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Nikolaj "Niko" Dragos (Slovenian: Dragoš) (born 27 August 1907) is a Slovenian centenarian noted as the oldest living person in Slovenia as well as the oldest living man. He is also the oldest Slovenian man of all time (reliable citation needed) and the first Slovenian man who has lived to 108 and 109 years old.[1]
Biography
He was born in Griblje near Crnomelj (present-day Slovenia, Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of his birth), where he finished a primary school.[1][2]
He found a job in a Yugoslav military (border guard) and was sent to a Yugoslav-Bulgarian border in present-day Serbia as a frontiersman. Later he became a head of the border patrol. At the outbreak of the WWII, he was captured by Germans and sent to a camp for prisoners of war in present-day Austria, where he remained until the end of the war.[1][2] After the war he found a job in the Yugoslav police where he worked primarily as a record clerk. He retired in 1965.[3]
He married in 1947 and had two children, a son and a daughter.[1][2]. At the request of his family, he wrote an autobiography, entitled “Mojih sto let” (My one hundred years) which was published in 2007.[2]
At a young age he was a good skier (winner of the Yugoslav military skiing competition).[2]
He also played musical instruments since his youth and played tamboura and guitar even as a centenarian.[2]
References
| Slovenia's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
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Ivan Likavec • Niko Dragos • Rafael Merkelj • Mihael Jersic • Joze Pogacnik • Aleksander Lestan |
| Slovenia's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Marija Bandelj • Katarina Marinic • Vida Ursic • Ana Marija Kern • Julijana Jamsek • Marija Rihar • Niko Dragos • Matilda Serec • Julijana Zakrajsek |