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Larry Koroloff

Larry Koroloff (Bulgarian: Лабро (Лари) Лазов Королов) is a Bulgarian-Canadian historian,[1] linguist,[2][3][4][5][6][7] and educator, activist of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization,[8] editor-in-chief of the “Macedonian Tribune” newspaper,[9] and head of the patriotic organization “Macedonia: Switzerland on the Balkans”, situated in Toronto.[10]

Larry Koroloff
Larry Koroloff photo
Born1951 (age 72–73)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityBulgariaCanada
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Occupation(s)teacher, historian, publicist
OrganizationMacedonian Patriotic Organization
Awards“Golden Laurel Branch”

Biography

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Larry Koroloff was born in 1951 in Toronto, Canada, in the family of the Bulgarian émigré Lazar Koroloff.[11][12] Through his mother's family he is a relative of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionaries Nikola Kuzinchev and Lazar Poptraykov. Koroloff has graduated from the University of Toronto, where he studied French and Russian philology and pedagogy.[12] He has taught history, French, Russian, and English, as well as English literature, in various high schools in his home city.[12]

 
Koroloff receiving the “Golden Laurel Branch” award, 10 October 2017

Koroloff has authored scientific publications on the Kostur dialect. His book about the village of Drenoveni in the Kastoria region, where both his paternal and maternal ancestors lived, has received praise from the scientific community as a source of “unique ethnographic, linguistic, and historical information”, which “greatly enhances our understanding of the history, ethnology, and the language of the southwesternmost parts of Macedonia” and “will be the basis for any further research in that field“.[2] The book presents the history, language, traditions, and folklore of the village and the surrounding region in the Aegean Macedonia.[2][12] It also covers the activity of the Bulgarian Exarchate и IMARO, historic events like the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, as well as the Greek administration in the 1912–1950 years.[2][12] The research is based on interviews with numerous people from the village, who had emigrated to North America, and on voluminous historiographical and dialectological literature.[2][12] Larry Koroloff also financed the printing of the book “Bulgarian Dialect Texts from Aegean Macedonia“ of the notable Bulgarian dialectologist and phonologist Blagoy Shklifov, and sponsored its publication by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2003.[10]

Larry Koroloff was a member of the Central Committee of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in 2010–2014.[8][12] He was the editor-in-chief from September 2011 to June, 2023, of the “Macedonian Tribune” newspaper, “the oldest Macedonian newspaper in the world published continuously since February 10, 1927”.[9][12][13]

Koroloff has been awarded with the highest award of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the “Golden Laurel Branch”, for his “many-year activity and contribution to the preservation of the Bulgarian nature of the [Macedonian Patriotic Organization], for strengthening of the national and cultural identity of the Bulgarian emigrants in Canada”.[12][14]

“Your life and your deed are an example of inspiration. I hope that many young Bulgarians, both here and beyond the Atlantic Ocean, will follow your deed. Thank you for passing over the Bulgarian national spirit to the future generations and thus making us feel worthy for being Bulgarians and living in these lands”[14]

— Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev on presenting the “Golden Laurel Branch” award to Larry Koroloff

Bibliography

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  • Koroloff, Larry, Drenòveni: The Life and Demise of a Macedonian Village, Pickering, ON, Britannia Printers, 2016, 342 pages, ISBN 978-177-1363-92-1 (in English)
  • Королов, Лари-Лабро, Дренòвени: Разцвет и разорение на едно село в Южна Македония, София, Македонски научен институт, 2016, 360 с., ISBN 978-954-8187-98-5 (in Bulgarian)

Notes

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  1. ^ "Contents". Sho Stava. II (12). Fort Wayne, IN: Macedonian Patriotic Organization: 1. 1978. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e Кайчев, Наум (2017). "Лари-Лабро Королов и неговата книга за с. Дреновени, Костурско, в отзивите на трима български учени" (PDF). Македонски преглед (in Bulgarian) (3). София: Македонски научен институт: 133–142. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  3. ^ Koroloff, Larry Labro. Notes on the Dialect of Zhèrveni, Kostur Region, as Spoken by Their Descendants in Mustafapaşa and Cemilköy, Turkey. In: „Slověne“, №2, p. 112-116.
  4. ^ Лари-Лабро Королов (Канада) Развоят на праславянските *tj/ktj и *dj/gdj в диалектите на четири села в Югозападна Македония, Македонски преглед, 2018, кн. 4 с. 109-116
  5. ^ Лари (Лабро) Королов, Бележка за формите на лексемата „български“ в диалектите на Югозападна и Южна Централна Македония Македонски преглед, 2020, кн. 1 c. 145-148
  6. ^ Королов, Лари-Лабро (Канада). Диалектен текст от село Въмбел, Костурско. Свидетелство за миналото на българите в южна Македония през първата половина на XX век. // Македонски преглед XLV (3). 2022. с. 68 - 79 https://www.academia.edu/93598273/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%92%D1%8A%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%8E%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7_%D0%BF%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_XX_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA
  7. ^ Лари –Лабро Королов. „Два диалектни текста с исторически свидетелства от селата Габреш и Дреновени, Костурско“ , Македонски преглед, година XLVI/2, 2023, стр. 143 - 154 https://www.academia.edu/108278418/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0_%D1%81_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%88_%D0%B8_%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_
  8. ^ a b "Central Committee 2010-2011". Macedonian Patriotic Organization. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  9. ^ a b "Macedonian Tribune - Contact the Editor". Macedonian Patriotic Organization. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  10. ^ a b Тасова, Тася (2009-10-30). "Лабро Королов - изхвърлен с тежки думи от МПО Канада заради Спаска". emigrant-bg.com (in Bulgarian). Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  11. ^ Шклифов, Благой (2003). Български диалектни текстове от Егейска Македония (in Bulgarian). София: Академично издателство „Проф. Марин Дринов“. p. 5. ISBN 954-430-914-4. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Дреновени – Торонто – София. Лари Королов представи книга за предците си". EuroChicago.com (in Bulgarian). 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  13. ^ "About the Macedonian Tribune". Macedonian Patriotic Organization. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  14. ^ a b "Deputy Minister Georgiev presented the Golden Laurel Branch to Larry Koroloff". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria. 2017-10-10. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
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