Revolutionary Dimitar Bonchov

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Revolutionary Dimitar Bonchov

Dimitar Bonchov

Active from: 1876
Active until: No information
Period: Ottoman rule

Dimitar Georgiev Bonchov was a Bulgarian revolutionary born around 1848 in Gorna Dzhumaya, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1876, he participated in the April Uprising as a member of Georgi Benkovski's detachment. After the uprising's defeat, he joined Tsanko Dyustabanov's detachment. Bonchov was captured by the authorities and imprisoned in Sofia, but was included in the amnesty later that year.

During the Russo-Turkish War, he served in a volunteer unit that liberated his hometown of Gorna Dzhumaya. After 1879, he moved to Sofia.