Dimitar Panayotov Grekov (14 September 1847 – 7 May 1901) was a leading Bulgaria

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n liberal

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 politician who also served as Prime Minister.

A native of Bolgrad in Bessarabia

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 (now Bolhrad

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, Ukraine

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), Grekov was educated at a French

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 legal school.

Grekov, at the time a Conservative

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 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. In the 1879 cabinet of Todor Burmov

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 he served as Minister of Justice, the first of an independent Bulgaria.

In 1886 Prime Minister and regent Stefan Stambolov

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 chose Grekvo, along with Konstantin Kanchev and Konstantin Stoilov

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, to travel around Europe in order to find a prince suitable for the throne of Bulgaria. The three man team searched in Belgrade

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 and Vienna

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 and were refused entry into Russia

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 before settling on Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

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to whom they offered the crown.

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.