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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 ...
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.
Bakardzhiev, Nikola — Infantry General (1934) Balabanov, Boncho — Major General (1900) Balkanski, Milenko — Major General (1917) Batsarov, Ivan — Major General (1917)
(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.
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.
After World War II, Bulgaria became a Communist state, and the General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Todor Zhivkov, served for a period of 35 years, where there was relatively rapid economic growth. The Communist system collapsed in the 1980s, and several problems in the 1990s decreased the economic development of Bulgaria's ...
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 Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry