Ivan Tsonchev
{{short description|Bulgarian Army General and revolutionary}}
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| name = Ivan Tsonchev
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| allegiance ={{flagicon|Russian Empire|1858}} Russian Empire
{{flag|Kingdom of Bulgaria}}
| branch = 15px Imperial Russian Army
20px Bulgarian Army
{{flagicon image|Flag of the IMRO.svg}} IMRO
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| battles = Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Bulgarian-Serbian War (1885)
Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
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| caption = Ivan Tsonchev in uniform.
| birth_date = 19 August 1859
| birth_place = Dryanovo, Ottoman Empire (now Bulgaria)
| death_date = {{d-da|16 December 1910|19 August 1859 }}
| death_place = Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria
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Ivan Stefanov Tsonchev was a Bulgarian Army General and revolutionary (komitadji).Елдъров, Светлозар. Генерал Иван Цончев. Биография на два живота. София, Военно издателство, 2003. {{ISBN|954-509-272-6}}, стр. 9-10.
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 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.
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Category:Bulgarian revolutionaries
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