Dimitar Panayotov Grekov () (14 September 1847 – 7 May 1901) was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who also served as

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. A native of Bolgrad in

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(now

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), Grekov was educated at a

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legal school.Assen Nicoloff, ''The Bulgarian Resurgence'', A. Nicoloff, 1987, p. 106 Grekov, at the time a

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

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and were refused entry into

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before settling on Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to whom they offered the crown.Perry, ''Stefan Stambolov'', pp. 112-113 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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1847 births 1901 deaths Chairpersons of the National Assembly of Bulgaria People from Bolhrad Bessarabian Bulgarians Conservative Party (Bulgaria) politicians People's Liberal Party politicians Prime Ministers of Bulgaria 19th-century Bulgarian people Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Justice ministers of Bulgaria {{Bulgaria-politician-stub