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A red square flag with a white outline of a star and the Bulgarian lion in the center. 1955-1963 Naval Jack The old Naval Jack flag from 1949-1955 in 2:3 Ratio and without the lion. 1963-1990 Naval Jack The old naval jack but in 1:2 Ratio. 1908-1944 Minister of War The Bulgarian flag with the lion on a red background in top-left corner
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Bulgarian campaigns during World War I, borders including occupied territories A German postcard commemorating the entry of Bulgaria into the war.. The Kingdom of Bulgaria participated in World War I on the side of the Central Powers from 14 October 1915, when the country declared war on Serbia, until 30 September 1918, when the Armistice of Salonica came into effect.
During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
On those maps, the flags commonly have a white or golden [5] [6] background and depict either the insignia of the ruling House of Shishman, [7] or unknown symbols [8] [9] in red. Those drawings are markedly more diverse than the flags of the neighbouring countries such as the Eastern Roman Empire , the Golden Horde or the Serbian Empire , which ...
If Bulgaria allied itself with the Entente it would have disrupted the links of Germany and Austria-Hungary with the Ottoman Empire and would have taken the straits opening a sea route to Russia. The Entente offered Bulgaria Eastern Thrace to the west of the line Midia - Enos and uncertain guarantees for Macedonia .
Romanian and Ottoman intervention forced Bulgaria to ask for armistice; Bulgarian territorial cessations in Treaty of Bucharest and Treaty of Constantinople; World War I (1914–1918) (see Bulgaria during World War I) Central Powers: German Empire Ottoman Empire Austria-Hungary Kingdom of Bulgaria (from 1915) Allied Powers: United States Britain
To complicate matters, Serbia and Greece too made claims over parts of Macedonia. Thus began the Balkan Wars, a five-sided struggle for control of these areas which lasted through World War I (Bulgaria during World War I). In 1903 there was a Bulgarian insurrection in Ottoman Macedonia and war seemed likely.