Petar Chaulev

Petar Chaulev (; ; 1882 – December 23, 1924) was a Bulgarian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia. He was a local leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Biography He was born into an Orthodox Albanian family in Ohrid. His father was a Tosk Albanian fisherman from southern Albania. Chaulev was fluent in Albanian, and spent several years living in Albania where he was nicknamed 'Petrush'. He graduated from the Bulgarian High School in Bitola. He taught in Ohrid and the village of Popolzhani in the Lerin (Florina) region. Chaulev was an organizer of the revolutionary committees in the Ohrid, Prespa and Lerin regions in the 1890s. In the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he was a voivode and head of the Ohrid revolutionary committee. As a member of the Central Committee, he was responsible for organizing armed actions from Italy and Albania, but was unable to cope with this task. He established contacts with representatives of the Soviet embassy in Rome and with Communist International figures. Under pressure by the Bulgarian government, Aleksandrov and Protogerov denied that they had ever signed any agreement, claiming that the May Manifesto was a communist forgery. Chaulev, who did not abandon the Manifesto and was suspected as involved in Aleksandrov's murder, was assassinated in Milan on December 23, 1924, by IMRO revolutionary , on the orders of Ivan Mihaylov.