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Name: People's Republic of Bulgaria

Type: Polity

Start: 1946 AD

End: 1991 AD

Nation: bulgaria

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This article is about the specific polity People's Republic of Bulgaria and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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The advancing Red Army occupied the Kingdom of Bulgaria, an axis power, in 1944. The country was reduced to a puppet state before becoming independent again as a country of the Warsaw Pact, the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

Establishment


  • September 1946: Monarchy abolished in Bulgaria on 15 September 1946. Bulgaria becomes a Republic.
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    1. Events


  • July 1991: Following the BSP victory in the 1990 election, which was the first openly contested multi-party election since 1931, the name of the state was changed to the Republic of Bulgaria.

  • Disestablishment


  • July 1991: Following the BSP victory in the 1990 election, which was the first openly contested multi-party election since 1931, the name of the state was changed to the Republic of Bulgaria.
  • Selected Sources


  • Flemming, Thomas / Steinhage, Axel / Strunk, Peter (1995): Chronik 1946: Tag für Tag in Wort und Bild, Chronik-Verlag/Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag,p. 146
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