European history

European history

Contributors in European history

European history

The Principality of Bulgaria was a self-governing entity created as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. The preliminary treaty of San Stefano between the Russian Empire ...

Eastern Rumelia

History; European history

Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an administratively autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1908. It was under full Bulgarian control from 1885 on, when it willingly united ...

Unification of Bulgaria

History; European history

The Unification of Bulgaria was the act of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the then-Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885. The Unification was accomplished after ...

Alexander of Battenberg

History; European history

Alexander Joseph of Battenberg GCB (5 April 1857 – 23 October 1893) was the first prince (knyaz) of modern Bulgaria, reigning from 29 April 1879 to 7 September 1886.

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

History; European history

Ferdinand (February 26, 1861 – September 10, 1948), born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz (prince ...

Boris III of Bulgaria

History; European history

Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria (30 January 1894 – 28 August 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver (Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus ...

Simeon II of Bulgaria

History; European history

Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha or Simeon II of Bulgaria (born 16 June 1937) is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria. During his reign as the Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946 ...