Bulgaria is located in Southeast Europe, in the northeast part of the Balkan Peninsula.The official time in Bulgaria is Eastern European Time, which is two hours ahead of Greenwich Time.A series of major European transport corridors pass through Bulgaria.Bulgaria borders to the north with Romania, to the east with the Black Sea, to the south with Turkey and Greece, and to the west with Macedonia and Serbia.With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country.  

Motto : Unity makes strength

National anthem of BulgariaMila Rodino

Gorda Stara planina,do ney Dunava siney,slantse Trakiya ogryava,nad Pirina plameney.Refrain: (twice)Mila Rodino,ti si zemen ray,tvoyta hubost, tvoyta prelest, ah, te nyamat kray.

Dear Motherland

Proud Balkan Mountains,next to it the Danube sparkles,the sun shines over Thrace,and blazes over Pirin.

Refrain: (twice)Dear Motherland,you are heaven on earth,your beauty, your loveliness,ah, they are boundless.

Population - 7,364,570

Bulgarian Official Holidays1 January – New Year’s Day3 March – National Holiday /Bulgaria’s Liberation from the Ottoman Empire/1 May – Labour and International Worker’s Solidarity Day6 May – Gergyovden (St. George’s Day), and the Bulgarian Army’s Day24 May - Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavic Script Day6 September - Unification Day22 September – Independence Day1 November – Day of the Bulgarian Enlighteners (Holiday for all educational institutions)24 December - Christmas Eve25, 26 December - Christmas DaysEaster Holidays– 4 days /Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday and Monday/ according to the Orthodox calendar of the year 

Bulgaria - land of history, culture and traditions...

Mummers

Nestinarstvo

Survaki

Martenitsi

Round loaf ( Pogacha) Welcome with bread and salt

Bulgarian folklore

Valya Mladenova Balkanskais a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin ", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It is expected that her voice will be played in space for at least 60,000 years more.

Gifts for the godfathers

Rychenica

Trifon Zarezan

Clever Peter Bai Ganyo Krali Marko

The three brothers and the golden apple The Span one elbow beard The Sandman

Capital(and largest city)- Sofia

Official language : BulgarianOfficial script : Cyrillic

The lev ( plural:  leva,levove) is the currency of Bulgaria. It is divided in 100 stotinki (singular: stotinka). In archaic Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language became lav.

History of Bulgaria

Thracians

Orpheus

Spartacus

The Valley of Roses and Thracian Kings

First Bulgarian Empire

Khan Asparuh Khan Tervel

Khan Krum

Tsar Boris I

Tsar Simeon Veliki

St. Ivan Rilski

Madara Rider

Second Bulgarian Empire

Tsar Kaloyan Tsar Ivan Asen II Tsar Ivan Alexander

Asenova krepost

Tsarevets

Kaliakra

Freedom Fighters

Against the Ottoman Empire

Third Bulgarian state

The communist period

Democracy - 1989Bulgaria became a member of NATO in 2004 and of the European Union in 2007.

Bulgarian UNESCO SitesCulturalAncient City of Nessebar(1983)Boyana Church(1979)Madara Rider (1979)Rila Monastery1983)Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo (1979)Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak1979)Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari(1985)NaturalPirin National Park(1983)Srebarna Nature Reserve (1983)

Prominent Bulgarians

Hristo Stoichkov

DimitarBerbatov

Stefka Kostadinova

Veselin Topalov

John Atanasov

Boris Hristov

Hristo Yavashev

Bulgarian cuisine *dishes * goodies

yogurt

banitsa

rakiya

shopska salad

tarator

lukanka

herbs and spices

lyutenitsa

turshiya

space food

Easy to find !