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List of Bulgarian regents

List of Bulgarian regents

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This is a list of Bulgarian regents. A regent, from the Latin regens ("one who reigns"), is a person selected to act as head of state (ruling or not) because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated.[1]

Middle Ages

Kavhan Isbul was regent after the death of Khan Omurtag, when his successor Khan Malamir was still a minor. He was also regent of Presiyan I, the minor nephew of Malamir.

On behalf of the infant king Кoloman I Asen (1241–1246), the country was ruled by a regency. When he died, a regency council led by Irina Komnina ruled on behalf of King Michael II Asen from 1246–1253.

A regency council on behalf of Ivan IV Smilets headed by his mother Smiltsena and despot Eltimir ruled from 1298–1299.

Regents after Prince Alexander I

Stefan Stambolov, Sava Mutkurov and Petko Karavelov (replaced by Georgi Zhivkov) were regents after the abdication of Prince Alexander Battenberg in August 1886 until the election and inauguration of the new Prince Ferdinand I Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in August 1887.

Regents for Tsar Simeon II

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Notes and references

  1. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as "A person appointed to administer a State because the Monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated."

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