Boris III

Boris III
1894-1943, king of Bulgaria 1918-43.

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▪ king of Bulgaria

born Jan. 30, 1894, Sofia, Bulg.
died Aug. 28, 1943, Sofia
 king of Bulgaria from 1918 to 1943, who during the last five years of his reign headed a thinly veiled royal dictatorship.

      The son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma, Boris, despite his Roman Catholic parentage, was brought up in the Orthodox faith for political and dynastic reasons. He succeeded his father as king of Bulgaria when he abdicated Oct. 4, 1918. An opponent of Bulgaria's dictatorial prime minister, the Agrarian Union leader Aleksandŭr Stamboliyski, Boris is generally considered to have played some role in the coup that removed Stamboliyski from power in June 1923. During the following years he was the object of terrorist conspiracies inspired by the Comintern; two attempts were made on his life within a few days in April 1925 by the communists and by Marxist-oriented Agrarians. In the second assassination attempt a cathedral in Sofia was bombed, killing hundreds of people at a funeral service. Boris's marriage to Princess Giovanna of Italy (1930) temporarily cemented Italian relations, but during the late 1930s he passed more into the German orbit and sought rapprochement with Yugoslavia. After the establishment of a military dictatorship in Bulgaria (1934) by the authoritarian Zveno Group, Boris worked to remove it and gradually reassert his power; by November 1935 he had successfully installed Georgi Kyoseivanov, a diplomat and personal favourite, as prime minister. From 1938 until his death Boris was dictator in all but name.

      After Bulgaria's adhesion to the Axis pact (March 1941), Boris maintained a modicum of independence; even after Bulgaria's entry into World War II on the side of the Axis and its assistance with the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, he was able to resist declaring war against Russia. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler (Hitler, Adolf) demanded the deportation of Bulgarian Jews, who numbered some 50,000. Within Bulgaria there was grassroots opposition to this demand, and in the spring of 1943, Boris canceled all agreements for the deportation. Earlier, however, he did not halt the deportation of 11,000 Jews from Macedonia and Thrace. Boris died shortly after a stormy interview with Hitler. Whether his death was caused by heart attack or by assassination is uncertain.

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