Yakov Matakiev
Яков Матакиев
Mayor of Pazardzhik
In office November 1893 – September 1894
Preceded by	Georgi Penev
Succeeded by	Stefan Konsulov
Personal details
Born	(1852-09-12)September 12, 1852 Tatar Pazardzhik, Ottoman Empire
Died	November 7, 1921(1921-11-07) (aged 69) Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria

Yakov Dimitrov Matakiev (Bulgarian: Яков Димитров Матакиев) was a Bulgarian public figure, politician and revolutionary activist.

Yakov Dimitrov Matakiev was born on 13 September 1852 in Tatar Pazardzhik in a family of a rich nobleman.^[1] He got his education in his home town and graduated high school in Tábor. He began teaching alongside Konstantin Velichkov.^[2]

He would first participate in the April Uprising of 1876, in which the uprising went unsuccessfully and he was arrested in the prisons of Plovdiv and Adrianople. He was then freed after the 1876-1877 amnesty of the Constantinople Conference.^[2]

For the entire existence of Eastern Rumelia Yakov Matakiev was elected as a deputy and belonged to the party, which at the beginning was called Geshova, and from 1884 (when propaganda for the Unification began) - the Unificationist Party.

Matakiev was also the chairman of the Pazardzhik District Court.^[3] He was also mayor of Pazardzhik from 1893 to 1894.^[4][5]

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