About Yakov Matakiev
Lived 1852 – 1921 (aged 69). Yakov Matakiev was a judge and politician.
Yakov Dimitrov Matakiev was a Bulgarian public figure, politician and revolutionary activist.
Biography
Early life and education Yakov Dimitrov Matakiev was born on 13 September 1852 in Tatar Pazardzhik in a family of a rich nobleman. He got his education in his home town and graduated high school in Tábor. He began teaching alongside Konstantin Velichkov.
Revolutionary career He would first participate in the April Uprising of 1876, in which the uprising went unsuccessfully and he was arrested in the prisons of Plovdiv and Adrianople. He was then freed after the 1876-1877 amnesty of the Constantinople Conference. He was also mayor of Pazardzhik from 1893 to 1894.
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Who was Yakov Matakiev?
Bulgarian politician and revolutionary activist (1852–1921)
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Yakov Matakiev was born on 13 September 1852 in Pazardzhik.
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Yakov Matakiev died on 7 November 1921 in Sofia.
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Yakov Matakiev was a judge and politician.
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