62 Notable alumni of
National Military University "Vasil Levski"
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National Military University "Vasil Levski" is 897th in the world, 315th in Europe, and 5th in Bulgaria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 62 notable alumni from National Military University "Vasil Levski" sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Boris III of Bulgaria
- Occupations
- military personneltrain drivermonarchmilitary officer
- Biography
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Boris III, originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver (Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier), was the Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943.
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Gotse Delchev
- Enrolled in National Military University "Vasil Levski"
- Studied in 1891-1894
- Occupations
- military personnelpoliticianrevolutionaryteacher
- Biography
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Georgi Nikolov Delchev, known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (Гоце Делчев), was an important Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji), active in the Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Adrianople regions at the turn of the 20th century. He was the most prominent leader of what is known today as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), a secret revolutionary society that was active in Ottoman territories in the Balkans at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Delchev was its representative in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria. As such, he was also a member of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), participating in the work of its governing body. He was killed in a skirmish with an Ottoman unit on the eve of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising.
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Prince Kyril, Prince of Preslav
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Prince Kiril of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav was the second son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and his first wife Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. He was a younger brother of Boris III of Bulgaria and a prince regent of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1944. He was sentenced to death by the People's Court and executed on the night of 1 February 1945.
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Kimon Georgiev
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general who was the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1934 to 1935 and again from 1944 to 1946.
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Vladimir Vazov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Vladimir Minchev Vazov was a Bulgarian officer. He led the Bulgarian forces during the successful defensive operation at Dojran during the First World War.
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Radko Dimitriev
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- military personneldiplomatmilitary officer
- Biography
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Radko Dimitriev was a Bulgarian general, Head of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army from 1 January 1904 to 28 March 1907, as well as a general in the Russian Army during the First World War.
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Nikola Zhekov
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- politicianuniversity teachermilitary personnelministermilitary officer
- Biography
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Nikola Todorov Zhekov was the Minister of War of Bulgaria in 1915 and served as commander-in-chief from 1915 to 1918 during World War I.
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Vladimir Stoychev
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- diplomatpoliticianmilitary personnelmilitary officerequestrian
- Biography
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Vladimir Dimitrov Stoychev was a Bulgarian Colonel General, diplomat and Olympic equestrian.
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Boris Sarafov
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- politicianmilitary officerrevolutionary
- Biography
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Boris Petrov Sarafov was a Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC) and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in North Macedonia, having identified occasionally as a Macedonian in his life.
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Ivan Kolev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Ivan Kolev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian lieutenant general and distinguished cavalry commander during World War I.
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Boris Drangov
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- military officer
- Biography
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Boris Stoyanov Drangov was a Bulgarian colonel and warfare pedagogue.
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Konstantin Muraviev
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Konstantin Vladov Muraviev was a leading member of the Agrarian People's Union who briefly served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria near the end of Bulgaria's involvement in the Second World War on the side of Germany. Muraviev was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, just like Todor Ivanchov, Konstantin Stoilov and many other Bulgarians were at the time.
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Aleksandar Protogerov
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- politicianrevolutionarymilitary personnelmilitary officermilitary commander
- Biography
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Alexandar Protogerov was a Bulgarian Army general, politician and revolutionary, as well as a member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia, Thrace and Pomoravlje. Protogerov was a Bulgarian Freemason and held a leading position (Grand Master) in the lodge where he was a member.
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Georgi Todorov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Georgi Stoyanov Todorov was a Bulgarian general who fought in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), Balkan Wars (1912–1913) and First World War (1914–1918).
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Stefan Toshev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Stefan Toshev was a Bulgarian general, from World War I. His mother was a teacher from the period of the National Revival. He volunteered in the Bulgarian Opalchentsi Corps during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and later served as a translator. On 10 May 1879, he graduated from the Military School in Sofia in its first year. Then he served in the Police force of Eastern Rumelia.
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Racho Petrov
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Racho Petrov Stoyanov was a leading Bulgarian general and politician.
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Mihail Savov
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- military personneldiplomatmilitary officer
- Biography
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Mihail Georgiev Savov was a Bulgarian general, twice Minister of Defence (1891–1894 and 1903–1907), second in command of the Bulgarian army during the Balkan Wars.
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Todor Kantardzhiev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Todor Dimitrov Kantardzhiev was a Bulgarian lieutenant general and doctor.
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Stoyan Stoyanov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Stoyan Iliev Stoyanov was the highest scoring Bulgarian fighter ace of the Royal Bulgarian Air Force in World War II with 15 victories.
