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Service/branch
  
Bulgarian Army

Rank
  
Lieutenant general

Name
  
Kliment Boyadzhiev


Awards
  

Years of service
  
1883 - 1916

Allegiance
  
Bulgaria

Kliment Boyadzhiev

Commands held
  
Forth Preslav Infantry Division 1st Bulgarian Army

Battles/wars
  
Lule Burgas Morava Kosovo

Died
  
July 15, 1933, Sofia, Bulgaria

Battles and wars
  
Battle of Lule Burgas, Morava Offensive, Kosovo Offensive

Similar People
  
Nikola Zhekov, Georgi Todorov, Zivojin Misic, Vladimir Vazov, Stepa Stepanovic

Kliment Boyadzhiev (Bulgarian: Климент Бояджиев; 15 April 1861 – 15 July 1933) was a Bulgarian General during the Balkan Wars and First World War.

Born in Ohrid, he studied in an elementary school there. After the liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 he emigrated to Sofia. In 1883 he graduated the Military School in Sofia and in 1895 graduated the Military Academy in Torino, Italy with excellent marks.

During the successful Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885 he was an aide-de-camp in the Western Corps quarters. He distinguished himself in the battle of Lule Burgas during the First Balkan War as a commander of the Fourth Preslav Infantry Division. Between 22 August 1913 and 1 September 1913 Kliment Boyadzhiev was the Minister of War.

During the First World War he commanded the 1st Army which achieved major successes against the Serbs in the battle of Morava and the battle of Kosovo. Boyadzhiev remained in that position until 25 September 1916 when he was replaced by Dimitar Geshov and went to the reserve. The general was awarded four Bulgarian medals for courage and bravery as well as one Russian. After the war between 1918 and 1923 he emigrated to Germany.

He was also an author of a relief map of Bulgaria in 1902.

Kliment Boyadzhiev died in Sofia in 1933.

Awards

  • Order of Bravery
  • Order of St Alexander,
  • Order of Military Merit
  • Order of Stara Planina, 1st grade with swords - awarded posthumously on 20 December 2012
  • Ottoman Liyakat Medal
  • References

    Kliment Boyadzhiev Wikipedia