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Encyclopedia > Tsar of Bulgaria


Early Bulgar leaders bore the title of baltavar (balt-avar), which literally means "ruler of Avars". Later they acquired the title Khan and Khagan, still later the title tsar.

Contents

List of Bulgarian rulers

Legendary rulers

  • Avitokhol (Atila)
  • Irnik

Historical persons

  • Gostun
  • Organa, regent (? - 619)

the Dulo clan (? - 740, before 808 - 976)


At times, the reign in the Bulgar lands was split.

the Ukil clan (739-761, 764-766)

the Ugain clan (761-764)

Anarchy (767-770)

period of confusion (802 - 808)

House of Comitopuli (976-1018)

Byzantine rule (1018 - 1185)


House of Asen (the Asenites) (1186-1277, 1279-1280)


House of Terter (1280-1292, 1300-1323)

Mongolian monarch in Bulgaria 1298-1300

House of Shishman (1323-1396)

Ottoman rule (1396 - 1878)


House of Battenberg (1879-1886)

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1887-1946)


Monarchy abolished in 1946


See also


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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.
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