History
The village was the venue of the IMRO's Smilevo Congress of 1903, at which the decision for uprising against the Ottoman rule in Macedonia was taken by the most prominent members of IMRO.
It was attacked by IMRO's revolutionaries on August 2, 1903, which was marked as the beginning of the Ilinden uprising.
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