page_title: Nikola Milev
section_title: Milev in the Macedonian movement
hierarchical_section_title: Nikola Milev / Biography / Milev in the Macedonian movement
caption_attribution_description: Български: Паметна плоча на мястото на убийството на Никола Милев, София. English: Memorial plaque in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the place where Nikola Milev was killed by communists in 1925. Inscription in Bulgarian: На 13 ІІ 1925 тук бе убит Никола Милев виден български историк, публицист, общественик и родолюбец, родом от Костурско. English translation: On the 13th of February 1925 on this spot was killed Nikola Milev - famous Bulgarian historian, publicist, public figure and patriot, born in the region of Kastoria (now Greece).
context_page_description: Professor Nikola Iliev Milev was a Bulgarian historian, publicist, public figure, diplomat, and a participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement.
context_section_description: Nikola Milev joined IMORO as a student in 1898, but more actively joined the activities of the organizations of Macedonian Bulgarians after 1919. He participated in the activities of the Macedonian brotherhood in Sofia and cooperated with the periodicals of the Macedonian Bulgarians. Although he wasn't an IMRO member after World War I, along with the professors Lyubomir Miletich and Ivan Georgov Nikola Milev was advisor to the leader of IMRO Todor Aleksandrov. Milev was one of the opponents of the communist attempts to take control over Macedonian organizations.
  Nikola Milev was one of the moral and intellectual leaders of the refugees from Macedonia. Ivan Mihailov describes him thus:
  "He possessed a combination of humility and firm conviction. His all person and especially his speech exhales an angelic warmth and security. He spoke simply and cordially. And all that he said was in due measure. He won with by means of his tact, amazed with his mind, conquered through his modesty... He had a chosen place among the elite of Bulgarian intellectuals that was difficult to fill again.”
  Nikola Milev became one of the founders of the Macedonian Scientific Institute in 1923 and was elected to its first Board of Directors.
caption: Memorial plaque at Milev's place of assassination in Sofia
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