Portal:Bulgaria

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Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi) and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna.

Since adopting a democratic constitution in 1991, Bulgaria has been a parliamentary republic composed of 28 provinces, with a high degree of political, administrative, and economic centralisation. Its high-income economy is part of the European Single Market and is largely based on services, followed by manufacturing and mining—and agriculture. Bulgaria has been influenced by its role as a transit country for natural gas and oil pipelines, as well as its strategic location on the Black Sea. Its foreign relations have been shaped by its geographical location and its modern membership in the European Union and NATO. (Full article...)

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Map of Theodore Svetoslav's military campaigns also showing Aldimir's lands

Aldimir (Bulgarian: Алдимир) or Eltimir (Елтимир) (fl. 1280–1305) was a Bulgarian noble of the 13th–14th century. A member of the Terter dynasty and a younger brother of Tsar George I Terter, Aldimir was an influential local ruler as the despot of Kran. Aldimir rose to that position under his brother George, though as Smilets assumed the throne he was forced into exile. At the turn of the 14th century, Aldimir returned to Bulgaria as an ally of the regent widowed consort Smiltsena. He did not oppose the accession of his nephew Theodore Svetoslav and even assisted him in ousting his contenders. However, he was promptly eliminated by Theodore Svetoslav when he betrayed him to ally with the Byzantines. (Full article...)

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... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
... that Will Wood conducted a Bulgarian choir via Zoom for "White Noise"?
... that Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria?
... that basketball player Charel Allen was a five-time Bulgarian Cup champion despite knowing only a few words of Bulgarian?

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Image 1Danube river in Bulgaria
Image 2Sofia is the biggest city in Bulgaria.
Image 3Rila is a mountain in West Bulgaria
Image 4A beach in Bulgaria.
Image 5Razgrad is a city in East Bulgaria.
Image 6Maritsa is a river in South Bulgaria.
Image 7Varna lake is a salt lake near Black sea.

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With a population of 385 Melnik (Bulgarian: Мелник), situated near the Melnik Rock Pyramids, is the smallest town in Bulgaria.

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...that Perperikon (ruins pictured), an ancient Thracian city, is the largest megalith ensemble in the Balkans?

...that an ore-miner settlement existed on the present location of Chiprovtsi since Thracian times, and was Kiprovets by the Slavs who inhabited it?