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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 ...
According to Goebbels, Hitler was convinced that the Italian royal court was the organizer of the poisoning of Boris III, as Princess Mafalda of Savoy, sister of Joan of Bulgaria, was visiting Bulgaria four weeks before the monarch's death and her visit coincided with the events of 25 July 1943, [30] [31] the overthrow of the Italian Fascist ...
During his time in power, he received the Path to Peace Award from the Path to Peace Foundation in 2002. [13] Bulgaria next joined NATO and joined the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq. In the 2005 elections , Simeon's party ranked second and participated in the grand coalition government led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and including the ...
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.
Prince of Bulgaria Tsardom of Bulgaria: 1908–1946 Tsar of Bulgaria People's Republic of Bulgaria: 1946–1947 Chairman of the Provisional Presidency 1947–1971 Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly 1971–1990 Chairman of the State Council 1990 Chairman (President) of the Republic Republic of Bulgaria: 1990–1992 1992–present
2nd time: 11 July 1884 21 August 1886 2 years, 41 days Liberal Party — Karavelov II (2) Metropolitan Kliment of Tarnovo 1841–1901 (Lived: 60 years) 2nd time: 21 August 1886 24 August 1886 3 days Conservative Party — Kliment II (4) Petko Karavelov 1843–1903 (Lived: 59 years) 3rd time: 24 August 1886 28 August 1886 4 days Liberal Party ...
By the time the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform program in the Soviet Union was felt in Bulgaria in the late 1980s, the Communists, like their leader, had grown too feeble to resist the demand for change for long. In November 1989 demonstrations on ecological issues were staged in Sofia and these soon broadened into a general campaign for ...
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.