Dimitar Popgeorgiev
Bulgarian revolutionary (1840–1907)
Berovski as Bulgarian officer

Dimitar Popgeorgiev Berovski (Bulgarian: Димитър Попгеоргиев Беровски, Macedonian: Димитар Поп-Георгиев Беровски, 1840 – 1907) was a Bulgarian revolutionary[1][2][3] from Ottoman Macedonia. He was one of the leaders of the Razlovci uprising and Kresna-Razlog Uprising.

Biography

Bust of Berovski in his native Berovo.

He was born on 1840 in Berovo, Ottoman empire, (present-day North Macedonia).[4] 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.[5] Later he moved to Constantinople and became one of the activists of the newly established Bulgarian Exarchate.[6] In 1875 Berovski was among the leaders of the Association "Bulgarian Dawn" in Thessaloniki.[7] During tге period 1863 - 1876, Dimitar Popgeorgiev maintained correspondence with Stefan Verkovic.[8] In 1876 Berovski was one of the leaders of Razlovci uprising.[9] In an encounter with the Ottomans, he was wounded, but managed to escape to the Maleševo Mountains, after the uprising was suppressed. He also participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and later was one of the leaders of the Kresna-Razlog Uprising.[4] At that time he was authorized to went to Constituent Bulgarian Parliament appealing versus the signing of the Treaty of Berlin and in maintenance of Unification of Bulgaria and Macedonia, representing Macedonian Bulgarians on its first session.[10][11]

After the failure of the uprising, he moved in Principality of Bulgaria and worked as a Bulgarian police officer and district governor.[12] in Kyustendil, Tsaribrod and Radomir. Berovski took part in the Unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia and in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. In 1884, he retired to the village of Dolna Grashtitsa, Kyustendil region, where he purchased a farm and engaged in agriculture. Later during the 1890s he was member and for a period president of the Kyustendil Macedonian Society which supported the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC).[13] Later, his house became a border post of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization for the transfer of revolutionaries to the Ottoman Empire.[14] For a short time in 1902, Popgeorgiev served as mayor of Kyustendil. He died in Kyustendil in 1907.[15] His son Stanimir Berovski was a public figure and regional governor of Kyustendil district from the Progressive Liberal Party (Bulgaria).[16] Some of his personal belongings are kept in the monastery "St Archangel Michael" which serves as the city museum of Berovo.[17]

See also

Literature

  • "Възвание към българските граждани", Кюстендил, 25 ноември 1897 година - After the Vinitsa affair, Dimitar Popgeorgiev issues a proclamation to the Bulgarian people, 1897.

References

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  1. ^ Писмо на Димитър Беровски от Кюстендил — внук на Димитър Попгеоргиев Беровски, изпратено до редакцията на в. „Поглед”, с молба да бъде публикувано, да сподели с читателите на вестника неговите огорчения от определен кръг скопски автори, присвоили си правото да бъдат национални прекръстители на неговото семейство [1]
  2. ^ Гоцев, Славе. Национално-революционни борби в Малешево и Пиянец 1860–1912, София 1988, с. 26
  3. ^ Чолов, П., „Българските въоръжени чети и отряди през XIX век“, София, 2003, Академично издатеслтво „Марин Дринов“, ISBN 954-430-922-5, стр. 212 – 213.
  4. ^ a b Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0-8108-6295-6, p. 26.
  5. ^ Д. Дойнов, Националнореволюционните борби в Югозападна България през 60-те и 70-те години на XIX век, С., 1976, с. 102.
  6. ^ ТРИДЕСЕТ ГОДИНИ НАЗАД - Исторически записки по първото македонско въстание през 1876 г. Коте Попстоянов (Съставител Бойко Киряков, Издателство на Отечествения Фронт, София, 1988)[2]
  7. ^ Попстоянов, Коте. Тридесет години назад. Исторически записки по първото македонско въстание през 1876 г., Издателство на Отечествения Фронт, София, 1988, стр. 15.
  8. ^ Димитър Беровски, Димитър Попгеоргиев Беровски. Живот и дело.
  9. ^ Freedom or death, the life of Gotsé Delchev, Mercia MacDermott, Journeyman Press, 1978, ISBN 0-904526-32-1, pp. 41–42.
  10. ^ Credentials for the participation of Bulgarians from Macedonia in the Constituent Assembly of the Principality [3]
  11. ^ Защо Македония се е превърнала в национална кауза за българите. Откъс от „История на българите от Македония“ на акад. Григор Велев.
  12. ^ Регионален исторически музей - Кюстендил
  13. ^ Елдъров, Светлозар. Кюстендилско македоно-одринско дружество (1895 – 1903), във: Върховният македоно-одрински комитет и Македоно-одринската организация в България (1895 – 1903), Иврай, София, ISBN 9789549121063, 2003, стр. 280.
  14. ^ Ангел Джонев, Кюстендил - военната столица на България през Първата световна война. Кюстендилци и Кюстендилският край във въоръжения конфликт (1915-1918), Регионален исторически музей - Кюстендил, 2017, стр. 17.
  15. ^ Пелтеков, Александър Г. Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско. Второ допълнено издание. София, Орбел, 2014. ISBN 9789544961022. с. 48.
  16. ^ Енциклопедичен речник Кюстендил (А-Я). София, Общински народен съвет, Регионален център по култура. Издателство на Българската академия на науките, 1988. ISBN 954-90993-1-8. с. 49.
  17. ^ "Living Heritage". 2007-09-11. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
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