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Dimitar Miladinov

Died in 1862

Dimitar Miladinov was born around 1810 in Struga. Educated at the monastery of Saint Naum, in Ohrid, then at the Greek lyceum of Ioannina, he taught in Ohrid, Struga, Bitola, Prilep and Kukush, and fought the Hellenization of schools and clergy. For years he collected folk songs in the towns where he taught. Denounced as a Russian agent by the Greek bishop, he was imprisoned in Constantinople in 1861 and died there in January 1862.

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