Dimitar Popgeorgiev

Dimitar Popgeorgiev Berovski (Димитър Попгеоргиев Беровски, Димитар Попѓоргиев Беровски, 1840 – 1907) was a Bulgarian revolutionary  from Ottoman Macedonia. He was one of the leaders of the Razlovci uprising and Kresna-Razlog Uprising.

Biography
He was born on 1840 in Berovo (present-day North Macedonia). He studied in Odessa where he met 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. Later he emigrated to Istanbul and became one of the members of the Bulgarian Exarchate. In 1876 Berovski was one of the leaders of Razlovci uprising. 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 Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and was a leader of the Kresna-Razlog 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 a 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 (IMARO). Some of his personal belongings are kept in the monastery "St Archangel Michael" which serves as the city museum of Berovo.

Literature

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