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  21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Prince Ferdinand I of BULGARIA Tsar was born in 1861 in Saxe-Coburg - son of Augustus.
Marie Louise of PARMA was born in 1870 in Parma.
Eleanora of REUSS was born in 1860 in Reuss, Thuringia.
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 Boris III of Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boris married Giovanna of Savoy, daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, first in Assisi in October 1930, and then at an Orthodox ceremony in Sofia.
In early 1943, Nazi officials requested that Bulgaria's Jews be sent to Poland as part of Hitler's "final solution." The request caused a public outcry, led by prominent figures such as Parliament Chairman Dimitar Peshev and Archbishop Stefan of Sofia.
Boris was thus compelled to cancel the deportation of Bulgaria's 50,000 Jews to Auschwitz.
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 Boris I of Bulgaria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Boris kept the borders of his country essentially unchanged with diplomacy and alliances with the Frankish king Charles the Bald, Prince Rostislav of Moravia, the Byzantine Emperor Michael III, and eventually King Louis the German even though suffering defeats.
In 864 Boris was baptized in the palace in Pliska.
Boris was familiar with the work of Cyril and Methodius, the inventors of the Slavic alphabet, as early as 881-882.
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 Civilian Agency Records - Civilian Agency Records Rg 84
Bulgaria, under King Boris III, attempted to remain a neutral and tried to please Germany by agreeing to sign at a future date the Tripartite Treaty and by enacting legislation in 1940 and 1941 against the Jews and Masons.
King Boris, who died shortly after a stormy meeting with Hitler in August 1943, was succeeded by political leaders who had grown like their king to put more faith in the Allies than the Axis.
Allied bombings of Bulgaria during the spring and summer of 1944 forced Bulgaria further away from its alliance with the Axis.
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 Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Bulgarian Catholics live predominantly in the regions of Svishtov and Plovdiv and are descendants of the heretical Christian sect of the Paulicians, which was converted to Roman Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries.
In 1949 foreign priests were forbidden to preach in Bulgaria, and the papal nuncio was forbidden to return to Bulgaria.
Bulgaria reestablished relations with the Vatican in 1990, and the Bulgarian government invited Pope John Paul II to visit Bulgaria.
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 Ferdinand I of Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ferdinand was proclaimed Prince Regnant of autonomous Bulgaria on July 7, 1887 in the Gregorian calendar (the "New Style" used hereinafter), ten months after the abdication of his predecessor Prince Alexander.
Bulgaria's domestic political life was dominated during the early years of his reign by liberal party leader Stefan Stambolov, whose foreign policy saw a marked cooling in relations with Russia, formerly seen as Bulgaria's protector.
Ferdinand abdicated on October 3, 1918 after Bulgaria's defeat in World War I, which she had entered (October 1915) on the side of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to reverse the losses of 1913.
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 Boris I of Bulgaria - Definition, explanation
Boris kept the borders of his country essentially unchanged with diplomacy and alliances with the Frankishish king Charles the Bald, Prince Rostislav of Moravia, the Byzantine Emperor Michael III, and eventually King Louis the German even though suffering defeats.
In 864 Boris was baptized in the palace in Pliska.
Boris was familiar with the work of Cyril and Methodius, the inventors of the Slavic alphabet, as early as 881-882.
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Bulgaria regained its independence in 1879 as an autonomous principality and was proclaimed a fully independent kingdom in 1908.
Bulgaria has since embarked on economic and political restructuring and is seeking membership of both NATO and the European Union.
According to the 2001 census, Bulgaria's population is mainly ethnic Bulgarian (83.9%), with two sizable minorities in the form of Turks (9.4%) and Roma (4.7%).
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 Bulgaria.com - History, Rulers of Bulgaria - Tsar Boris III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Boris III realized what his father had meant as soon as he took the helm in the autumn of 1918.
Boris III regarded power as a burden, and to the very end of his reign, he never experienced his father's love for it.
Boris was surely a talented ruler who, unlike his father, won the sympathy of both rich and poor.
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 Tsar Boris III - Unifier and Savior of the Bulgarian Jews
King Boris III was always trying to find diplomatic solutions to the difficult problems of the time.
Bulgaria had national ideals: the returning of Bulgarian territories, such as present-day Macedonia and part of the present-day Greek Macedonia.
