1. Stoyan Christowe was an American author, journalist and noted political figure in the state of Vermont.
24 Facts About Stoyan Christowe
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Stoyan Christowe was born in Konomladi, Ottoman Macedonia, 1 September 1898 to Mitra and Christo Naumof.
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Stoyan Christowe was the eldest of three children, preceding his brother, Vasil, and Mara, his sister.
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Stoyan Christowe longed to help overthrow the oppressive, 500-year long Ottoman rule, in order to bring freedom to Macedonia.
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At only 13-years-old, Stoyan Naumoff boarded the Oceanic in Naples, Italy, destined for the United States.
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Stoyan Christowe gradually learned English, making great efforts to assimilate to American culture.
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Stoyan Christowe enrolled at Valparaiso University in an effort to earn his high school diploma.
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Stoyan Christowe's writing career began as a contributor to The Torch, the college's newspaper.
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Stoyan Christowe was dispatched to the Balkans as a correspondont from 1927 to1929.
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In 1928, Stoyan Christowe, then using the surname "Hristov" visited Greece, but intentionally avoided the village of his birth for the fear of being conscripted as a soldier in the Greek army.
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Stoyan Christowe visited Bulgaria in 1934, just after the military government crackdown on the IMRO.
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Stoyan Christowe had struggled with the issue of his national identity since his teenage years.
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In 1939, Stoyan Christowe married Margaret Wooters, a writer from Philadelphia.
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In 1941, shortly after the US entered World War II, Stoyan Christowe was called to duty and worked as a military analyst covering the Balkans in the War Department for the next two years.
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Stoyan Christowe spent the next ten years writing articles, editorial pieces and book reviews for major American newspapers and magazines.
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Stoyan Christowe reinterpreted his understanding of his background after World War II and the establishment of the Macedonian state within the Yugoslav Federation, establishing himself as an ethnic Macedonian.
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Stoyan Christowe gave numerous lectures at college campuses in Austria, Germany and Yugoslavia speaking at college campuses and lecturing about American ideals.
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In 1952, Stoyan Christowe visited Skopje, the capital of Yugoslav Macedonia.
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Stoyan Christowe criticized the Marshal for his treatment of political dissidents.
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Stoyan Christowe won a seat in the Vermont Legislature as a state representative, serving two consecutive terms in 1961 and 1963.
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Stoyan Christowe ran for a senate seat in 1965, winning his county's Republican nomination in a landslide.
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Stoyan Christowe enjoyed relative notoriety as a writer during the 1930 and 1940s.
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Stoyan Christowe's writing capabilities allotted him the power to inspire and persuade his readers.
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Stoyan Christowe's numerous written works from his time as a correspondent in the Balkans contributed to the understanding of Southeastern European history in the early twentieth century.