Giorgio Nurigiani

Giorgio Nurigiani (Armenian: Ջորջո Նուրիջանի, 1892–1981) was an Italian writer, publicist, linguist and historian from Rome. He is of Armenian origin.[1]

Italian – Macedonian relations

He was born in Livorno. His grandfather's brother was the Patriarch of Armenian Catholics of Constantinopole.[2] Before World War II, Nurigiani resided in Sofia (Bulgaria), where he learned about the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and he started to support their ideals. He wrote a couple of books and studies on Macedonian matters.[3] In 1967 he collaborated with the Macedonian linguist Naum Kitanovski and they published an Italian – Macedonian dictionary.

Works
  • Macedonia Yesterday and Today (1967)
  • The Autocephalous Macedonian Ortodox Church and Its Head Dositej (1968)
  • The Macedonian Genius Through the Centuries (1972)

Notes
  1. On the Dissemination of Bulgarian Literature in Italy, Novinite.com
  2. Artsvi Bakhchinyan, Prominent Armenians from Ancient Times to the Present, 2002, ISBN 99930-2-415-5, p. 168
  3. Encyclopedia Macedonica, Skopje 2009, pg. 1060



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