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Krste Petkov Misirkov

Died in 1926

Krste Petkov Misirkov was born in 1874 in Postol, in the then Ottoman region of Salonica. He did his early studies in Belgrade, then went to Russia and studied Slavic philology in Saint Petersburg. A teacher at the Bitola lycée, he took part in an ethnographic expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founded a journal and divided his life between the Balkans and Russia. A philologist, historian and publicist, he died in Sofia on 26 July 1926.

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