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| 1899 |
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| Forced by the costs of independent administration (state expenditure rose from 20 million leva in 1880 to 181 million leva in 1911), the government secured a loan from France, the first of many foreign loans that plagued Bulgaria's development. | 1 |
| Also, as grain prices began to rise, the government announced plans to return to a tithe in kind for the years 1900 to 1904, replacing the land tax. This gave rise to the agrarian movement. | 2 |
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| Dec |
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| The Bulgarian Agrarian Union was created in Pleven. | 3 |
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