Giorgio Nurigiani ( hy, Ջորջո Նուրիջանի, 1892–1981) was an Italian writer, publicist, linguist and historian from Rome. He is of Armenian origin.

Italian – Macedonian relations

He was born in

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. His grandfather's brother was the Patriarch of Armenian Catholics of

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. Before World War II, Nurigiani resided in Sofia ( Bulgaria), where he learned about the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and he started to support their ideals. He wrote a couple of books and studies on

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matters.Encyclopedia Macedonica, Skopje 2009, pg. 1060 In 1967 he collaborated with the Macedonian linguist Naum Kitanovski and they published an Italian – Macedonian dictionary.

Works

* ''Grammatica bulgara ad uso degli italiani. Con pref. di S. Mladenov'', Sofia 1920 * ''Dieci anni di vita bulgara (1920 – 1930)'', Sofia 1931, 224 p. * ''Il paese delle rose Bulgaria'', Sofia 1936, 34 p. * ''Glorie bulgare'', Sofia 1942, 207 с. * ''Macedonia Yesterday and Today'' (1967) * ''The Autocephalous Macedonian Orthodox Church and Its Head Dositej'' (1968) * ''The Macedonian Genius Through the Centuries'' (1972)

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1892 births 1981 deaths Macedonian Question Italian male writers Italian journalists Italian literary critics {{Italy-writer-stub