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Prime Minister of Bulgaria; In office 24 July 2001 – 17 August 2005: President: Petar Stoyanov Georgi Parvanov: Deputy: Nikolay Vasilev Lydia Shuleva Kostadin Paskalev Plamen Panayotov: Preceded by: Ivan Kostov: Succeeded by: Sergey Stanishev: Leader of the National Movement Simeon the Second party [a] In office 6 April 2002 – 28 November ...
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 ...
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.
Aligned with Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–1945), [76] [79] mainly out of a desire to increase Bulgarian territory. [79] Bulgaria participated in the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece, [78] though Boris refused to send Bulgarian soldiers to aid the German invasion of Russia. [76] His government oversaw the Holocaust in Bulgaria.
This is a list of the heads of the modern Bulgarian state, from the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria to the present day.. It also lists the general secretaries of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1948–1990.
Upon the outbreak of World War II, the government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Bogdan Filov declared a position of neutrality, being determined to observe it until the end of the war, but hoping for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the ...
(1879–1886) 2 Bishop Kliment Branitski 1841–1901 (Lived: 60 years) 6 December 1879 7 April 1880 123 days Conservative Party — Kliment I 3 Dragan Tsankov
Bulgaria, recuperating from the Balkan Wars, sat out the first year of World War I, but when Germany promised to restore the boundaries of the Treaty of San Stefano, Bulgaria, which had the largest army in the Balkans, declared war on Serbia in October 1915. Britain, France and Italy then declared war on Bulgaria.