Revolutionary Ivan Pozharliev

Ivan Petrov Pozharliev was a Bulgarian officer, revolutionary and voivode of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee who also served as a colonel in the Bulgarian army. He was born on 14 September 1868 in Enidzhe Vardar, now Giannitsa, Greece, and was the brother of the voivode Toma Pozharliev.

Ivan Pozharliev graduated from the Bulgarian Boys' High School in Thessaloniki in 1891 and later studied at the Military School in Sofia, graduating in 1895. He served in the Twenty-third and Sixteenth Infantry Regiments and participated in the Macedonian Committee's armed detachment campaign in 1895 as military leader of Manol Karamanov's detachment in the Maleshevo district. In 1896 he worked with a detachment in the Adrianople region.

In 1902 Pozharliev arrived in the Thessaloniki Revolutionary District, where he helped organise the Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising, organised by the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

During the First Balkan War he commanded the Second Skopje Battalion of the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps. During the First World War he commanded a battalion in the 63rd Infantry Regiment of the Eleventh Division. After the war he held important positions in the Ministry of War and retired in 1918.

After the wars, Ivan Pozharliev actively participated in charitable work and chaired the Enidzhe Vardar–Gumendzhe Charitable Brotherhood. In 1936 he became chairman of the breakaway Enidzhe Vardar Brotherhood, holding the post until the summer of 1941. He died on 16 August 1943 in Sofia.