He was born in Chrisa (Cakoni),
Greece, in 1937. His family fled to the
Socialist Republic of Macedonia during the
Greek Civil War in 1948. He completed his studies in a gymnasium and graduated in philosophy in the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje. Dimitrov received his master's degree in Ljubljana and his doctorate in Zagreb. He worked as a professor in a gymnasium, editor in the publishing house "Kultura" (Culture) and a professor in the
University of Skopje. the Ambassador (2000 – 2003) of the Republic of Macedonia to Russia. It resulted in public scandals and he was dismissed from his position. He opposed the
identitarian narrative as part of the
antiquization policy promoted by the Macedonian government under
Nikola Gruevski. He has a reputation for being a
Bulgarophile intellectual in his country. In his 1999 book
The Name and the Mind, Dimitrov claimed that there was a process of de-
Bulgarization in the 20th century on the territory of North Macedonia. He is married and is the father of former Macedonian foreign minister
Nikola Dimitrov. == References ==