Dimitar Vlahov | |
|---|---|
 Revolutionary and politician from Macedonia | |
| Member of the Ottoman Parliament | |
| In office Fall 1908 – January 1910 (when he resigns from the Federative Party) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 November 1878 Kukush, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Died | 7 April 1953 (aged 74) Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia) |
| Political party | People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) |
Dimitar Vlahov (Bulgarian: Димитър Влахов; Macedonian: Димитар Влахов; 8 November 1878 – 7 April 1953) was a politician from the region of Macedonia and member of the left wing of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement (also known as Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO)). As with many other IMRO members of the time, historians from North Macedonia consider him an ethnic Macedonian and in Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian. According to Dimitar Bechev, Vlahov declared himself until the early 1930s as a Bulgarian and afterwards as an ethnic Macedonian.[1]
- ^ Though, in the 1920s Vlahov, as well as the IMRO-U as a whole, still defined the Slavs of Macedonia as Bulgarians, by the 1930s his views had evolved in support of a separate Macedonian ethnic nation that he saw, faithful to the Marxist theories on nationhood, as a product of the advent of capitalism to Macedonia in the 19th century rather than a primordial fact. For more see: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0810862956, p. 235.