Toma Ivanov Karayovov ( bg, Тома Иванов Карайовов) was a

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diplomat and publicist.

Biography

Toma Karayovov was born c. 1875 in Skopje, Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the

Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki The Sts. Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki ( bg, Солунска българска мъжка гимназия „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, ''Solunska balgarska mazhka gimnazia „Sv. sv. Kiril i ...

and Law at Sofia University. From 1897 to 1900 he was secretary of the Bulgarian commercial agencies in

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and Edirne, of the diplomatic agencies in Vienna (1904-1905) and Rome (1907-1908). After the Young Turk Revolution initiated the establishment of the

Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs (also known as ''Union of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs'') ( bg, Съюз на българските конституционни клубове) was an ethnic Bulgarian political party in the Ottoman Empire, ...

and its chairman. After the First World War he is foreign representative of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), one of the founders of the Macedonian Scientific Institute and a full member. Toma Karayovov died in 1950 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

References

* Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for historical research - "The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 - Memory and history", Sofia, 2012, Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, , p. 424-439 {{DEFAULTSORT:Karayovov, Toma 1875 births 1950 deaths Bulgarian diplomats Diplomats from Skopje Members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki alumni