Dimo Hadzhidimov

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Dimo Hadzhidimov (1875, Ano Vrontou, today Greece – 1924, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a 20th-century revolutionary from Macedonia. He was among the leaders of the left wing of Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees. Hadzhidimov studied pedagogy in Kyustendil and then in Sofia. After that he worked as a teacher in the Bulgarian schools in Dupnitsa and later in Samokov. He also participated in Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the Young Turks revolution he retrieved in Macedonia and was one of the founders of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section). He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria.

After 1909 he went back to Sofia, where Hadzhidimov entered Bulgarian Communist Party. During the Balkan Wars Hadzhidimov served as Bulgarian soldier. After the First World War he was elected as a member of Bulgarian Parliament. He was assassinated from IMRO's right wing activist Vlado Chernozemski in Sofia in 1924.