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EMINENT PERSONS
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BACHO
KIRO PETROV (1835–1876) - a National Revival teacher, educator,
cultural worker, man of letters, poet and revolutionary, the leader of the
local revolutionary committee in Byala Cherkva. The organizer and inspirer
of the detachment that fought heroically with the Ottoman oppressors in Dryanovo Monastery
in 1876. He was hanged on 28 May 1876 in Veliko Tarnovo.
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who loves his people,
strives to work for its good!
Because we bear the name of Slavs,
wretched and oppressed everywhere,
we all live in grief and trouble,
we pine away under foreign yoke.
Bacho
Kiro Petrov |
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TSANKO
BAKALOV TSERKOVSKI (1869–1926) - a poet and fiction writer, a
representative of Bulgarian realistic literature. An eminent public worker
and politician, the founder of the Agrarian movement in Bulgaria and one of
the ideologists and leaders of the Bulgarian People's Agrarian Union. A
minister in the democratic government of Alexander Stamboliiski
(1920-1923 г.).
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The
grave of
Tsanko Tserkovski
in the area
Slaveevi Gori |
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DR.
RAIKO IVANOV DASKALOV (1886–1923) - an eminent worker of
the Agrarian Union, an ardent tribune, brave reformer and unsurpassed
orator. A minister in the Agrarian government of Alexander Stamboliiski(1920-1923).
He was murdered on 26.08.1923 by a hired assassin in Prague.
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PROF.
ALEXANDER BOURMOV (1911-1965) - a professor of Bulgarian history
in Sofia University and a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of
Science. The author of numerous articles, books and historical works. Prof.
Bourmov was the first chancellor of Veliko Tarnovo University.
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5220 Byala Cherkva, "Bacho Kiro
-1869" Cultural Club, tel. 06134/ 2509, 2549
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