Dimitar Popgeorgiev Berovski (, , 1840 – 1907) was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Ottoman

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. He was one of the leaders of the

Razlovci uprising The Razlovci uprising (; ) was a Bulgarian rebellion in the areas of Maleševo and Pijanec in Ottoman Macedonia, part of the April Uprising of 1876. The work on its preparation began in late 1875 in Thessaloniki. A revolutionary group was cre ...

and Kresna-Razlog Uprising.

Biography

He was born on 1840 in

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(present-day

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).Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, , p. 26. He studied in

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where he met

Georgi Sava Rakovski Georgi Stoykov Rakovski () (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival ...

and fell under his influence. Later Berovski participated in his

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. Then he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in Macedonia. For his anti-

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policy Berovski was jailed. For a brief period, he became an adherent of the

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. Later he emigrated to

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and became one of the members of the

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. In 1875 Berovski was among the leaders of the Association "Bulgarian Dawn" in Thessaloniki. In 1876 Berovski was one of the leaders of

. In an encounter with the Ottomans, he was wounded, but managed to escape to the Maleševo Mountains. The uprising was suppressed. He also participated in the

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and was a leader of the Kresna-Razlog Uprising. Later he was authorized to telegraph to Constituent

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versus the signing of the Treaty of Berlin and in maintenance of

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and to represent

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from Macedonia on its sessions. After that he еmigrated in

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and worked as a Bulgarian police officer and district governor in

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and Radomir. Berovski took part in the

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and in the

Serbo-Bulgarian War The Serbo-Bulgarian War or the Serbian–Bulgarian War (, ''Srăbsko-bălgarska voyna'', , ''Srpsko-bugarski rat''), a war between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Bulgaria, erupted on and lasted until . Despite Bulgaria's statu ...

in 1885. Later during the 1890s he was member and for a period president of the Kyustendil Macedonian Society which supported the

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(SMAC). For a short time in 1902, Popgeorgiev served as mayor of Kyustendil. He died in Kyustendil in 1907. Some of his personal belongings are kept in the monastery "St Archangel Michael" which serves as the city museum of

Literature

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

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