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He succeeded to the throne on 28 August 1943 upon the death of his father, who had just returned to Bulgaria from a meeting with Adolf Hitler. [4] [5] Since Simeon was only six years old, his uncle Prince Kiril, Prime Minister Bogdan Filov, and Lt. General Nikola Mihov of the Bulgarian Army were appointed regents. [6]
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.
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 ...
(Birth–Death) Reign start Reign end Duration Alexander I Александър I 1857–1893 (Lived: 36 years) 29 April 1879 7 September 1886 : 7 years, 131 days Battenberg: Elected by the First Grand National Assembly: Ferdinand I Фердинанд I 1861–1948 (Lived: 87 years) 7 July 1887 5 October 1908 21 years, 90 days
Boris III of Bulgaria and Prime-minister Kimon Georgiev during the opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Sofia, 9 September 1934) In the coup on 19 May 1934 , the Zveno military organisation established a dictatorship, abolished political parties, and reduced Boris to a puppet figurehead . [ 3 ]
Bakardzhiev, Nikola — Infantry General (1934) Balabanov, Boncho — Major General (1900) Balkanski, Milenko — Major General (1917) Batsarov, Ivan — Major General (1917)
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.
(Birth–Death) Term of office Party Government Composition Election Tsar (Reign) Took office Left office Time in office Chairmen of the Council of Ministers 1908–1946; 17 Aleksandar Malinov (1867–1938) 5 October 1908 29 March 1911 2 years, 175 days Democratic Party: Malinov I–II DP —