Dimo Hadzhidimov

Dimo Hadzhidimov (Bulgarian: Димо Хаджидимов; 19 February 1875 – 13 September 1924) was a 20th-century Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and politician from Ottoman Macedonia.[1][2] He was among the leaders of the left wing of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which according to himself, was Bulgarian creation.[3][4][5] Though, he is considered a Macedonian in the Republic of North Macedonia.

Dimo Hadzhidimov
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Born(1875-02-19)19 February 1875
Gorno Brodi, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present day Greece)
Died13 September 1924(1924-09-13) (aged 49)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Cause of deathAssassination
NationalityBulgarian
OccupationEducator
Politician
OrganizationInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Political partyPeople's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section)
Bulgarian Communist Party

Life

Hadzhidimov was born on 19 February 1875 in Gorno Brodi, Ottoman Empire, now located in Serres regional unit, Greece. In 1880 his family emigrated from the Ottoman Empire and settled in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria. He studied pedagogy in Kyustendil and then in Sofia. At that time he was a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party. 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 Ottoman 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 Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists). During the Balkan Wars and WWI Hadzhidimov was a Bulgarian sergeant. He was captured in Thessaloniki during the Second Balkan War and was exiled by the Greek authorities to the island of Paleo Trikeri, where he contracted jaundice. He was later released and returned to Bulgaria. During the First World War, due to his deteriorating health, he served as a non-combatant. After the First World War he was elected as a member of Bulgarian Parliament from the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was assassinated by right-wing IMRO activist Vlado Chernozemski in Sofia in 1924. His surname was given to Zhostovo village (now a town since 1996) in Blagoevgrad Province in 1951; It was renamed as Hadzhidimovo.

Footnotes
  1. Димо Хаджидимов. Живот и дело. Боян Кастелов (Изд. на Отечествения Фронт, София, 1985)стр. 209 - 210
  2. Лист на македонската емиграция. С., № 1, април 1919.
  3. "This idea, (about an autonomous Macedonia) nevertheless, remained a Bulgarian idea until it disappeared even among the Bulgarians. 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 which was Bulgarian in respect of its members and proved to be well decided, of great military might and power of resistance. The leadership of the Macedonian Greeks could not rally under the banner of such an organization which would not, under any circumstances, serve Hellenism as a national ideal... In the face of Bulgaria, the Hellenic Kingdom and its agents in Macedonia saw a factor far more powerful and with a greater military prestige; this fact implied a negative treatment to the internal Bulgarian movement... Undoubtedly, since the Greeks of Macedonia, the second largest group following the Bulgarians, had a position like this vis-a-vis the idea of autonomy, the latter could hardly anticipate success."
  4. Hadjidimov, Dimo. "Назад към автономията [Back to the Autonomy]". Sofia. Retrieved 2017-02-15 – via Promacedonia.org.
  5. Marinov, Tchavdar (June 13, 2013). "Famous Macedonia, the Land of Alexander". In Daskalov, Roumen; et al. (eds.). National Ideologies and Language Policies. Entangled Histories of the Balkans. Vol. 1. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 305. ISBN 9789004250765.
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