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 tenth largest within the European Union and the sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Plovdiv, Varna, and Burgas.

Since adopting a democratic constitution in 1991, Bulgaria has been a parliamentary republic composed of 28 provinces, with a high degree of political, administrative, and economic centralisation. Its high-income economy is part of the European Single Market and is largely based on services, followed by manufacturing, mining, and agriculture. Bulgaria has been influenced by its role as a transit country for natural gas and oil pipelines, as well as its strategic location on the Black Sea. Its foreign relations have been shaped by its geographical location and its modern membership; Bulgaria is a member state of the European Union, in which it is a member of the Schengen Area and the eurozone, and also of NATO, as well as various regional suborganizations such as the Bucharest Nine. (Full article...)

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Shumen Plateau forest near Shumen

The Shumen Plateau Nature Park (Bulgarian: Природен парк Шуменско плато) is located in the Shumen Plateau of the northern province of Shumen of Bulgaria, the highest plateau of the Danubian Plain. The Park encloses the Bukaka Reserve Forest, which is known for indigenous Fagus sylvatica (common beech) moesiaca (the Balkan beech) forest. This Park was declared a National Park in 1980 and a Nature Park in 2003 to conserve its ecosystems and floral and faunal biodiversity, and to preserve its tableland landscape together with many tourist sites such as the Shumen fortress, the Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria, cave monasteries, and surface and underground karst caves. The park has the first thematic educational trail in the Karst Nature Park, constructed as part of a project titled "Natural Park of Shumen Plateau" with funds provided by the EU Cohesion Fund and the Republic of Bulgaria; the trail is integral to the Operational Program "Environment 2007–2013". (Full article...)

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Did you know (auto-generated)

... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
... that Will Wood conducted a Bulgarian choir via Zoom for "White Noise"?
... that Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria?
... that basketball player Charel Allen was a five-time Bulgarian Cup champion despite knowing only a few words of Bulgarian?
... that Boyan the Mage, the son of a Bulgarian emperor, was claimed to shapeshift into wolf form?
... that Ferdinand I of Bulgaria once described historian Dimitar Agura as having "the eyes, gaze and head of a cat"?

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

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Shipka Pass is a scenic mountain pass through Stara Planina in Bulgaria. The maximum altitude of the pass is 1,150 m (3,820 ft). During the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878, Shipka Pass was the scene of a series of conflicts collectively named the Battle of Shipka Pass.

More did You Know?

...that Perperikon (ruins pictured), an ancient Thracian city, is the largest megalith ensemble in the Balkans?

...that an ore-miner settlement existed on the present location of Chiprovtsi since Thracian times, and was Kiprovets by the Slavs who inhabited it?

...that during the period of Communist rule, Dobrich was renamed Tolbukhin, but was renamed back to Dobrich by presidential decree in 1990?

...that Vardim Island, the third largest Bulgarian Danubian island, is a protected wetland and bird nesting area of national importance?

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