Portal:Bulgaria

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Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeastern 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 across the Danube river to the north. It covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), making it the tenth largest within the European Union and the sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Plovdiv, Varna, and Burgas.

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. A developed country, its advanced, high-income economy is part of the European single market and is largely based on services, followed by manufacturing, 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. Bulgaria is a member state of the European Union, including the Schengen Area and the eurozone, NATO, and various regional suborganizations such as the Bucharest Nine. (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 around 850,000 ethnic Turks were forcibly renamed by the People's Republic of Bulgaria in the 1980s?
... that basketball player Charel Allen was a five-time Bulgarian Cup champion despite knowing only a few words of Bulgarian?
... that Will Wood conducted a Bulgarian choir via Zoom for "White Noise"?
... that Swiss national Charles Champaud represented Bulgaria at the 1896 Summer Olympics?
... that the combination of Bulgarian choral music and Tuvan throat singing on Fly, Fly My Sadness was inspired by multiple albums being played at the same time?

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

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Konaraevo summit and Perleshki lakes in northern Pirin mountain, Bulgaria.

A view of the northern part of the Pirin mountain. The second-highest mountain of Bulgaria, Pirin is famed for its 176 glacier lakes and harbours the UNESCO World Heritage Pirin National Park.

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...that the chitalishte (community centre) in Novo Selo (pictured), constructed in 1930, is also a memorial to locals who perished in war?

...that Hadzhi Dimitar was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionary workers for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule?

...that the earliest traces of human settlement in the Pleven area date from the 5th millennium BC, the Neolithic era?

...that the town of Tutrakan was founded by the Ancient Romans in the end of the first half of the 1st century under the name Transmarisca?

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