Died 3 July 1926, Širok Sokak, Bitola, Macedonia (FYROM) | ||
Spasoje Hadži Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Спасоје Хаџи Поповић; 18 August 1882 – 3 July 1926) was a Serbian teacher in Bitola and newspaper editor of Južne Zvezde (Southern Stars). He was born in Akritas (known as Buf in Slavic), in Florina (now Greece). Growing up, he was a witness to the conflict between the Constantinopolitan Patriarchate and Bulgarian Exarchate which divided the Slavic Christian people in Ottoman Macedonia. He enrolled in the Serbian Gymnasium in Bitola in 1899. He then enrolled in the teacher school in Aleksinac, which had been moved there from Belgrade, together with many pupils from Ottoman territory. He was a member of the Saint Sava Society. He was murdered by VMRO agents, who made a range of assassinations and terrorist acts against Serbs at that time.