgarian nationalist organization under the name IMRO, headed by

Todor Alexandrov Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Тодор Александров Попорушов; 4 March 1881 – 31 August 1924), anglicised as Todor Alexandrov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, Bulgarian army officer, pol ...

. Subsequently, most of them were killed in the strife among the Macedonian revolutionaries. At least until the middle of the 1920s, the former IMRO-left was not a united movement, unlike the right wing. In 1925 the most of its survivors joined the

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* Гребенаров, Александър, Легални и тайни организации на македонските бежанци в България (1918–1947), МНИ, София, 2006 г.,470 с. * The Communist party of Bulgaria: origins and development, 1883–1936, Joseph Rothschild, AMS Press, 1972, , p. 117.
„Националноосвободителната борба в Македония, 1919 - 1941 г.“, Колектив, Македонски Научен Институт.

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