Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1990 – present

Bulgaria

A state of 1990 – present — 36 years, still standing in Europe. It replaced People's Republic of Bulgaria. The atlas records 10 things within it — unrest and atrocity 1 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 1 · people 7. Its line of rulers holds 7 people.

  • Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
36 years
and still standing
Rulers
7
the President of Bulgaria
Most ground
109,500 km²
in 1992
Within it
10
recorded rows
Symbols
8
on record, with years
Map: Bulgaria in 1992, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Bulgaria in 1992, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 109,500 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000People's Republic of Bulgaria: 1946 – 1990Bulgaria: 1990 – 2026

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Rulers

The line of President of Bulgaria - the office this state names as its head of state.

Petar Mladenov · 1990 – 1990 · left office aliveZhelyu Zhelev · 1992 – 1997 · left office alivePetar Stoyanov · 1997 – 2002 · no death date to read the end againstGeorgi Parvanov · 2002 – 2012 · no death date to read the end againstRosen Plevneliev · 2012 – 2017 · no death date to read the end againstRumen Radev · 2017 – 2026 · resignedIliana Iotova · 2026 – … · resigned or stood down, the article says1990200020102020
left alive by a regular roadending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Petar Mladenov1990 – 1990under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Zhelyu Zhelev1992 – 19975 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Petar Stoyanov1997 – 20025 yearsending not on record
Georgi Parvanov2002 – 201210 yearsending not on record
Rosen Plevneliev2012 – 20175 yearsending not on record
Rumen Radev2017 – 20269 yearsresignedWikidata's end cause on the term
Iliana Iotova2026 – in officein office since 2026resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1990 – 2026. Only 36 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 6 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.97, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Heads of government

The line of Prime Minister of Bulgaria, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Goritsa Grancharova-Kozharevalived 1966 – …
Andrey Lukanov1990 – 1990
Dimitar Iliev Popov1990 – 1991
Philip Dimitrov1991 – 1992
Lyuben Berov1992 – 1994
Reneta Indzhova1994 – 1995
Zhan Videnov1995 – 1997
Ivan Kostov1997 – 2001
Stefan Sofiyanski1997 – 1997
Simeon II2001 – 2005
Sergey Stanishev2005 – 2009
Boyko Borisov2009 – 2013
Plamen Oresharski2013 – 2014
Marin Raykov2013 – 2013
Georgi Bliznashki2014 – 2014
Boyko Borisov2014 – 2017
Ognyan Gerdzhikov2017 – 2017
Boyko Borisov2017 – 2021
Kiril Petkov2021 – 2022
Stefan Janev2021 – 2021
Galab Donev2022 – 2023
Nikolai Denkov2023 – 2024
Dimitar Glavchev2024 – 2025
Rosen Zhelyazkov2025 – 2026
Andrey Gyurov2026 – 2026
Rumen Radev2026 – …

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

199520002005201020152020

109,500 km² in 1995, 109,500 km² in 2020; at its largest 109,500 km² in 1995. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Flag of Bulgaria (digital)
    flag, from 1879Flag of Bulgaria (digital) · Public domain
  • Flag of Bulgaria
    flag, 1879 – 1947Flag of Bulgaria · Public domain
  • Flag of Bulgaria (1946–1948)
    flag, 1947 – 1948Flag of Bulgaria (1946–1948) · Public domain
  • Flag of Bulgaria (1948–1967)
    flag, 1948 – 1968Flag of Bulgaria (1948–1967) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Scroch
  • Flag of Bulgaria (1967–1971)
    flag, 1968 – 1971Flag of Bulgaria (1967–1971) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Scroch
  • Flag of Bulgaria (1971–1990)
    flag, 1971 – 1990Flag of Bulgaria (1971–1990) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Scroch
  • Flag of Bulgaria
    flag, from 1990Flag of Bulgaria · Public domain
  • Coat of arms of Bulgaria
    coat of arms, from 1997Coat of arms of Bulgaria · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 1999: 7 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 7 other19002000 – 2099: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other2000

1900 – 19997 rows

2000 – 20993 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood36 years

    stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held109,500 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 47% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • Rulers on record7

    has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 9 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Vienna offensive · Recorded · 1945Vienna offensivePeople's Republic of Bulgaria · Linked · 1946 – 1990People's Republic of BulgariaBasil II · In the article · 958 · “Following the death of Basil II in 1025, Byzantine domestic policy shifted from centralized, militaristic consolidation to a fragile, civilian-led administrat…”Basil IIPersian · In the article · 550 BCE · “Following the defeat of the second Persian invasion in 479 BC, most of the Thracian tribes united under king Teres to form the Odrysian kingdom.”PersianElias Canetti · Coincidence · 1905 – 1994Elias CanettiTodor Zhivkov · Coincidence · 1911 – 1998Todor ZhivkovBulgaria · 1990 – 2026Bulgaria500 BCE1500100015002000
recordedin the articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q219 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.