Andrey Toshev
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Stara Zagora
Stara Zagora is the sixth largest city in Bulgaria, and a nationally important economic center. Located in Southern Bulgaria, it is the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province...
- 10 January 1944) was Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
of Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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in 1935. He was also a Bulgarian scientist and a diplomat.
Appointed by Tsar Boris III
Boris III of Bulgaria
Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...
, Toshev was chosen for his unflinching loyalty in the uncertainty following the military coup of Zveno
Zveno
Zveno was a Bulgarian military and political organization, founded in 1927 by army officers. It was associated with a newspaper of that name....
in 1934. He headed a purely civilian cabinet after a period of military rule and was in effect a puppet of the Tsar. His Premiership proved short-lived when the elections of November 1935 were won by Georgi Kyoseivanov
Georgi Kyoseivanov
Georgi Ivanov Kyoseivanov was a Bulgarian politician who went on to serve as Prime Minister.Kyoseivanov came to power on 23 November 1935 after a period in which the country had had three Prime Ministers in quick succession...
.
Toshev also served in diplomatic roles as the Bulgarian ambassador to Serbia
Serbia
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from 1909 to 1913, in which capacity he helped bring about the formation of the Balkan League
Balkan League
The Balkan League was an alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Balkan states of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which at the time still controlled much of the Balkan peninsula...
, and also as the Bulgarian ambassador to Constantinople from 1913 to 1914.