Dimitrija Čupovski

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Dimitrija Čupovski (Macedonian:Димитар Чуповски) (b. 1878, d. Saint Petersburg, 1940) was a Macedonian textbook writer and lexicographer. He is one of the founders of the of the Macedonian Literary Society and its President from 1902 to 1917. The author of a large number of articles and official documents, publisher of the printed bulletin of the Macedonian Colony, and organiser of several Macedonian associations, he wrote verse both in Russian and Macedonian. He produced the first Macedonian-Russian dictionary, worked on a Macedonian grammar and an encyclopaedic monograph on Macedonia and the Macedonians. He also has drew first true Macedonian ethnical and geographical map.