- Dimitar Petkov
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Dimitar Petkov
Димитар ПетковFile:Dimitar Petkov.jpg In office
December 6, 1906 – March 11, 1907Preceded by Racho Petrov Succeeded by Dimitar Stanchov Personal details Born 2 November 1858
Tulcea, Ottoman Empire now in RomaniaDied 11 March 1907 (aged 48)
Sofia, BulgariaNationality Bulgarian Political party Bulgarian People's Liberal Party Dimitar Nikolov Petkov (Bulgarian: Димитър Петков) (1858, Tulcea – March 11, 1907, Sofia) was a leading member of the Bulgarian People's Liberal Party and the country's Prime Minister from November 5, 1906 until he was assassinated in Sofia the following year.
A veteran of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 he fought for the Russian Imperial Army at the Battle of Shipka Pass where he lost an arm during the combat.[1]
Petkov spent five years (1888–1893) as mayor of Sofia and during his time in charge he undertook an extensive redevelopment of the city.[2]
Following the death of Stefan Stambolov in 1895 he took over as leader of People's Liberal Party, a role he held until his own death when Nikola Genadiev succeeded him.[3] Petkov's party took office in 1903 following the resignation of Stoyan Danev but Ferdinand I of Bulgaria chose a non-party Prime Minister, his close friend Racho Petrov, instead of Petkov.[4] He was finally appointed Prime Minister in November 1906 but held the post for only a few months as he was murdered in Sofia's Boulevard Alexander II.[5]
His son Nikola Petkov was also a politician in post-war Bulgaria before being put to death in 1947.[6]
References
- ^ Thomas McGonigle, The corpse dream of N. Petkov, Northwestern University Press, 2000, p. 29
- ^ Duncan M. Perry, Stefan Stambolov and the emergence of modern Bulgaria, 1870-1895, Duke University Press, 1993, p. 185
- ^ R. J. Crampton, Bulgaria, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 451
- ^ R. J. Crampton, A concise history of Bulgaria, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 127
- ^ McGonigle, The corpse dream of N. Petkov, p. 32
- ^ Joseph Rothschild, The Communist party of Bulgaria: origins and development, 1883-1936, AMS Press, 1972, p. 37
Preceded by
Racho PetrovPrime Minister of Bulgaria
1906–1907Succeeded by
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