Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and M. Iltcheff, Director of the Sofia Museum, comfortably seated in an automobile, were being whirled along the white road that lies between Orchanie, a country town, and Sofia, the capital. As the car passed along a narrow strip of road between two high banks, a volley of shots rang out. M. Iltcheff and a servant were killed, the chauffeur was wounded, one side of the King's moustache was clipped. Instantly, the King took control of the car but, failing to turn it on account of the broken steering gear, jumped...
Died. Prof. Nicola Mileff, recently appointed Bulgarian Minister to the U. S. to succeed Stephan Panaretoff, retired last month; in Sofia, victim of an assassin...
...request of Boris III, King of the Bulgars, Dr. Mary Mills Patrick set out from Constantinople, crossed the Bosphorus, made her way to Sofia. There King Boris pinned upon...
Premier Alexander Zankoff supplied the American Legation in Sofia with "large quantities of documentary evidence of Russian Soviet activities in Bulgaria...
...took place at Sofia. A company of soldiers bearing the Bulgarian national flag marched to the gate of the Yugo-Slavian Legation. The regimental band played the Yugo-Slavian national anthem and the soldiers saluted the Yugo-Slavian flag. M. Rakitch, Yugo-Slavian Minister to Bulgaria, and his staff, stood on the porch and watched the proceedings, which lasted ten minutes, with evident satisfaction...