Stiliyan Kovachev
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| Born | 26 February 1860 Yanbolu, Ottoman Empire (now Yambol, Bulgaria) |
| Died |
11 July 1939 (aged 79) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Allegiance |
 Bulgaria
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| Service/branch |
 Bulgarian Army
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| Years of service | 1879–1918 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held |
4th Preslav Infantry Division (1905 - 1909) 2nd Thracian Infantry Division (1909 - 1912) 4th Army |
| Battles/wars |
Serbo-Bulgarian War First Balkan War Second Balkan War First World War |
| Awards | See below |
Stiliyan Kovachev (Bulgarian: Стилиян Ковачев) (born on 26 February 1860 in Yanbolu (Yambol), died on 11 July 1939 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian general. During the First Balkan War he commanded the Rodopi Detachment and later 4th Army. He was a Minister of Defense for short time in the beginning of the Second Balkan War in the government of Stoyan Danev (1913).
Stiliyan Kovachev was born on 26 February in Yanbolu (Yambol), then under Ottoman rule. He received his elementary education in Yanbolu and in İslimiye (Sliven). Since early age he entered the Yambol Revolutionary Committee where he assisted Dimitar Drazhev helping for the correspondence of the committee. When the April Uprising broke out the cheta of Drazhev joined the squad of Ilarion Dragostinov and Stoil Voyvoda. During battle to the north of Sliven Georgi Drazhev was captured by the Turks and hanged on 29 June 1876 but Kovachev managed to escape the gallows.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria the 18-year-old Kovachev continued his education in Plovdiv. In November 1878 he moved to Sofia and enter the newly established Military School. He graduated in the following year and on 10 May was promoted to Lieutenant and was appointed as a commander of a platoon in the 2nd company of the training forces of the Eastern Rumelia militia.
On 9 July he was promoted to First Lieutenant. Between 1882 and 1883 he studied in the Military Engineering Academy in Saint Petersburg but fell ill and had to return to Bulgaria. On 7 March 1884 he was promoted to Captain and in the spring of 1885 his company was sent in the Rhodope Mountains to the south of Pazardzhik to protect the Bulgarian population of Turk and Greek bands.
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