Kingdom of Bulgaria, 1908-1944: Army and Government flags

Царство Българи&

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by rob raeside
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• Introduction
• Minister of Army
• Chief of Staff of the Army
• Chief of the Third and Fourth Inspections of the Army 
• Minister of Railways

• Royal flags, 1908-1944
• Naval flags, 1908-1944
• Coat of arms, 1908-1944
• Bulgaria
• Bulgaria: Index to all pages

Introduction

The Kingdom of Bulgaria extended from 1908-1946, though for the purpose of flag research, the period ended on 9 September 1944. There are three main sources of flags of the period mentioned in Ivanov (1998). The first is the collection of the Naval Museum, from where are mentioned the naval ensign and kings and queens standard. The second is the (Bogoslovski, 1912) "Al'bom shtandartov i flagov inostrannyh gosudarstv", Sofiya 1912, and the third is a Naval manual that I shall cover latter on. The Ivanov (1998) book contains pictures from the last one, but it also has detailed reports on what's in others, highlighting some differences. As far as I have understood the flags preserved in the Naval Museum are of the same pattern as those published in Bogoslovski book. They are treated together and even if I have reservations - have no evidence why I should not do the same. All the flags here would be reconstructions from descriptions. Even if the descriptions are