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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks. Northern Bulgaria attained autonomy in 1878 and all of Bulgaria became independent in 1908. Having fought on the losing side in both World Wars, Bulgaria fell within the Soviet sphere of influence and became a People's Republic in 1946. Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime. Today, reforms and democratization keep Bulgaria on a path toward eventual integration into the EU. The country joined NATO in 2004. To be updated

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By Great Dane
April 13th 2007

East and West - Bulgaria and Mother England

Europe » Bulgaria » West » Sofia

Sofia

My exit from Greece took longer than expected. After a 4am rise to make my plane out of Crete, my flight was cancelled due to bad weather. A bit of fog that cleared in an hour. And it didn't seem to matter to my airline that all the other airlines were still taking off. Chaos followed as everyone rushed to the ticketing desk to try and get the next flight out of there. Human nature at it's worst. My only option was to fly out the next morning. So I headed back into Hania and returned the next morning. The [View Full Entry]

By Svartehavet rundt
April 12th 2007

Do vishdane, Bulgaria!

Europe » Bulgaria

Syklist hviler
...med kumøkk under skoa.

Etter et par dager pÃ¥ gamle trakter i Trakia (Plovdiv ser ut til Ã¥ vÃ¦re en by vi aldri unngÃ¥r Ã¥ besÃ¸ke nÃ¥r vi er i Bulgaria), var det pÃ¥ hÃ¸y tid Ã¥ komme oss tilbake i sykkelsetet. 10. april tok vi toget tilbake til Jambol og innlosjerte oss i byens obligatoriske tolvetasjers hotell. Siden vi nÃ¥ bare hadde tida og veien pÃ¥ Ã¥ komme oss til Odessa innen 21. april, var det duket for en drÃ¸y uke med relativt lange sykkeldager og sporadisk oppdatering av denne bloggen. Jambol ligger ca 25 mil fra grensa mot Romania, og vi tilbakela [View Full Entry]

By Bystruska
April 11th 2007

Svita na lepsie casy

Europe » Bulgaria » North » Veliko Tarnovo

Svita na lepsie casy

Svita na lepsie casy Europe » Bulgaria » Veliko Tarnovo By Bystruska April 11th 2007Takze, zopar optimistickych pohladov na Pleven :-). [View Full Entry]

By Bystruska
April 11th 2007

Next Days...

Europe » Bulgaria » North » Veliko Tarnovo

Tolko krat spominany TOP hotel Plevenu

S odstupom par dni musim uznat, ze napriek akokolvek 'jedinecnym' zazitkom, som si uz stihla vybudovat k Plevenu isty citovy vztah. No vazne :-). Myslim, ze k tomu prispel hlavne: - Risov prichod (od ktoreho vlastne vsetok cas travim v praci a tak moznosti zazit dalsie BG prekvapenia sa minimalizovali) - Doniesla som si svoje vlastne uteraky, zehlicku a prestala som chodit na hotelove ranajky - takze som minimalizovala vsekty potencialne problematicke oblasti. No a co noveho? Yo, este pred odchodom na velku noc som mala unikatne prekvapko v hoteli. Tesila som sa na nenaroc [View Full Entry]

By Svartehavet rundt
April 10th 2007

Bulgarsk påske

Europe » Bulgaria » South » Plovdiv

Fresker i inngangen til klosteret utenfor Katunitsa

Her følger en kort oppsummering av den bulgarske påsken 2007 slik norske tungvint-turister opplevde den: Skjærtorsdag og langfredag ble, som seg hør og bør, tilbragt hvilende, nærmere bestemt i svartehavsbyen Burgas i Bulgaria. En forholdsvis stor mengde svett arbeidsantrekk (=sykkeltøy) ble vasket og til og med de svette syklistene fikk skrubbet seg til påske. Langfredag ble også laugardag for syklene. Kvine satte personlig rekord med å bruke nesten to timer på å rengjøre kjedet sitt... Påskeaften ble brukt til aktivt å unngå å diskutere Arne Paasche-Aasen. Derimot kastet [View Full Entry]

By Bystruska
April 4th 2007

5 WEEKS IN PLEVEN_Day 1+2

Europe » Bulgaria » North » Veliko Tarnovo

Pleven at night

Zdrasti, zopar postrehov z Plevenu (BG), na ktore sa casom budem pozerat hadam s usmevom (vy mozno uz aj teraz): Day 1: Ze uz prvy den je zjavne, ze Pleven je unikatne miesto!? - ze kde su taxiky este lacnejsie ako v Sofii? - ze kde ta na izbe 4* hotela privita vo dverach letiaca mola? - ze v ktorom hoteli nenastukas ine ako bulharske kanaly v TV a tak prepadnes manii bulharskej superstaaar? - ze v ktorom meste sa opijes s klientom na pive hned prvy vecer? ......no predsa v PLEVENE :-) Day 2: Zijem :)! A nachadzam sa [View Full Entry]

By Bystruska
April 4th 2007

Day 3

Europe » Bulgaria » North » Veliko Tarnovo

Riso, Kedze situacia je taka, ze sa Ti sem mozno az tak nechce, necham opat hovorit za seba moje dnesne zazitky: - potom co som mala na izbe otvorene celu noc okno - podarilo sa mi zbavit sa puchu na izbe! ! - Ak si budes davat veci do skrine (co asi hej, lebo ine priestory na skladovanie tam moc nie su), nechaj si vzdy apson jedny dvierka skrine otvorene - nech do nej prudi vzduch ...inak budes vychutnavat vonu X desatrocnej skrine s kazdou koselou :) - Zehlicka - to bola moja morning story ! Pozitivom je, ze ju zvladli [View Full Entry]

By TheKeiths
March 26th 2007

Bulgaria or bust!

Europe » Bulgaria » West » Sofia

Aleksander Nevski Church (1912)
Named after a Swedish-born Russian warrior in honour of the Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, Finnish, and Romanian soldiers who died (200,000 total) liberating Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empir... [more]

Bulgaria or bust! Europe » Bulgaria » Sophia By TheKeiths March 26th 2007 Alana and Bryan Keith[url='/Videos/2978.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2978.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Downtown Bulgaria[url='/Videos/2982.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2982.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Changing of the Gu [View Full Entry]

By Emy
March 20th 2007

my first police station

Europe » Bulgaria » West » Sofia

Sleeper cabin
The only photo i could get was from above, i tried every corner (literally putting the camera not me right in the corner) and only in this photo can you just make out all three beds

i just spent 3 hours in a bulgarian police station - which is kinda funny because it happened 10 hours after i left my aussie chaperones/accent mockers... (yeah yeah lets hear it, at least i have a sense of direction) i arrived at 6.30am on a sleeper train, first things first went to change some money at the currency exchange office in the train station... and got ripped off by about a third, despite the big words printed on the office 'no commission', and the fact that it was in a train station, which you'd think would be the official [View Full Entry]

By neil lockwood
March 12th 2007

Bulgaria.

Europe » Bulgaria » West » Sofia

Sofia street scene.

Thursday March 8. Last night I accessed my e-mails. I had e-mails from Alison, Peter and Tony. I replied and Peter replied again almost immediately. It is still amazing for me this internet. As so usual it is difficult to get out of these cities on a bike with the roads built for cars and of motorway standard. At the start of the E80 I asked a police officer for route 8 which runs next to the motorway but he insisted that it was better to use the hard shoulder of the motorway so with some trepidation I did. Not surprisingly [View Full Entry]

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