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Bulgaria is located in Southeast Europe, in the northeast part of the Balkan Peninsula.The official time in Bulgaria is Eastern European Time, which is two hours ahead of Greenwich Time.A series of major European transport corridors pass through Bulgaria.Bulgaria borders to the north with Romania, to the east with the Black Sea, to the south with Turkey and Greece, and to the west with Macedonia and Serbia.With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country.
Motto : Unity makes strength
National anthem of BulgariaMila Rodino
Gorda Stara planina,do ney Dunava siney,slantse Trakiya ogryava,nad Pirina plameney.Refrain: (twice)Mila Rodino,ti si zemen ray,tvoyta hubost, tvoyta prelest, ah, te nyamat kray.
Dear Motherland
Proud Balkan Mountains,next to it the Danube sparkles,the sun shines over Thrace,and blazes over Pirin.
Refrain: (twice)Dear Motherland,you are heaven on earth,your beauty, your loveliness,ah, they are boundless.
Population - 7,364,570
Bulgarian Official Holidays1 January – New Year’s Day3 March – National Holiday /Bulgaria’s Liberation from the Ottoman Empire/1 May – Labour and International Worker’s Solidarity Day6 May – Gergyovden (St. George’s Day), and the Bulgarian Army’s Day24 May - Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavic Script Day6 September - Unification Day22 September – Independence Day1 November – Day of the Bulgarian Enlighteners (Holiday for all educational institutions)24 December - Christmas Eve25, 26 December - Christmas DaysEaster Holidays– 4 days /Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday and Monday/ according to the Orthodox calendar of the year
Bulgaria - land of history, culture and traditions...
Mummers
Nestinarstvo
Survaki
Martenitsi
Round loaf ( Pogacha) Welcome with bread and salt
Bulgarian folklore
Valya Mladenova Balkanskais a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin ", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It is expected that her voice will be played in space for at least 60,000 years more.
Gifts for the godfathers
Rychenica
Trifon Zarezan
Clever Peter Bai Ganyo Krali Marko
The three brothers and the golden apple The Span one elbow beard The Sandman
Capital(and largest city)- Sofia
Official language : BulgarianOfficial script : Cyrillic
The lev ( plural: leva,levove) is the currency of Bulgaria. It is divided in 100 stotinki (singular: stotinka). In archaic Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language became lav.
History of Bulgaria
Thracians
Orpheus
Spartacus
The Valley of Roses and Thracian Kings
First Bulgarian Empire
Khan Asparuh Khan Tervel
Khan Krum
Tsar Boris I
Tsar Simeon Veliki
St. Ivan Rilski
Madara Rider
Second Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Kaloyan Tsar Ivan Asen II Tsar Ivan Alexander
Asenova krepost
Tsarevets
Kaliakra
Freedom Fighters
Against the Ottoman Empire
Third Bulgarian state
The communist period
Democracy - 1989Bulgaria became a member of NATO in 2004 and of the European Union in 2007.
Bulgarian UNESCO SitesCulturalAncient City of Nessebar(1983)Boyana Church(1979)Madara Rider (1979)Rila Monastery1983)Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo (1979)Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak1979)Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari(1985)NaturalPirin National Park(1983)Srebarna Nature Reserve (1983)
Prominent Bulgarians
Hristo Stoichkov
DimitarBerbatov
Stefka Kostadinova
Veselin Topalov
John Atanasov
Boris Hristov
Hristo Yavashev
Bulgarian cuisine *dishes * goodies
yogurt
banitsa
rakiya
shopska salad
tarator
lukanka
herbs and spices
lyutenitsa
turshiya
space food
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