10 Facts About Dimitar Rizov

Dimitar Hristov Rizov or Rizoff was a Bulgarian revolutionary, publicist, politician, journalist and diplomat.

Dimitar Rizov was a part of the immigrant wave in the Eastern Rumelian capital Plovdiv, where he actively participated in the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee and in the preparations for the Bulgarian unification.

Dimitar Rizov was an MP in the Third Great National Assembly.

Dimitar Rizov was an editor of the newspapers Hristo Botev, and co-editor of Young Bulgaria.

Dimitar Rizov co-edited Self-defense, Macedonian Voice, Independence, and other newspapers.

Dimitar Rizov is an author of the first Ethnography of Macedonia and of a number of pamphlets on Bulgarian foreign policies.

In 1895, Dimitar Rizov was elected a member of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee at the organization's Second Regular Congress.

Dimitar Rizov was a Bulgarian ambassador in Uskup, now Skopje, diplomatic agent in Cetinje, Belgrade, plenipotentiary minister in Rome, and Berlin.

In 1917 in Berlin, together with his brother, Nikola Dimitar Rizov, he published the Atlas Bulgarians in their historical, ethnographic, and political frontiers, Berlin 1917, containing 40 maps and explanatory texts in German, English, French, and Bulgarian.

Dimitar Rizov often changed his political positions for which he was known with the nickname "The Man of the Hundred Opinions".