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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 ...
[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] Under his father, Bulgaria joined the Axis powers in World War II but managed to preserve diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Still, on 5 September 1944 Stalin ...
Although Bulgaria, in alliance with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, won military victories against Serbia and Romania, occupying much of Macedonia (taking Skopje in October), advancing into Greek Macedonia, and taking Dobruja from the Romanians in September 1916, the war soon became unpopular with the majority of Bulgarian people ...
The Tsardom of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Царство България, romanized: Tsarstvo Balgariya), also known as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom (Bulgarian: Трето Българско Царство, romanized: Treto Balgarsko Tsarstvo), sometimes translated as the Kingdom of Bulgaria, or simply Bulgaria, was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe, which was established on 5 October ...
The history of Bulgaria can be traced from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state, and includes the history of the Bulgarian people and their origin. The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. [1]
Bulgarian Army: Zlatev Nonpartisan — 26 Andrey Toshev (1867–1944) 21 April 1935 23 November 1935 216 days Independent: Toshev Nonpartisan — 27 Georgi Kyoseivanov (1884–1960) 23 November 1935 16 February 1940 4 years, 85 days Independent: Kyoseivanov I–IV Nonpartisan: 1938 1939: 28 Bogdan Filov (1883–1945) 16 February 1940 9 ...
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 ...
So in 1992 a new Concept for the Development of the Bulgarian Army Until the Year 2000 (to be implemented in three phases, the re-structuring of the formations and units was to occur during the first (between 1995 and 1997) and second phases (between 1997 and 2000), while the third beyond the target date had focus on the modernisation of the ...