Dimitar Popgeorgiev

Who was Dimitar Popgeorgiev?

Dimitar Popgeorgiev Berovski was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian by historians from the Republic of Macedonia.

He studied in Odessa where he met Georgi Sava Rakovski and fell under his influence. Later Berovski participated in 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 emigrated to Istanbul and became one of the members of the Bulgarian Exarchate. In 1876 Berovski was one of the leaders of Razlovtsi uprising. He also participated in the Russo-Turkish War and was a leader of the Kresna-Razlog Uprising uprising.

Later he was authorized to telegraph to Constituent Bulgarian Parliament versus the signing of the Treaty of Berlin and in maintenance of Unification of Bulgaria and to represent Bulgarians from Macedonia on its sessions. After that he еmigrated in Bulgaria and worked as Bulgarian police officer and district governor in Kyustendil, Tsaribrod and Radomir. Berovski took part in the Bulgarian unification and in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. Later he supported Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Some of his personal belongings are kept in the monastery “St Archangel Michael” which serves as the city museum of Berovo.