Cause of death Assassination Ethnicity Bulgarian | Occupation EducatorPolitician Name Dimo Hadzhidimov | |
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Born February 19, 1875 ( 1875-02-19 ) Gorno Brodi, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present day Greece) Similar People Vlado Chernozemski, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Stefan Stambolov, Ilia Pavlov, Emil Kyulev | ||
Dimo Hadzhidimov (Bulgarian: Димо Хаджидимов) (February 19, 1875 – September 13, 1924) was a 20th-century Bulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia. He is considered a Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia. He was among the leaders of the left wing of IMRO.
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Life
Hadzhidimov was born on February 19, 1875 in Ano Vrontou, now located in Serres regional unit, Greece . He studied pedagogy in Kyustendil and then in Sofia. After that he worked as a teacher in the Bulgarian schools in Dupnitsa and later in Samokov. He also participated in Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the Young Turks revolution he returned to Macedonia and was one of the founders of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section). After 1909 he went back to Sofia, where Hadzhidimov joined the Bulgarian Communist Party. During the Balkan Wars Hadzhidimov served as a Bulgarian soldier.
Death
After the First World War he was elected as a member of Bulgarian Parliament. He was assassinated by right wing IMRO activist Vlado Chernozemski in Sofia in 1924.
Legacy
His surname was given to Zhostovo village (now a town since 1996) in Blagoevgrad Province in 1951; It was renamed as Hadzhidimovo.
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This idea, [of authonomous Macedonia] nevertheless, remained a Bulgarian idea. Neither the Greeks, nor the Turks, nor any other nationality in Macedonia accepted that slogan... The idea of autonomous Macedonia developed most significantly after the creation of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (sic)...