Dimitar Popgeorgiev
Bulgarian revolutionary (1840–1907)
Dimitar Popgeorgiev Berovski (Bulgarian: Димитър Попгеоргиев Беровски, Macedonian: Димитар Поп-Георгиев Беровски, 1840 – 1907) was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia. He was one of the leaders of the Razlovci uprising and Kresna-Razlog Uprising.
Biography
He was born on 1840 in Berovo, Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). He studied in Odessa where he met the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Sava Rakovski and fell under his influence. Later Berovski participated in his Bulgarian Legion in Belgrade. Then he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in Macedonia. For his anti-Greek Orthodox Church policy Berovski was jailed. For a brief period, he became an adherent of the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church. Later he moved to Constantinople and became one of the activists of the newly established Bulgarian Exarchate. In 1875, Berovski was among the leaders of the Association "Bulgarian Dawn" in Thessaloniki.
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