1. Dimitar Blagoev Nikolov was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher.
16 Facts About Dimitar Blagoev
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Dimitar Blagoev was the founder of the Bulgarian left-wing political movement and of the first social-democratic party in the Balkans, the Marxist Bulgarian Social Democratic Party.
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Dimitar Blagoev was a prominent proponent of ideas for the establishment of a Balkan Federation.
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Dimitar Blagoev is usually regarded and self-identified as a Bulgarian, and occasionally as a Macedonian Slav.
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Dimitar Blagoev was born in the village of Zagorichani in the region of Macedonia, at that time part of the Ottoman Empire.
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Dimitar Blagoev learned consequently in Bulgarian Exarchate's schools in Istanbul, Adrianople, Gabrovo and Stara Zagora.
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Dimitar Blagoev was arrested on 1 March 1885, and extradited to Bulgaria, settled in Sofia and began to propagate socialist ideas.
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In 1894, Dimitar Blagoev's supporters agreed to unite with the Unionists in the interests of working class unity and took the name Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party.
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Dimitar Blagoev was a founder and became the leader of its left wing, which split from the BSDWP in 1903 to found the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party.
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Dimitar Blagoev was activist of the Plovdiv Macedonian-Adrianople Committee, and its chairman from 1897.
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From 1897 to 1923 Dimitar Blagoev directed the publication of the party's theoretical organ, the journal "Novo vreme", which published more than 500 of his articles.
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In 1905, Dimitar Blagoev translated into Bulgarian the first volume of Das Kapital and a number of other works by Marx.
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Dimitar Blagoev led the delegations of narrow socialists at the Balkan socialist conferences in Belgrade and Bucharest.
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Dimitar Blagoev was against foreign intervention by the Great Powers in Southeast Europe, believed in a Balkan Federative Republic and opposed Bulgaria's military engagements in the Second Balkan War and First World War.
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Dimitar Blagoev led the Narrow Socialists into the Communist International in 1919, and the party changed its name to the Bulgarian Communist Party.
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Dimitar Blagoev was author of a number of research essays on questions of Marxist philosophy, political economy, history, esthetics, and Bulgarian literature.