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Damyan Velchev
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- diplomatpoliticianmilitary personnelministermilitary officer
- Biography
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Damyan Velchev or Velcev was a Bulgarian politician and general.
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Nikola Mikhov
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- military personnelpoliticianministermilitary officer
- Biography
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Nikola Mihaylov Mihov was a Bulgarian lieutenant general of artillery who served as one of the three Regents of Bulgaria for the underage Simeon II (1943–44).
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Nikola Ivanov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Nikola Ivanov was a Bulgarian general and a minister of defence of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
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Ivan Bagryanov
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- diplomatpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov was a leading Bulgarian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister during the Second World War.
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Kliment Boyadzhiev
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Kliment Boyadzhiev was a Bulgarian general during the Balkan Wars and World War I.
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Ivan Fichev
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- diplomathistorianmilitary personnelmilitary officerjournalist
- Biography
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Ivan Fichev was a Bulgarian general, Minister of Defense, military historian and academician.
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Ivan Valkov
- Enrolled in National Military University "Vasil Levski"
- Studied in 1896
- Occupations
- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Ivan Valkov was a Bulgarian General of Infantry who fought in World War I and later held the post of Minister of War (1923–1929).
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Stiliyan Kovachev
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- military personnelsoldiermilitary officer
- Biography
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Stiliyan Kovachev was a Bulgarian general. During the First Balkan War he commanded the Rodopi Detachment and later 4th Army. He was a Minister of Defense for short time in the beginning of the Second Balkan War in the government of Stoyan Danev (1913).
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Vasil Kutinchev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Vasil Ivanov Kutinchev was a Bulgarian officer. He began his military career in 1879 after graduating from the Military School in Sofia. On 13 September 1885 he was made commander of the 1st battalion of the 5th "Dunav" infantry regiment.
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Pencho Zlatev
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Pencho Ivanov Zlatev, also known as Petko Ivanov Zlatev (Bulgarian: Петко Иванов Златев), was a Bulgarian general and politician in the years before the Second World War.
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Konstantin Zhostov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Konstantin Andonov Zhostov was a Bulgarian general and Chief of the Bulgarian Army Staff.
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Angel Marin
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Angel Marin is a Bulgarian political figure who was Vice President of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012. He took office in 2002 together with President Georgi Parvanov, and they were re-elected for a second term in 2007.
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Stefan Nerezov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Stefan Mikhailov Nerezov was a Bulgarian General and Chief of the Bulgarian Army Staff.
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Panteley Kiselov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Panteley Kiselov was a Bulgarian soldier and general who fought in the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 and World War I. He is best known as commander of the 4th Preslav Infantry Division during the Romanian Campaign of 1916 and victor of the Battle of Tutrakan.
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Ivan Lukov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Ivan Tsonev Lukov was a Bulgarian officer. During the First World War, he was Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army and commanded between 1917 and 1918 the Bulgarian Second Army on the Salonika front.
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Ivan Tsonchev
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- military personnelmilitary officerrevolutionary
- Biography
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Ivan Stefanov Tsonchev was a Bulgarian Army General and revolutionary.
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Anyu Angelov
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- military personnelengineerpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Anyu Angelov is Bulgaria's Minister of Defense. Born in Haskovo on December 22, 1942. He graduated from the National Military Artillery School "Georgi Dimitrov" (now Faculty "Artillery, Air Defense and Communications" at NMU) with a degree in radio electronics engineer. He then studied at the Military Academy "Rakovska" under the program of operational and strategic direction of the armed forces. He specialized in the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR in Moscow. Began his military career as a platoon leader. Later he became Chief of Staff, Commander of the Brigade. From 1987 he was Head of Staff, and between 1990 and 1992 - commander of the air defense (PVO) of the Land Forces. From 1992 to 1994 he was Deputy Commander of the Land Forces. In the period 1994-1997 was Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army. Between 1997 and 2000 he was a defense attache in the UK. Then became head of the Military Academy "G. S. Rakovski "(until 2002). Became a member of the GOP "GERB" which allows him political development and was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. On 27 January 2010 formally took office as Minister of Defense.
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Petar Darvingov
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- military officermilitary historian
- Biography
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Petar Georgiev Darvingov was a Bulgarian officer, revolutionary and military historian, corresponding member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1932.
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Dimitar Geshov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Geshov Dimitar Ivanov was a Bulgarian officer. During the First World War, he commanded in 1916–1918 the Bulgarian First Army on the Salonika front.
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Georgi Stamatov
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- military officerwriter
- Biography
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Georgi Porfiriev Stamatov was a Bulgarian writer.
