Kingdom of Bulgaria
Also known as Bulgarian Kingdom, Tsarstvo Balgariya
state on the Balkan Peninsula between 1908 and 1946
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The Kingdom of Bulgaria was a country located on the Balkan Peninsula that existed as an independent state from 1908 to 1946. It matters historically because it was a significant Balkan nation during a turbulent period that included two world wars and major political changes in Eastern Europe.
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- Population
- 7029349
- Area
- 153459.6
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1946-09-15
- inception
- 1908-01-01
- native label
- Царство България
- Commons category
- Third Bulgarian Tsardom
- short name
- Болгария
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The Tsardom of Bulgaria, also known as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom, commonly known in English as the Kingdom of Bulgaria, or simply Bulgaria, was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe, which was established on 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1908, when the Bulgarian state was raised from a principality to a tsardom.
Prince Ferdinand, founder of the royal family, was crowned as tsar at the Declaration of Independence, mainly because of his military plans and for seeking options for unification of all lands in the Balkans region with an ethnic Bulgarian majority (lands that had been seized from Bulgaria and given to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Berlin). He and his successors were reckoned as kings internationally.
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