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Petko Slaveykov

Died in 1895

Petko Slaveykov was born in 1827 in Tarnovo, the son of the coppersmith Racho. Educated in the schools of his town, in neighbouring monasteries and in Svishtov, he was dismissed from his post as a schoolteacher for a satirical poem against the Greek bishops, then taught in many towns and collected thousands of songs and proverbs. Called to Constantinople in 1864 for the Bulgarian translation of the Bible, he published the newspapers Gayda and Makedoniya there. President of the National Assembly and a minister in 1880 and 1881, he died in Sofia on 1 July 1895.

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