Zahari Stoyanov

Djendo Stoyanov Djedev, who took the name Zahari Stoyanov, was born in 1850 in Medven, near Sliven, into a family of shepherds. A shepherd himself, then an apprentice tailor in Ruse, he joined the revolutionary committee of that town and in 1876 was one of the apostles of the revolutionary district of Plovdiv. After the liberation, he led the secret committee that brought about in 1885 the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia, then was a deputy and presided over the National Assembly. He died in Paris on 2 September 1889.

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• NarrativeExtracts from Notes on the Bulgarian UprisingsЗаписки по българските въстанияZahari Stoyanov · 1884Literature