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The history of Bulgaria during World War II encompasses an initial period of neutrality until 1 March 1941, a period of alliance with the Axis Powers until 8 September 1944, and a period of alignment with the Allies in the final year of the war. Bulgarian military forces occupied with German consent parts of the Kingdoms of Greece and ...
e. The themata of the Byzantine Empire, at the death of Basil II in 1025. The Theme of Bulgaria ( Greek: Θέμα Βουλγαρίας, romanized : Thema Boulgarias) was a province of the Byzantine Empire established by Emperor Basil II after the conquest of Bulgaria in 1018. [1] Its capital was Scupi (or Skoupoi) and it was governed by a ...
Bulgarian. The official language of Bulgaria is Bulgarian, [1] which is spoken natively by 85% of the country's population. Other major languages are Russian, Turkish (9.1%), and Romani (4.2%) [2] (the two main varieties being Balkan Romani and Vlax Romani ). There are smaller numbers of speakers of Armenian, Aromanian, Romanian, Crimean Tatar ...
Bulgaria. Palestine. Bulgaria–Palestine relations are the bilateral relations between Bulgaria and Palestine. Diplomatic relations were established in February 1973. [1] Both countries are members of the Union for the Mediterranean. Bulgaria recognized the Palestinian Declaration of Independence issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization ...
Lom ( Bulgarian: Лом [ˈɫɔm]) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Montana Province, situated on the right bank of the Danube, close to the estuary of the Lom River. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous Lom Municipality. The town is 162 km (101 mi) north of Sofia, 56 km (35 mi) southeast of Vidin, 50 km (31 mi) north of ...
History of Bulgaria. Dark Ages c. 6th–7th cent. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the 1878 Treaty of Berlin set up an autonomous state, the Principality of Bulgaria, within the Ottoman Empire. Although remaining under Ottoman sovereignty, it functioned independently, taking Alexander of Battenberg as its first prince in 1879.
Telephone numbers in Bulgaria. Telephone numbers in Bulgaria are under a full number dialing plan, meaning that the full national number must be dialed for all calls, while it retains the trunk code, '0', for all national dialling. Area codes are prefixed with a trunk code of 0 only when dialled domestically.
