FORMER CZAR OF BULGARIA FERDINAND AND SLOVAKIA (1939 – 1944)

• Authors: Roman Holec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The former Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty often lived in Slovakia during the Second World War. His contacts with the political elite of the regime, his views on the geopolitical situation and his ordinary human joys and sorrows are the subject of a study based on previously unused and partly unknown foreign archive collections. It provides information about many behind the scenes events in the relationship of Ferdinand to the Slovak regime and its representatives. The study is a micro-analysis of an aristocrat and monarch mentally rooted in the 19th century, who found himself mixed up in the Second World War and Slovak development. Ferdinand is remembered as a monarch, who loved the people and nature of Slovakia.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY; WORLD WAR II; CZAR FERDINAND OF BULGARIA; SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA DYNASTY; SLOVAKIA; SLOVAK – BULGARIAN RELATIONS; POLITICS

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: suppl. issue
• Pages: 75 – 103

Contributors

author

Roman Holec

• Historický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic