1. Georgi Pulevski is known today as one of the first authors to express the idea of a distinct Macedonian nation and Macedonian language.
17 Facts About Georgi Pulevski
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Georgi Pulevski was born in the village of Galicnik in the Mijak tribal region in 1817.
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At the age of 45, Georgi Pulevski fought as a member of the First Bulgarian Legion in 1862 against the Ottoman siege at Belgrade.
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Georgi Pulevski participated as a volunteer in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising, referred to as Macedonian uprising by insurgents.
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In 1883, aged 66, Georgi Pulevski received a government pension in recognition of his service as a Bulgarian volunteer.
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Georgi Pulevski settled in the village of Progorelec, near Lom, Bulgaria, where he received gratuitously agricultural land from the state.
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In 1875, Georgi Pulevski published Dictionary of Three Languages in Belgrade.
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Georgi Pulevski chose to write in the local Macedonian rather than the Bulgarian standard based on eastern Tarnovo dialects.
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Georgi Pulevski stated that the Macedonians were a separate nation and advocated for the Macedonian language.
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Georgi Pulevski incorporated Kuzman Shapkarev's 1868 primer Elementary Knowledge for Little Children into the work.
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Georgi Pulevski acknowledged Macedonia as a multilingual and multiethnic region.
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Georgi Pulevski's next published works were a revolutionary poem, Samovila Makedonska, published in 1878, and a Macedonian Song Book in two volumes, published in 1879, which contained both folk songs collected by Pulevski and some original poems by himself.
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In 1880, Georgi Pulevski published Slavjano-naseljenski makedonska slognica recovska, a work that is known as the first attempt at a grammar of Macedonian.
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Georgi Pulevski claimed that the Macedonians were descendants of the ancient Macedonians.
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Georgi Pulevski considered the Mijaks to be a subgroup of the Macedonians.
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Georgi Pulevski viewed Macedonian identity as being a regional phenomenon, similar to Herzegovinians and Thracians.
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Georgi Pulevski himself identified as a mijak galicki, sometimes described himself as a "Serbian patriot" and viewed his ethnic designation as "Bulgarian from the village of Galicnik", thus he changed his self-identification several times during his lifetime.