Dimitar Hristov Rizov or Rizoff ( bg, Димитър Христов Ризов, mk, Димитар Христов Ризов; 1862 – 1918) was a

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and

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Life

Rizov was born in 1860 in

Manastır Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki ...

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(today

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). At first he studied in his native town and then he continued study in

Plovdiv Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ...

(Filibe). In 1881 he opened a book store in Manastır, and a year later he was an Exarchist's school inspector of the

schools in Macedonia. In 1884 he began to participate in the

politics; became an editor of the

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newspaper ''Tarnovo Constitution''. Rizov was a part of the immigrant wave in the

Eastern Rumelia Eastern Rumelia ( bg, Източна Румелия, Iztochna Rumeliya; ota, , Rumeli-i Şarkî; el, Ανατολική Ρωμυλία, Anatoliki Romylia) was an autonomous province (''oblast'' in Bulgarian, ''vilayet'' in Turkish) in the Otto ...

n capital Plovdiv, where he actively participated in the

Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee (BSCRC) was a Bulgarian revolutionary organization founded in Plovdiv, then in Eastern Rumelia on February 10, 1885. The original purpose of the committee was to gain autonomy for the region of Mace ...

and in the preparations for the

Bulgarian unification The Unification of Bulgaria ( bg, Съединение на България, ''Saedinenie na Balgariya'') was the act of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885. It was co-ordinated ...

.Antonova Il., Marinkova V., Mitev Pl., Antonov Al., ''History of Bulgaria — Encyclopedia A-Z'', Sofia (Антонова Ил., Маринкова В., Митев Пл., Антонов Ал., ''История на България — Енциклопедия А-Я'', София), 2001, , стр. 319-320 He was a member of the temporary revolutionary government in Plovdiv on September 6–9, 1885. Rizov was an MP in the Third Great National Assembly (Parliament)(1886–87). In 1887 he continued his education in

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with an

Evlogi Georgiev Evlogi Georgiev () (3 October 1819 – 5 July 1897) was a major Bulgarian merchant, banker and benefactor. The main building of the Sofia University was built with a large financial donation by him and his brother Hristo Georgiev (patron), Hris ...

stipend. Rizov was an editor of the newspapers ''Hristo Botev'', and co-editor (with Andrey Lyapchev) of ''Young Bulgaria'' (1895–1896). He co-edited ''Self-defense'' (1885), ''Macedonian Voice'' (1885–1887), ''Independence'' (1886), and other newspapers. He is an author of the first ''Ethnography of Macedonia'' (1881, in French) and of a number of pamphlets on Bulgarian foreign policies. In 1895, Dimitar Rizov was elected a member of

Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), ( bg, Върховен македоно - одрински комитет, (ВМОК)), also known as Supreme Macedonian Committee was a Bulgarian paramilitary and political organization, active i ...

at the organization's Second Regular Congress. Since 1897 Dimitar Rizov worked as a diplomat. He was a Bulgarian ambassador in Üsküp, now

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(1897–1899), diplomatic agent in

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(1903–1905),

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(1905–1907), plenipotentiary minister in

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(1908–1915), and Berlin (1915–1918). In 1917 in

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, together with his brother, Nikola Rizov (also diplomat and publicist), he published the Atlas '' Bulgarians in their historical, ethnographic, and political frontiers, Berlin 1917'', containing 40 maps and explanatory texts in

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, and

. Of special significance are the maps, drawn by the leading Bulgarian scientists Prof.

Anastas Ishirkov Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov ( bg, Анастас Тодоров Иширков; 5 April 1868 – 6 April 1937) was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a ...

(geography) and Prof.

Vasil Zlatarski Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski ( bg, Васил Николов Златарски; – 15 December 1935) was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist. Life Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest c ...

(history). The atlas contains facsimiles of maps by

Pavel Jozef Šafárik Pavel Jozef Šafárik ( sk, Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists. Famil ...

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, Lejean, F. Hahn and Zach, Mackensie and Irby, Prof. Erben, Elisée Reclus, Kiepert, Synvet, Vasil Kantschoff, and others. BTCRK

Rizov often changed his political positions for which he was known with the nickname "The Man of the Hundred Opinions".Encyclopedia Bulgaria For his opposition to

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, Rizov was sent to prison; later, however, Rizov accepted the Kniaz's regime and political aims. With respect to the Bulgarian national question, and, in particular, to the Macedonian Question, Rizov is unwavering in defending the rights of

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...

living outside of the Bulgarian borders.

References

* Durham, Mary Edith.
Twenty years of the Balkan tangle
', BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2007, , p. 83, Project Gutenberg e-text # 19669 * ''Encyclopedia Bulgaria'', Bulgarian Academy of Science Publishers, vol. 5, Sofia (''Енциклопедия България'', т. 5, Издателство на БАН, София), 1986. * Radev, Simeon.
Builders of modern Bulgaria
', vol. 1, Sofia (Симеон Радев, ''Строители на съвременна България'', т. 1, София), 1973, стр. 494–496, 506-508 * Topencharov, Vl. ''Bulgarian Journalism 1885-1903'', 2nd ed., Sofia (Топенчаров Вл., ''Българската журналистика 1885-1903'', 2 изд., София), 1983

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