Dragi Gjorgiev (

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North M ...

: Драги Ѓоргиев; 28 April 1963) is a

academician and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

, specializing in the Ottoman period. He is also the director of the Institute of National History of

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Biography

Gjorgiev was born in the town of

Strumica Strumica ( mk, Струмица, ) is the largest city2002 census results
in English and Macedon ...

. In 1986 he graduated from the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje and in 1988 he was employed by the Institute of National History as a younger assistant. He later studied Oriental languages at the University of Sarajevo, graduating in 1991. He obtained his master's degree in 1995 at the Department of History of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, on the thesis "Skopje from the Turkish conquest to the end of the 17th century". Later that year, he became an assistant in the Department of Ottoman-Turkish Period at the Institute of National History. In 2004 he obtained his doctorate at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, with his dissertation "Population in the Macedonian-Albanian border zone in the 15th and 16th centuries". He returned to the Department of the Ottoman-Turkish Period at the Institute of National History as a research associate, and in 2007 was named a senior research associate, and in 2010 as a scientific advisor. Since 2012 he is the director of the Institute. He became an academician of the

Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( mk, Македонска Академија на Науките и Уметностите, МАНУ) is an academic institution in North Macedonia. History The Academy of Sciences and Arts was establ ...

in 2022. Gjorgiev is a member of multiple editorial boards, councils and institutions. He is also the co-chairman of the Joint Multidisciplinary Expert Commission of Experts on Historical and Educational Issues between North Macedonia and Bulgaria.

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