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Anastas Yankov
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- military officer
- Biography
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Anastas Yankov Dinkov was a Bulgarian army officer and revolutionary, a prominent voivode of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee. In North Macedonia he is considered an ethnic Macedonian by the post-WWII Macedonian historiography.
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Konstantin Kavarnaliev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Konstantin Velikov Kavarnaliev was a Bulgarian major general, who died at the Battle of Doiran during the Second Balkan War.
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Zlatan Stoykov
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- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Zlatan Kirilov Stoykov is a Bulgarian general and was from 1 June 2006 to 30 June 2009 the (44th) Chief of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army.
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Toma Davidov
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- military officer
- Biography
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Toma Kostov Davidov was a Bulgarian Army officer and participant in the Macedonian Revolutionary Movement, a vojvode of the Macedonian Supreme Committee, later becoming a commander in the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
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Vasil Boydev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Vasil Boydev was a Bulgarian Lieutenant-General who fought in World War II.
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Neyko Nenov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Neyko N. Nenov was a Bulgarian major general.
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Nikola Nedev
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- military personnelhistorianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Nikola Dimitrov Nedeva was a Bulgarian Major general, politician and military historian. He was the Minister of Interior affairs and Public Health in the third and fourth cabinets of Georgi Kyoseivanov (November 1938 to February 1940).
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Hristo Burmov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Hristo Dimitrov Burmov was a Bulgarian Major General who was the Chief of the Defence of Bulgaria from July 17, 1918, to October 10, 1918. He also served in World War I in the Macedonian front and was one of the main Bulgarian commanders of the Vardar offensive that eventually led to the surrender of Bulgaria.
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Stamat Ikonomov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Stamat Ikonomov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) and military officer.
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Nikola Genev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Nikola Genev Kolchev was a Bulgarian volunteer, officer, a lieutenant general, and a commander of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps during the First Balkan War and the Second Balkan War.
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Vasil Delov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Vasil Petrov Delov was a 20th-century Bulgarian officer and major general.
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Nikola Gabrovski
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- military officer
- Biography
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Nikola Gabrovski was a military figure and a colonel in the Bulgarian army. He was born in the village of Krushevo (present-day North Macedonia) in 1871 and died in 1962 in Sofia. He studied in a gymnasium and then in the Military school in Sofia. Gabrovski took part in all three of the so-called "Wars of National Unification" - the First and Second Balkan and the First World War. He became a member of the "Union of Macedonian brotherhoods" in 1924. He has been awarded numeral medals and honors during his military career. Today, one of the main streets in Veliko Tarnovo bears his name.
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Nikola Andreev
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- military officer
- Biography
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Nikola Andreev, known as Alay Bey, was a Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). He was the leader of a revolutionary band in the Kostur region and a participant in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
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Todor Hristov
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- military officer
- Biography
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Todor Hristov, also known as "the Little officer" was a Bulgarian military officer and revolutionary, activist of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.
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Krastyu Marinov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Krastyu Marinov Prazov Marinov was a Bulgarian volunteer, officer, and major general.
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Alexandar Tanev
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- military personneljuristmilitary officer
- Biography
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Alexander Andreev Tanev was a 20th-century Bulgarian officer, lieutenant general of the cavalry, inspector of the cavalry from 1913 to 1915, commander of the cavalry division from October to November 1915 and was commander of the 1st divisional district until 1916.
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Pravoslav Tenev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Pravoslav Krastev Tenev was a Bulgarian Infantry General and Chief of Staff of The Army.
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Petar Traykov
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- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Petar Traykov Girovski was a Bulgarian Army officer, later activist of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. Afterwards he became close to some communist circles and after the Second World War participated in Yugoslav and Bulgarian politics.
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Nikolay Boshnakov
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- military officeraircraft pilot
- Biography
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Nikolay Stoyanov Boshnakov was a Bulgarian officer and fighter pilot who fought in World War II.
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Sotir Atanasov
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- military officer
- Biography
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Sotir Atanasov Yanakiev was a Bulgarian Army officer, revolutionary and voivode of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.
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Andrey Bukureshtliev
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- military personnelsoldiermilitary officer
- Biography
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Andrei Atanasov Bucharestliev was a 19th and 20th century Bulgarian Lieutenant Colonel who was notable for his service in the Battle of Banjski Dol during the Serbo-Bulgarian War.
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Stefan Tasev
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Stefan Tasev was a Bulgarian officer, major general of infantry, Head of 7th Rila Infantry Division in World War I and after the war commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Sofia.
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Hristo Pakov
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- military officermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Hristo Kostakiev Pakov was a Bulgarian major general and a commander of a division during the First World War.
