Ivan Batakliev ( bg, Иван Батаклиев; 1891–1973) is a Bulgarian geographer, historian and geopolitician. Professor, Head of the Department of General Geography and Cultural and Political Geography, Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology and Director of the Geographical Institute of

Sofia University Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

″St. Kliment Ohridski″, co-founder and chairman of the Bulgarian Geographical Society, corresponding member of the geographical societies in

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, the Bulgarian Archaeological Institute and a full member of the Thracian Scientific Institute and the Union of Scientists. Author of over 110 scientific papers, 22 of which have been translated into foreign languages and specialist in Austria, England, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Ivan Batakliev is considered to be the founder of the Bulgarian

geopolitical Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ ''gê'' "earth, land" and πολιτική ''politikḗ'' "politics") is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations. While geopolitics usually refers to ...

science, as well as of the

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in Bulgaria. Student and successor of

Anastas Ishirkov Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov ( bg, Анастас Тодоров Иширков; 5 April 1868 – 6 April 1937) was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a ...

.Who is Prof. Ivan Batakliev - an untold story, in Bulgarian
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Batakliev, Ivan 1891 births 1973 deaths Bulgarian geographers Bulgarian cartographers Geopoliticians Sofia University alumni Academic staff of Sofia University Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian military personnel of World War I Recipients of the Order of Bravery 20th-century cartographers