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Boris III of Bulgaria

Died on August 28, 1943

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Boris III (Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver; 30 January 1894 – 28 August 1943) was Tsar of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943. The eldest son of Ferdinand I, Boris assumed the throne upon the abdication of his father in the wake of Bulgaria's defeat in World War I.

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