Conflict: | September Uprising |
Partof: | the Revolutions of 1917–1923 |
Date: | 14–29 September 1923 |
Place: | Bulgaria |
Result: | Bulgarian government victory
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Combatant1: | Bulgarian government IMRO Shpitskomandi (paramilitary volunteers) White émigré |
Combatant2: | Bulgarian Communist Party Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Anarchists |
Commander2: | Georgi Dimitrov Vasil Kolarov |
Casualties3: | 841 killed[1] Museum of the Revolutionary Movement in Bulgaria, Stars in the Ages, Publishing House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Sofia, 1972, 791 pages. |
The September Uprising (Bulgarian: Септемврийско въстание, Septemvriysko vastanie) was a 1923 communist insurgency in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) attempted to overthrow Alexander Tsankov's new government established following the coup d'état of 9 June.