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  2. Bulgaria during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...

  3. Bulgarian rule of Macedonia, Morava Valley and Western Thrace ...

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    With the unilaterally annexed territories, Bulgaria acquired 39,756.6 km 2 as follows: Western Outlands – 2,968 km 2, Macedonia – 23,807 km 2, Western Thrace – 12,363 km 2, the island of Thasos – 443 km 2 and the island of Samothrace – 184 km 2, and the total area of the state became 150,668.1 km 2. [1] [2] [3]

  4. Todor Zhivkov - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Zhivkov participated in Bulgaria's resistance movement in the People's Liberation Insurgent Army. In 1943, he was involved in organising the Chavdar partisan detachment in and around his place of birth, becoming deputy commander of the Sofia operations area in the summer of 1944.

  5. 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    Bulgarian partisans enter Sofia on 9 September. Bulgaria was in a precarious situation, still in the sphere of Nazi Germany's influence (as a former member of the Axis powers, with German troops in the country despite the declared Bulgarian neutrality 15 days earlier), but under threat of war with the leading military power of that time, the Soviet Union (the USSR had declared war on the ...

  6. Independent Macedonia (1944) - Wikipedia

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    The red and black flag used by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and more broadly by supporters of an autonomous or independent Macedonia. The Independent State of Macedonia [a] was a proposed puppet state of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that had been occupied by the Tsardom of Bulgaria following the invasion of ...

  7. Second Army (Bulgaria) - Wikipedia

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    During the night, after a third and last attack, the village was occupied by the Irish division. Casualties on both sides were heavy due to the accurate artillery and machine gun fire. After the battle the Bulgarian 13th Regiment was reorganized to a three battalion strength instead of the usual four battalions.

  8. Bulgarian People's Army - Wikipedia

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    The pro-Soviet Bulgarian Fatherland Front took the power on 9 September 1944, after a coup d'état. [1] After the proclamation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1946, the celebration of the military holiday on 6 May was stopped, with the date of 23 September was designated as the Day of the Bulgarian People's Army.

  9. Elena Lagadinova - Wikipedia

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    During the Second World War, Lagadinova contributed to the Bulgarian resistance against German occupation, earning the nickname “Амазонка” or “The Amazon.” She was the youngest female fighter in Bulgaria, beginning her contributions to the war effort at 11 years old and actively fighting at age 14.