Spasoje Hadži Popović

Spasoje Hadži Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Спасоје Хаџи Поповић; 18 August 1882 – 3 July 1926) was a Serbian teacher in Bitola and editor of the newspaper Južne Zvezde (Southern Stars).

He was born in Akritas, in Florina (now Greece).

Growing up, he was a witness to the conflict between the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Bulgarian Exarchate, which divided the Slavic Christian people in Ottoman Macedonia.

[1] He enrolled in the Serbian Gymnasium in Bitola in 1899[1] and subsequently in the teacher school in Aleksinac, which had been moved there from Belgrade, together with many pupils from Ottoman territory.

[1] Popović was murdered by VMRO agents, who conducted a range of assassinations and terrorist acts against Serbs at that time.