The monuments to be removed are: HM Boris III and HM Queen Giovanna, Dimitar Peshev (Deputy of the parliament at that time), the Bulgarian Patriarch and the Bulgarian people.
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 Encyclopedia: Boris III of Bulgaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943), son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following Bulgaria's defeat in World War I.
Simeon Sakskoburggotski as Prime Minister of Bulgaria Simeon Borisov Sakskoburggotski, formerly Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (born June 16, 1937) was the last Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946, and was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 until August 2005.
World War II political leaders The history of Bulgaria began in the 7th century CE with the arrival of the Bulgars in the Balkans.
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 22ND GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Boris III of BULGARIA was born in 1894 in Bulgaria.
Marie Louise of BULGARIA was born in 1933 in Bulgaria - dtr of Boris III.
Simeon II of BULGARIA was born in 1937 in Bulgaria - son of Boris III.
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 MSN Encarta - Bulgaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The rich spiritual life of medieval Bulgaria (especially in the 10th and 11th centuries), was the center of Slavic culture.
Bulgaria is a country in which music has a long, rich history.
In addition, the people of Bulgaria are served by many smaller library clubs (chitalisshta), a unique Bulgarian form of cultural center that has its origins in the national revival period of the 19th century.
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 Bulgaria.com - History, Rulers of Bulgaria - Boris I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Prince Boris I was an ardent champion of the independence of the newly-founded Bulgarian Church.
Boris sought a middle ground between the Patriarch of Constantinople and Pope Nicolas I. He sent a special delegation to the Pope with a list of 115 questions and was sent in response the famous 106 answers about the essence of religion, law, politics, customs and personal faith.
Boris I harvested the fruits of his wisdom and patience 870 when the Bulgarian Church was given autonomy from the Byzantine Church.
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 ipedia.com: Boris III of Bulgaria Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, the son of Tsar Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following Bulgaria 's defeat in World War I. This was the country's second major...
According to the post-World War I Treaty of Neuilly, Bulgaria was forced to cede land to its neighbors and pay crippling reparations, thereby threatening political and economic stability.
One year after Boris became tsar, Aleksandar Stamboliyski of the Agrarian Union was elected prime minister.
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 News report: Jews fondly remember Bulgaria's wartime protection
Authentic documents confirmed explicitly that the late King Boris III was the ultimate force in preventing the deportation (and, thus, the extermination) of the Bulgarian Jews.
Thus, King Boris III delayed the inevitable as long as it was possible and managed to negotiate optimal conditions: the Germans just to cross Bulgarian territory (fast, not as an occupying force, and along strictly designated routes) and the country to preserve its sovereignty.
In his Diary (1943) Prime Minister Filov quotes King Boris III as saying "...the German treatment of the Jews is inhuman." When Bulgarian Jews were forced to wear the Star of David, many of them attached to it the portraits of the King and the Royal Family.
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 Bulgaria
Boris accepted the primacy of the papacy in 866, but in 870, following the refusal of Pope Adrian II to make Bulgaria an archbishopric, he shifted his allegiance to the Eastern Orthodox church.
Bulgaria entered World War I in 1915 on the side of the Central Powers, but was forced to agree on an armistice with the Allies in September 1918.
Bulgaria declared war on Greece and Yugoslavia in April, shortly afterward occupying all of Yugoslav Macedonia, Grecian Thrace, eastern Greek Macedonia, and the Greek districts of Florina and Kastoría.
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 Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bulgaria has an interesting mix of religions that coexist respectfully and help make Bulgaria the colourful land that it is. The major religion in Bulgaria is Eastern Orthodoxy, and there are numerous religious minorities.
Mosques in Bulgaria include the Bania Bashi mosque in Sofia (1576), the Tombul mosque in Shumen, the Imaret mosque in Plovdiv and the Bairakli Mosque in Samokov.
Many of the Jews who resettled in Bulgaria and the rest of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century were Spanish Sepharadic and Ashenazi Jews fleeing the Inquisition.
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 Boris I of Bulgaria -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Boris I Michail or Boris I Michael ((A native or inhabitant of Bulgaria) Bulgarian Борис I Михаил)(d.
Boris sought the independence of the (Click link for more info and facts about Bulgarian Orthodox Church) Bulgarian Orthodox Church, keeping the middle ground between (Click link for more info and facts about Pope Nicholas I) Pope Nicholas I and the (Click link for more info and facts about Patriarch of Constantinople) Patriarch of Constantinople.
