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Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) was Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. Under his rule, Bulgaria entered the First World War on the side of the Central Powers in 1915.
The last Bulgarian royal family (Bulgarian: Българско царско семейство, romanized: Balgarsko tsarsko semeystvo) is a line of the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which ruled Bulgaria from 1887 to 1946.
The first National Assembly elected [r] Alexander of Battenberg, a German prince, as monarch. [75] Since Bulgaria was stipulated to remain an autonomous vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, Alexander used the title knyaz (prince) rather than tsar. [7] Deposed in a coup led by pro-Russian army officers. Briefly reinstated following a counter-coup ...
In July 1887 the Bulgarians elected Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as their new Prince. Ferdinand was the "Austrian candidate" and the Russians refused to recognize him despite his friendship with Tsar Alexander III. [10] Ferdinand initially worked with Stambolov, but by 1894 their relationship worsened.
Prince Ferdinand Georg August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (28 March 1785 – 27 August 1851) was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and a general of cavalry in the Austrian Imperial and Royal Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Prince Ferdinand, founder of the royal family, was crowned as tsar at the Declaration of Independence, mainly because of his military plans and for seeking options for unification of all lands in the Balkans region with an ethnic Bulgarian majority (lands that had been seized from Bulgaria and given to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Berlin ...
Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa (1822–1855) Ferdinand Bonaventura, 7th Prince Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1834-1904) Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844-1910) Infante Ferdinand of Portugal (1846-1861) Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861-1948) Ferdinand I of Romania (1865-1927) Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria (1869-1960) Prince ...
Ferdinand, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry: 6. Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 13. Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya: 3. Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 14. Louis Philippe I of France: 7. Princess Clémentine of Orléans: 15. Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily