Slaveyko Arsov

Slaveyko Arsov Kikiritkov (, ) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) for the region of Resen.

Biography Slaveyko Arsov was born in 1878 in the village of Novo Selo (now part of Štip Municipality in the Republic of North Macedonia), 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 older brother Mihail became a member of the Štip committee of the revolutionary organization IMARO at the time when Dame Gruev and Gotse Delchev were its leaders and worked as teachers in Štip but he died in 1895 after being wounded accidentally during revolver practice. Arsov joined IMARO in 1896. At the end of 1899, Arsov settled in Kičevo, where he developed revolutionary activity. He spent one year in prison, and in 1901 he became a member of Marko Lerinski's revolutionary band. With Lerinski and Delchev, he toured the regions of Kastoria, Edessa, Florina and Bitola. After participating in Lerinski's band, he became the leader of his own band in Resen.

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