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. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna.

Bulgaria has a high-income economy. Its market economy is part of the European Single Market and is largely based on services, followed by industry—especially machine building and mining—and agriculture. (Full article...)

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Bulgaria following Constantinople Conference 1877

The Bulgarian Crisis (Българска криза, Balgarska kriza) refers to a series of events in the Balkans between 1885 and 1888 that affected the balance of power between the Great Powers and the conflict between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire. It was one of several episodes in the continuing Balkan Crisis as vassal states struggled for independence from the Ottoman Empire but achieved a mosaic of nascent nation-states (Balkanisation). They featured unstable alliances that frequently led to war and eventually to the First World War. (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 Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria?

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

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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, in opposition to the orthodox architectural canon, a giant undulating apse occupies the entire east façade of the Church of the Holy Trinity (pictured) in Svishtov?

...that after an accident in his teens, Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov had difficulty writing and speaking?

...that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?

...that architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?

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