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Georgi Rakovski

Died in 1867

Sabi Stoykov Popovich, who took the name Georgi Rakovski, was born in 1821 in Kotel. A pupil at monastery schools, in 1837 he entered the Greek college in Constantinople. Sentenced to death after a plan for an uprising in Brăila, he was sent to Marseille; arrested later with his father, he knew the prisons of Constantinople. In 1857 he published a Bulgarian newspaper in Novi Sad, soon banned, formed the first Bulgarian legion in Belgrade in 1862, then founded in Bucharest a committee charged with coordinating armed resistance. He died in Bucharest in October 1867.

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