biography
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Battenberg, Prince Alexander of
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| lived:
| (1820–93)
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| biography:
| First prince of Bulgaria, and uncle of Earl Mountbatten, born in Verona, N Italy. An officer in the Hessian army, he was elected prince of the new principality of Bulgaria in 1879. In 1885 he annexed E Romania after an uprising there, thereby provoking the hostility of Serbia. In 1886 he was overpowered by pro-Russian army conspirators in his palace in Sofia, and forced to abdicate. |
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