Dimitar Grekov

Димитър Греков10th Prime Minister of BulgariaIn office
30 January 1899 – 13 October 1899MonarchFerdinandPreceded byKonstantin StoilovSucceeded byTodor IvanchovMinister of JusticeIn office
5 July 1879 – 26 March 1880Preceded byoffice establishedSucceeded byHristo StoyanovIn office
23 June 1882 – 3 March 1883Preceded byGeorgi TeoharovSucceeded byGeorgi Teoharov Personal detailsBorn14 September 1847
Bolhrad, Russian EmpireDied7 May 1901 (1901-05-08) (aged 53)
Sofia, BulgariaNationalityBulgarianPolitical partyPeople's Liberal PartyOccupationJudicial Officer, Politician

Dimitar Panayotov Grekov (Bulgarian: Димитър Панайотов Греков) (14 September 1847 – 7 May 1901) was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who also served as Prime Minister.

A native of Bolgrad in Bessarabia (now Bolhrad, Ukraine), Grekov was educated at a French legal school.^[1]

Grekov, at the time a Conservative, was a member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly convened in February 1879, a body that formed the basis of the national parliament of the newly independent state.^[2] In the 1879 cabinet of Todor Burmov he served as Minister of Justice, the first of an independent Bulgaria.^[1]

In 1886 prime minister and regent Stefan Stambolov chose Grekov, along with Konstantin Kanchev and Konstantin Stoilov, to travel around Europe in order to find a prince suitable for the throne of Bulgaria. The three man team searched in Belgrade and Vienna and were refused entry into Russia before settling on Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to whom they offered the crown.^[3]

Grekov was appointed prime minister on 30 January 1899 and was removed from office on 13 October that same year after a brief and unremarkable tenure.

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Political offices
Preceded by office established	Minister of Justice 1879–1880	Succeeded by Hristo Stoyanov
Preceded by Georgi Teoharov	Minister of Interior 1882–1883	Succeeded by Georgi Teoharov
Preceded by Konstantin Stoilov	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1899	Succeeded by Todor Ivanchov