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Jordan Hadzi Konstantinov-Dzinot

Died in 1882

Jordan Hadži Konstantinov, known as Džinot, was born in Veles around 1821, in the Prcorek quarter, to a father who was sacristan of the church where the school was held. Trained at Samokov and Thessaloniki, he taught in Veles from 1838 in the language of his pupils, then in Skopje from 1848 to 1857, where they performed his plays, among the first of that country. He wrote for newspapers in Constantinople and Belgrade, collected popular creations, lost an eye on the road to exile in Asia Minor in 1861, and died in Veles in August 1882.

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