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a photograph of slaveyko arsov gorno gyuganci , today republic of macedonia july 9 , 1904 novo present-day republic of macedonia -rrb- selo , kosovo vilayet , ottoman empire -lrb- 1877 or august 17 , 1878 slaveiko arsov.jpg slaveyko arsov
 slaveyko arsov imaro
slaveyko arsov

slaveyko arsov kikiritkov , known also as slavko arsov , was a bulgarian revolutionary , leader of the internal macedonian-adrianople revolutionary organization -lrb- imaro -rrb- for the region of resen .
he is regarded an ethnic macedonian in the republic of macedonia .
slaveyko arsov was born in 1878 in the village of novo selo -lrb- now part of Štip municipality in the republic of macedonia -rrb- , then part of the kosovo vilayet of the ottoman empire .
he finished his elementary education in his village .
he studied in skopje , and later , during 1897-1898 , in sofia .
his brother mihail became a member of the revolutionary organization imaro at the time when dame gruev and gotse delchev worked as teachers in Štip .
slaveyko arsov joined the imaro in 1896 .
at the end of 1899 , slaveyko arsov settled in kičevo , where he developed revolutionary activity .
he spent one year in prison , and in the autumn of 1901 he became a freedom fighter in marko lerinski 's revolutionary band .
with marko lerinski and gotse delchev , he toured the regions of kastoria , edessa , florina and bitola .
together with captain toma davidov , he participated in the activities of the inspection band .
in february 1902 , slaveyko arsov became a member of an independent revolutionary band in the region of bitola , and in the summer of the same year , in the region of resen .
in resen , he and nikola kokarev , -lrb- bg -rrb- created the first committees of the organization .
at the congress of smilevo , he was a delegate of the resen revolutionary region , together with aleksandar panayotov , velyan iliev and nikola kokarev .
before the ilinden-preobrazhenie uprising , toma nikolov and donka ushlinova joined the band of slaveyko arsov .
he participated in the ilinden-preobrazhenie uprising , after which he moved in bulgaria .
in 1904 , he came back to macedonia , together with the revolutionary bands led by atanas babata and stoyan donski .
on june 9 , 1904 , they were betrayed by local serbomans near the village of gorno gyugyantsi , kratovo region , and were surrounded by turkish military .
after 6 hours of battle , the freedom fighters began to withdraw .
the leader stoyan donski and 20 freedom fighters were killed .
slaveyko arsov , who was injured , took his own life .
