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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 Xavier ), son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I.
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On 1 March 1941, Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact and Tsar Boris III officially joined the Axis bloc.
In 1943, tsar Boris III died suddenly.
* 1894 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria ( d. 1943 )
Image: MenoraBoris. jpg | The Menorah, presented to Tsar Boris III from the Bulgarian Jewish community ( Tsarska Bistritsa )
* 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
He is succeeded by his son, Boris III.
* August 28 – WWII: King Boris III of Bulgaria dies under peculiar circumstances ; his 6-year-old son, Simeon II, ascends to the throne.
* August 28 – King Boris III of Bulgaria ( b. 1894 )
** King Boris III of Bulgaria ( d. 1943 )
In September 1918, Tsar Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his son Boris III in order to head off anti-monarchic revolutionary tendencies.
Boris III in 1933
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918 – 1943
The Kingdom of Bulgaria was ruled by Тsar Boris III when it signed the Tripartite Pact on 1 March 1941.
Adolf Hitler promised the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III that Bulgaria would receive all the territory she had lost in return for Bulgaria joining the Axis.
In 1918 Boris was made a major general and with the abdication of his father acceded to the throne as Tsar Boris III on 3 October 1918.
Boris III of Bulgaria in April 1929
After the second attempt, the military in power exterminated in reprisals several thousand communists and agrarians including representatives of the intelligentsia. Boris III of Bulgaria and Prime-minister Kimon Georgiev during the opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies ( Sofia, 09.
Boris married Giovanna of Italy, daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, first in Assisi in October 1930 ( attended by Benito Mussolini ), and then at an Orthodox ceremony in Sofia.
Under King Boris III, Bulgaria was the only nation in Europe to save its entire Jewish population during the Holocaust.
The grave of Tsar Boris III in the Rila Monastery.
Boris and Tsar
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The four of them were afterwards sent to the Bulgarian capital of Pliska, where they were commissioned by Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria to instruct the future clergy of the state in the Slavonic language.
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* April 13 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia ( b. 1551 )
* Peter I abdicates and retires to a monastery and is succeeded by Boris II as Tsar of Bulgaria.
** Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia ( d. 1605 )
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: Act 2: ' With Tsar Boris '
Initially Old Church Slavonic was written with the Glagolitic alphabet, but later Glagolitic was replaced by Cyrillic., which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire by a decree of Tsar Boris I in the IX century.
Prince Kiril of Bulgaria was appointed head of a regency council by the Bulgarian parliament following the death of his brother, Tsar Boris on 28 August 1943, to act as Head of State until the late Tsar's son, Simeon II of Bulgaria, became 18.
Tsar Boris appeared on the cover of Time Magazine on 20 January 1941 wearing a full military uniform.
On 9 August 1943 Hitler summoned Boris to a stormy meeting at Rastenburg, East Prussia, where Tsar Boris arrived by plane from Vrazhdebna on Saturday, 14 August.
Boris and Bulgaria
Many of them ( including Naum, Clement, Angelarious, Sava and Gorazd ), however, reached Bulgaria and were commissioned by Boris I of Bulgaria to teach and instruct the future clergy of the state into the Slavic languages.
Fearing growing Byzantine influence and weakening of the state, Boris viewed the introduction of the Slavic alphabet and language in church use as a way to preserve the independence of Slavic Bulgaria from Greek Constantinople.
** Boris I of Bulgaria ( Bulgarian Orthodox Church )
* Bulgarian Jews who left Bulgaria, a result of his request to King Boris of Bulgaria.
Fearing growing Byzantine influence and weakening of the state, Boris viewed the adoption of the Old Slavonic language as a way to preserve the political independence and stability of Bulgaria.
* 864: Christianization of Bulgaria under Boris I
* Boris I of Bulgaria
* The Christianization of Bulgaria begins: Khan Boris I of Bulgaria is baptized an Orthodox Christian.
* Boris I Michael succeeds the duumvirate of Malamir and Presian as monarch of Bulgaria.
* Bulgaria under Boris I converts to Orthodox Christianity.
* Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.
Since the Bulgars had been raiding Byzantine lands since 976, the Byzantine government sought to cause dissension amongst them by first allowing the escape of their captive emperor Boris II of Bulgaria.
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