Ivan Tsonchev

Ivan Stefanov Tsonchev was a Bulgarian Army General and revolutionary.

Biography

Ivan Tsonchev was born on 19 August 1859 in Dryanovo, then in the Ottoman Empire. He became a volunteer and a participant in the Russo-Turkish [War |Russo-Turkish War from 1877-1878]. After the establishment of the Bulgarian Principality he became an officer and participated in the Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885. Later he was the leader of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee in the period 1901-1903. Tsonchev was the main organizer of the Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising in 1902 and a participant in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903.
General Ivan Tsonchev died on 16 December 1910.