About Gavril Krastevich
Lived 1817 – 1898 (aged 81). Gavril Krastevich was a Turkish journalist, politician, historian and jurist.
Gavril Krastevich (; 5 April 1817 – 19 November 1898) was a Bulgarian politician and historian, and the first translator of Benjamin Franklin into Bulgarian. He was born in Kotel in 1817.
He was Governor General of Eastern Rumelia between 1884 and 1885 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Krastevich died in Istanbul on 16 November 1898.
Honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Bulgarian politician and historian (1817-1898)
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Gavril Krastevich was born on 5 April 1817 in Kotel.
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Gavril Krastevich died on 16 November 1898 in Istanbul.
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