Niko Popov
Niko Nikolow Popow (also written Niko Nikolov Popov , Bulgarian Нико Николов Попов ; born January 12, 1837 in Burgas , Ottoman Empire , † September 5, 1905 in Varna , Bulgaria ) was a Bulgarian politician and first mayor of the city of Burgas. Popov took part in the struggle for an independent Bulgarian church with his brother Simeon , who was bishop of Varna and Veliky Preslav .
Life
Niko Popov was born in the family of priests Nikola and Elena. Niko grew up in Burgas, where he attended the Greek church school, which at the time was the only Christian school in the city. With the support of the Russian consul in Burgas, Popov visited the Russian Empire from the Crimean War (1853-1856) to continue his education. It is not known if he finished his education. After the death of his father in 1858, Niko Popow took care of the maintenance of his siblings.
When the Ottoman-Turkish rule over the city of Burgas formally ended in the course of the Russo-Turkish Liberation War of 1877/78 on February 6, 1878, the city's first Bulgarian municipality was founded the next day, which Niko Popow elected as the first Bulgarian mayor. At that time, Burgas had around 3,000 inhabitants.
family
Niko Popow's father, Nikola, came from today's village of Fakija in the Strandscha Mountains and is related to the Bimbelowzi family on his father's side. Nikola moved to Burgas at the beginning of the 19th century, where he worked as a Bulgarian priest first in the Greek church and after the building of the Bulgarian church in the Bulgarian church of the city. Niko Popow's mother, Elene, comes from a Bulgarian-Greek-Albanian family. In addition to Simeon , Niko Popow had six other siblings - Zoopi, Koliopa, Odisej, Roxana, Paleolog and Olimpija.
Web links
- Short biography (PDF; 547 kB) on the website of the city of Burgas (Bulgarian)
- Stefan Pejkow, Petranka Dimitrova: The first mayor of Burgas. morskivestnik.com (Bulgarian). Retrieved October 21, 2011
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Mayor of Burgas February 7, 1878–29. August 1880 |
Yassen Russaliev |
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| SURNAME | Popov, Niko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popow, Niko Nikolow; Popov, Niko Nikolov; Попов, Нико Николов (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian industrialist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgas |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1905 |
| Place of death | Varna |