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
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and
Law
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at
Sofia University
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Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...
. From 1897 to 1900 he was secretary of the Bulgarian commercial agencies in
Bitola
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and
Edirne
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, of the diplomatic agencies in
Vienna
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(1904-1905) and
Rome
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(1907-1908). After the
Young Turk Revolution
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initiated the establishment of the
Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs
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and its chairman. After the
First World War
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he is foreign representative of
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
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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
Sofia
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,
Bulgaria
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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
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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