State · 1878 – 1908
Principality of Bulgaria
A state of 1878 – 1908 — 30 years in Europe. It was replaced by Kingdom of Bulgaria. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 30 years
- 1878 – 1908
- Rulers
- 2
- the head of state
- Most ground
- 99,500 km²
- in 1885
- Within it
- 7
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
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.
After it
- Kingdom of Bulgaria · replaced by · 1908 – 1946
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
2 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
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.
63,300 km² in 1883, 99,500 km² in 1903; at its largest 99,500 km² in 1888. 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, undatedFlag of Bulgaria · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_(1881%E2%80%931927).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Bulgaria (1881–1927) · CC BY-SA 3.0
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.
1800 – 18996 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Alexander of Battenberg · ruler · 1857 – 1893
- Petre Dumitrescu · commander · 1882 – 1950
- Vlado Chernozemski · person · 1897 – 1934
- Nichifor Crainic · philosopher · 1889 – 1972
- Battle of Slivnitsa · battle · 1885
- Ioan Mihail Racoviță · commander · 1889 – 1954
1900 – 19991 row
- Elias Canetti · scientist · 1905 – 1994
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 stood30 years
stood longer than 26% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held99,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 45% 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 record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, 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.
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
- On the timeline, 1868 – 1918, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1885, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q815731 (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.