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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 fionavicky
August 19th 2009

I say Barry, you say White Europe » Bulgaria » East » Burgas

Well, Burgas... There's not too much to report as most of our days followed a similar pattern - get up late, get lunch, go to beach, get dinner, go to festival, go to bed etc. However, we shall endeavour to elaborate as we can... On the first full day we actually decided to go and arm ourselves with some reading material. As usual, when you find an bookshop with English literature you are somewhat restricted to the Penguin/Wordsworth classics. So, between us we have two Thomas Hardy novels - Far from the Madding Crowd and Fair Blue Eyes... a good old [View Full Entry]

By Adrianm
August 18th 2009

Our builder, Area Bulgaria, destroyed our home Europe » Bulgaria » North » Veliko Tarnovo

Hi Everyone! First off let me say that Anne and I are well. We have moved into our new home, and found that our builder is not a builder, and the people he deployed to build our house were unskilled laborors (well, most of them - I think we had one master carpenter, but that's all that I can recognize. The builder has not provided any proof of any skilled workers). Every room has issues, and almost every installed component has been completed poorly. Anne and I will be performing recovery actions for at least the next year. Many of you [View Full Entry]

By fionavicky
August 17th 2009

Im in Sunny Beach, get me out of here... Europe » Bulgaria » East » Burgas

Finally, another blog update - it seemed the recent lack of entry rather concerned someone (Mother Bywaters) as to whether we are still alive - but I can safely say we are. The lack of updates is mostly due to the fact that for the past few days, we have been chilling on the beach and going to the festival at night, leaving very little time/energy to write anything. Plus, using internet that is about as fast as dial-up is mental torture. So, where we left off was in Bucharest - anticipating our ridiculously early start for the bus to the [View Full Entry]

By supergran
August 6th 2009

Onwards and upwards Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna

At least I think it should be upwards.Looking forward to family visit - not long now and have devised possible excursions to use time wisely.Travelling will have to be early am or later evening as in between is a nightmare with our weather. We are in the process of laying down plum Rakia for winter cold offsetting! Never fear there will be some for Belfast at Xmas and Cornwall in June!! Even we can't drink 50L of plum and of course grape to follow.Gillian and Peter got good weather with some nightime storms and we have had the odd one since [View Full Entry]

By AntoniaBulgaria09
August 1st 2009

Bruise, Sleeping, Trip home Europe » Bulgaria

Bruise I have a very nice bruise on my arm. I don't know how it happened, but perhaps it happened while I was digging in the hot sun with a shovel, rake and lying/sitting on giant rocks while banging my trowl against hard, packed in soil. I actually have a bruise on my leg too, but that one isn't as bad. These are scars of love! I love this work and this site was a lot more fun than the site up in Schoharie, NY last summer. I was finally in the Black Sea region and touching soil that the Ottomans [View Full Entry]

By KateSP
July 31st 2009

Bulgaria Europe » Bulgaria

Blog Entry: The doctor said sea sickness is like the chicken pox. Once you have it, you rarely get it again.... Dr. Milt, although quite intelligent, is seriously mistaken. There was a slight rock to the boat as we were sailing back down the Black Sea after Bulgaria. And the slightest bit of rocking means a nauseous morning for me. I had to book it out of my 8am to make it to the bathroom in time. Successful! None of my friends are this sensitive, and I don’t know of anyone else throwing up this much... I’m beginning to wonder what’s [View Full Entry]

By Little Pilavachi
July 31st 2009

Speeding through Sofia onto Macedonia Europe » Bulgaria » West » Sofia

Well I have finally started my travels, and first stop is Sofia, Bulgaria. A country I know little about, and whose language completely escapes me. I feel somewhat disabled by this and struggle not start speaking Spanish as my brain only knows two languages; English and Foreign. We arrived today at noon, Nikesh my travelling buddy who I met for the first time at Gatwick this morning, but had planned to travel to the IFMSA conference together via email. Luckily we get on! We were welcomed to Sofia with sunshine and blue skies, and given a glimpse into the Iron belt. [View Full Entry]

By AntoniaBulgaria09
July 30th 2009

Skeletons, Stray Cats and Bowling Europe » Bulgaria

Skeletons We have excavated three human burials at our site this week. 2 adults and 1 child. One of the adults was buried with a tile cover, suggesting that he/she was of importance. The other two graves were probably buried in wooden coffins, we found only the nails from the coffin. In the section I have been personally working in, we have come upon a similar layer to that of the section with the graves, so I am hopeful that we will uncover another grave in the next two days. Until we found the grave of the child, we thought that [View Full Entry]

By AntoniaBulgaria09
July 27th 2009

Relics and Bulgarian nicknames Europe » Bulgaria

I just came out of a lecture on Orthodox Christian Relics- the practice of placing bones of a Saint in a crypt under the altar in the church. Our site had such a crypt and three boxes for relics were recovered. Vassil is an expert on Christianity and gave a brilliant lecture today. I have been bombarding him with questions. I learned a great deal about the Orthodox Christian church during my stay here, they have interesting and mystical traditions that I find fascinating and I plan to do much more research and reading on the subject. The Bulgarians all have [View Full Entry]

By AntoniaBulgaria09
July 26th 2009

Rainy Sunday in Varna Europe » Bulgaria

Hello- Yesterday was wonderful (and the hottest day yet). I went on a trip to the stone forest, a mosaics museum and some holy pagan sites. We danced outside of a cave in Madara while a musician dressed in traditional folk attire played for us. I had so much fun dancing that I forgot how hot the sun was. It was so fiery hot at the stone forest, that I thought I saw my mother's face in a rock ! I yelled "Mommy, more water"!! I took lots of photos, but I have to upload them when I return to New [View Full Entry]

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