In (Click link for more info and facts about 893) 893 Boris retired to a monastic life and was succeeded by his son (Click link for more info and facts about Vladimir) Vladimir.
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 Simeon I of Bulgaria -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
One of the first decisions which he took after taking over the throne was to move the capital of Bulgaria from (Click link for more info and facts about Pliska) Pliska (still somewhat paganist) to (Click link for more info and facts about Preslav) Preslav.
To break away from Byzantine religious influence he replaced the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek (A rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship) liturgy with (A native or inhabitant of Bulgaria) Bulgarian.
Simeon lured the (A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries) Serbian king and the (Click link for more info and facts about Pecheneg) Pecheneg chief to his side, away from an attempted alliance with the Byzantines.
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 7. mai: Boris I av Bulgaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Den hellige Boris (Bogoris) I ble født i første halvdel av 800-tallet.
Boris hadde vært i kontakt med både den østlige og den vestlige kirken, og nølte nå i valget mellom dem.
Boris abdiserte i 889 og ble munk i et kloster, der han i 17 år levde i bønn og bot.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bulgaria, with a Jewish population of only 50,000, sided with Hitler's government early on, its king having become convinced that only with German aid could he successfully press his territorial claims to land lost to Greece and Romania.
Firstly Bulgaria's Jewish population was the victim of one of the worst pogroms in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century.
Bulgaria, which has a population of less than eight million people has been living for hundreds of years in peace with its Jews, almost a million Turks(which were killing us during the 500 years of the Ottoman Empire), half a million gypsies, armenians and many others.
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 King Boris III - Saviour of the Bulgarian Jews - People news
Boris was succeeded by his six-year-old son Simeon II, the current Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
So Boris, who successfully resisted the pressure of Hitler to deport the Jewish population of Bulgaria to the death camps and to send Bulgarian soldiers to the Eastern front, died in Sofia on August 28, 1943, under suspicious circumstances, just a few days after a meeting Hitler.
Boris countered German pressure with the argument that the Jews were needed in Bulgaria to build roads.
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Bulgaria’s geographical location, its ties through the monarch to Germany, and German promises to restore land lost earlier in the Twentieth Century explain some of the reasons and the most obvious one that Bulgaria was in no position to do otherwise.
Later, at the Yalta Conference, Bulgaria was placed in the sphere of Soviet influences by agreement from both the United States and Great Britain.
The first and most popularly held belief is that King Boris was poisoned by the Third Reich for his refusal to turn over the Bulgarian Jews to Hitler and to declare war on Russia.
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 A Reader's Guide to Bulgaria
Bulgaria's last two tsars are the subjects of entertaining and informative biographies: Stephen Constant, Foxy Ferdinand, 1861-1948: Tsar of Bulgaria (London: Sidgwich and Johnson, 1979), and Stephane Groueff, Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943 (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1987).
The most original and interesting political development in twentieth-century Bulgaria was the rise of the Agrarian movement as the principal opponent of ultranationalism and royal pretensions.
The BANU also led the opposition to the communization of Bulgaria after 1944, a subject that is the focus of Charles Moser, Dimitrov of Bulgaria (Ottawa, IL: Caroline House, 1979), the biography of Dr. G.
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 Boris I of Bulgaria
TSariat i negoviiat suvetnik : kniga za tsar Boris III i negoviia suvetnik Liubomir Lulchev
Boris Drangov : sbornik materiali i nauchni izsledvaniia
His alliance with the Frankish king Charles the Bald, Prince Rostislav of Moravia, the Byzantine Emperor Michael III, and eventually King Louis the German kept Bulgarian borders intact.
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 Boris I de Bulgaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Boris mantuvo las bandas de su país esencialmente sin cambios con diplomacia y las alianzas con el rey frankish Charles el calvo, príncipe Rostislav de Moravia, el emperador byzantine Michael III, y eventual rey Louis el alemán aunque el sufrimiento derrota.
Boris buscó la independencia de la iglesia búlgara, guardando la tierra de en medio entre papa Nicholas I y el patriarca de Constantinople.
En 893 Boris se retiró a una vida monastic y fue tenido éxito por su hijo Vladimir.
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