Questions tagged [bulgaria]
Bulgarian history is full of interesting events, including kingdoms of Thracians and Macedonians, Bulgarian medieval empires, rules of Ottomans and fights for liberation. Bulgaria was an important place for Slavic culture development (with Cyrillic alphabet and Old Church Slavonic language). It's also one of key countries in 20th century Balkan Wars and communist times in Eastern Europe. Check the full tag wiki for examples of topics connected to Bulgaria.
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Was there a separate vote on the Bulgarian demand for Western Thrace at the Paris Conference of 1946?
Although Bulgaria had withdrawn their troops from Greece in order to get an armistice in Oct 1944, Bulgaria reiterated their demand for Western Thrace (that its troops had vacated in '44) at the Paris ...
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What is the origin of the name of Kondofrej, Bulgaria?
There is a small village in Western Bulgaria, not very far from the capital Sofia called Кондофрей roughly transliterated as Kondofrey. It is an otherwise completely unremarkable village except that ...
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Is Bulgaria the only country in modern history to have gained territory after being on the losing side of a war?
According to the sources I could find, Bulgaria was given a piece of land called 'Southern Dobruja' at the end of WW2 even though they officially were part of the Axis powers from 1941 up until 1944, ...
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Was Zhivkov under house arrest partly for inciting racial hatred?
So I was randomly reading about Tohor Zhivkov. The Guardian states:
Zhivkov, who has since died, was tried and sentenced to house
imprisonment, partly for inciting racial hatred in a 1980s campaign ...
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Can you identify this (possibly Bulgarian) uniform?
can someone identify the country the uniform is from?
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Must have been born before 1880. First served in the Austro-Hungarian army, perhaps as an officer servant, possibly to a man who later ...
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Is there convincing evidence that the language of Bulgars (proto-Bulgarians) was not Turkic, but Indo-European?
Wikipedia says that "Bulgar (also Bulghar, Bolgar, Bolghar) is an extinct Oghur Turkic language which was spoken by the Bulgars. "
I was not aware of a different hypothesis on this until I ...
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Where do Bulgarians originate from?
Bulgaria was formed 1339 years ago. (Then broke up a couple of times.)
In school (late '90s) we were told
In 681 Slavic tribes were occupying the northern border of the Western Roman Empire. Some ...
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What were the relations between Romania and Bulgaria before WWI?
I am researching the Balkan's involvement in World War 1. Specifically, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania.
My question is:
What were Romanian - and Bulgarian relations in, and around the lead-up to the ...
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Why do some 17th and 18th century maps depict Ottoman sanjaks north of the Danube in Wallachia?
Note: I am editing this question constantly, because after posting it I have realized that there are more maps involving the same description, beside Homann's of 1720. (That doesn't mean that they are ...
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Why did Hitler treat the Slavs inconsistently?
I think it's pretty common knowledge that Hitler viewed the Slavs as subhuman or 'untermenschen'; however; his attitude towards the Slavs as regards the conquests in Eastern Europe seem somewhat ...
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Why were there "Tributary States" to the Ottoman Empire?
Here's something that's always puzzled me:
Whenever there was agitation for independence in the territories struggling for independence from the Ottoman Empire, a lot of times the places concerned ...
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Did Tito back the Bulgarian anti Communist Goryani resistance movement?
I was doing Wikipedia based (mixed quality source) research on the Goryani anti communist resistance movement in Bulgaria and found the following interesting statement:
“During the same period, some ...
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Would there have been racially mixed student bodies in schools in communist Bulgaria?
For example, would a high schooler in Bulgaria in the 80s had the occasion to go to school with Arabs or Africans... either exchange students, immigrants, children of diplomats, etc?
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Can it be claimed there were Bulgarians in the Balkans before 681 AD?
In 680 Bulgar tribes under the leadership of Asparukh moved south across the Danube and settled in the area between the lower Danube and the Balkan, establishing their capital at Pliska.
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Why did Béla III of Hungary seized the casket containing the relics of Saint Ivan of Rila?
Béla III was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1172 and 1196, however he had some difficulties getting recognition of his title.1.
Saint Ivan of Rila was born app. 876 a.c. He was a contemporary of ...
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Why was Bulgaria at war with both the Allied and the Axis at the end of WWII?
Bulgaria entered the WWII after signing the The Tripartite Pact (1 March 1941) which subsequently resulted in a long list1 of war declarations, unilaterally or mutually initiated, against Western ...
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What were the origins of the Bulgarian people? [closed]
In my home history lessons and books it is stated that Bulgarians and Hungarians were, in earlier times, pure Turks but they lost their Turkish features over time when they met Christendom.
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How was Ivaylo's Bulgarian peasant army able to repel the Mongols?
So this peasant in Bulgaria named Ivaylo says he's tired of all these Mongols and gets together a peasant army. How was this roughshod force able to repel the Mongols when so many others have failed?
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How were the Bulgarians regarded by the Nazis during World War II?
On one hand, the Bulgarians "signed on," with Nazi Germany when the latter was looking for Balkan allies against Russia. So did Hungary and Romania.
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Was Sofia really demolished by Bulgarians after 1878 and why?
I've heard many times that when Bulgaria became independent country in 1878, all the town was rebuilded from scratch. After the Russo-Turkish War, architects from Austria–Hungary were invited to shape ...
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