Country on the Black Sea, bordering Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. Currently still in political and economic reform after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, whose sphere of influence it was part of.

E2 GUIDE TO BULGARIA


• Bulgarian (The language)


Cities
• Ohrid
• Preslav
• Sofia (The capital)
• Varna
• Veliko Turnovo


Mountains
• Rhodope
• Vitosha


Rivers
• Struma (see also Strymon)


Literature
• Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov


Folklore
• Baba Yaga
• Balkan Ritual Groups


Bulgarian History
• Introduction
• The Thracians
• Roman Influence in Ancient Bulgaria
• The Bulgarians
• Pre-State Bulgarian Culture
• The Birth of Bulgaria
• Great Bulgaria
• Expansion of the Bulgarian State
• Consolidation of the Bulgarian State
• Bulgaria's Great Monarchy
• Christian Conversion of the Bulgarians
• Bulgaria - A Predominant Power in the European East
• Bulgaria's Struggle for Independence
• The Bulgarian Lands Under Byzantine Rule
• Restoration and Rise of the Bulgarian State
• Political Crisis
• Consolidation of the Medieval Bulgarian State
• The Ottoman Conquest of Bulgaria
• The Bulgarian People Under Ottoman Rule
• The Bulgarian Revival
• The Liberation of Bulgaria
• The Principality of Bulgaria
• Bulgaria in the Wars of National Unification
• Post-War Crisis
• Bulgaria Between Democracy and Fascism
• Bulgaria During World War II
• Ancient Civilizations in the Bulgarian Lands
• Medieval Bulgarian Culture
• Bulgarian Revival Culture
• Pre-War Bulgarian Culture



• The Name List of Bulgarian Khans


Rulers of Bulgaria
• Khan Kubrat (632-651)
• Khan Asparoukh (681-700)
• Khan Tervel (700-721)
• Khan Kardam (777-803)
• Khan Krum (803-814)
• Khan Omurtag (814-831)
• Khan Malamir (831-836)
• Khan Pressian (836-852)
• Boris I (852-889)
• Tsar Simeon the Great (893-923)
• Tsar Peter I (927-970)
• Tsar Samuil (997-1014)
• Tsar Peter II and Tsar Assen I (1185-1197)
• Tsar Kaloyan (1197-1207)
• Tsar Ivan Assen II (1218-1241)
• Tsar Ivailo (1278-1280)
• Tsar Todor Svetoslav (1300-1321)
• Tsar Mihail Shishman (1323-1330)
• Tsar Ivan Alexander (1331-1371)
• Tsar Ivan Shishman (1371-1395)
• Tsar Ivan Sratsimir (1356-1396)
• Prince Alexander I (1879-1886)
• Stefan Stambolov (1887-1894)
• Tsar Ferdinand (1887-1918)
• Alexander Stamboliyski (1919-1923)
• Tsar Boris III (1918-1943)
• Georgi Dimitrov (1946-1949)
• Vulko Chervenkov (1950-1956)
• Todor Zhivkov (1956-1989)
• Zhelyu Zhelev (1990-1996)


Spiritual Leaders of Bulgaria
• Saints Cyril and Methodius - The one was spirit, the other was action
• Saint Clement of Ohrid - The father of Cyrillic letters
• Chernorizets Hrabr - Oration of the letters: reaching out to the future
• Saint Ivan of Rila - Another elect of God
• The Priest Bogomil - The sources of doubt
• Presbyter Kozma - The royal way for the soul
• Patriarch Authimius - Sent to stand up for his people
• Paissiy of Chiliandari - We, too, are loved by God
• Sophroniy of Vratsa - The awakening of the personality
• Neophit Bozveli and Ilarion of Makariopol - The revival of the popular will
• The Miladinov Brothers - ...And liturgy in the mother tongue
• Vassil Aprilov - A rational idealist
• Dr. Petar Beron - The wings of new patriotism
• Ivan Bogorov - Racing against time
• Georgi Rakovski - His pride defied the slave mentality
• Petko Slaveykov - The voice of six million
• Lyuban Karavelov - Our freedom lies within ourselves
• Vassil Levski - The three pillars of the nation
• Hristo Botev - Truth is sacred
• Ivan Vazov - The end of the yoke
• Gotse Delchev - The last of the apostles
• Zachari Stoyanov - The vision of a Bulgaria that never came to be
• Aleko Konstantinov - Universal moral values
• Pencho Slaveykov - The knight of the moral ideal
• Exarch Iosef I - Diplomacy under the sign of the cross
• Stoyan Mihailovski and Anton Strashimirov - Trial of wrath and unforgiving love
• Dimitar Blagoev - The solitary prophet
• Geo Milev - The sublime criteria of spirit
• Assen Zlatarov - Cultivating the hearts
• Petar Dunov - Teaching "humanity"



• On The Massacre Of The Christians In Bulgaria by Oscar Wilde
• What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians
• How Candide Escaped from the Bulgarians and What Befell Him Afterward