Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, I

1861 - 1948  (87 years)

• Name	Ferdinand Of Bulgaria  [1]
  Suffix	I
  Birth	26 Feb 1861	Vienna, Austria   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Sep 1948	Coburg, Germany   [1]
  Person ID	I61790	The Kingealogy
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Augustus Of Saxe-Coburg,   b. 1818, Germany d. 1881 (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Princess of France Clbementine,   b. 3 Jun 1817, Chcateau De Neuilly, Neuilly, Seine, France d. 16 Feb 1907, Wien, Wien, Austria (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	1843  [1]
  Family ID	F22643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Louise, of Parma,   b. 1870, Parma, Italy d. 1899 (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	1893  [1]
  Children	+   1. King of Bulgaria Boris, III,   b. 30 Jan 1894, Sofia, Bulgaria d. 28 Aug 1943, Sofia, Bulgaria (Age 49 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     2. Nadezhda Of Bulgaria,   b. 1899, Bulgaria d. 1958 (Age 59 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F22584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2015

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Feb 1861 - Vienna, Austria  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  [royalfam.ged] In 1878, Russia forced Turkey to give Bulgaria its independence after the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877-78), but the European powers, fearing Russia's and Bulgaria's dominance in the Balkans , intervened at the Congress of Berlin (1878), limited Bulgaria's territory, and fashioned i t into a small principality ruled by the nephew of the Russian czar, Alexander of Battenburg. Alexander was succeeded in 1887 by Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who declared a king dom independent of Russia on Oct. 5, 1908. In the First Balkan War (1912-13), Bulgaria and th e other members of the Balkan League fought against Turkey to regain Balkan territory. Angere d by the small portion of Macedonia it received after the battle-it considered Macedonia an i ntegral part of Bulgaria-the country instigated the Second Balkan War (June-Aug. 1913) agains t Turkey as well as its former allies. Bulgaria lost the war and all the territory it had gai ned in the First Balkan War. Bulgaria joined Germany in World War I in the hope of again gain ing Macedonia. After this second failure, Ferdinand abdicated in favor of his son in 1918. Bo ris III squandered Bulgaria's resources and assumed dictatorial powers in 1934-35. Bulgaria f ought on the side of the Nazis in World War II, but after Russia declared war on Bulgaria o n Sept. 5, 1944, Bulgaria switched sides. Three days later, on Sept. 9, 1944, a Communist coa lition took control of the country and set up a government under Kimon Georgiev.

  
  

• Sources

  [S255 ] Gedcom: royalfam.ged. Date of Import: Feb 10, 2006