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Toma Ivanov Karayovov () was a Bulgarian 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 (, ''Solunska balgarska mazhka gimnazia „Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiy“'') was the first Bulgarian language, Bulgarian high school in Macedonia (region), Macedonia. One of th ...
and
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at
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. From 1897 to 1900 he was secretary of the Bulgarian commercial agencies in
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and
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, of the diplomatic agencies in
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(1904-1905) and
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(1907-1908). After the
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initiated the establishment of the
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and its chairman. After the
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he is foreign representative of
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...
(IMRO), one of the founders of the
Macedonian Scientific Institute The Macedonian Scientific Institute (MSI; ) is a Bulgarian scientific organization, which studies the region of Macedonia and mostly the Macedonian Bulgarians. The Institute issues the journal "Macedonian Review". Establishment and activity It wa ...
and a full member. Toma Karayovov died in 1950 in
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,
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.


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 1870s births 1950 deaths Diplomats for Bulgaria Diplomats from Skopje Members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki alumni People from the Ottoman Empire