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26 unusual facts about Bulgaria


194th Engineer Brigade

Active duty and reserve troops from the U.S. and Bulgarian Armed Forces helped renovate the dilapidated hospital, located in the picturesque city of Trun.

1951–52 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1951–52 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the first season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1969–70 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1969–70 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 18th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1970–71 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1970–71 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 19th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1995–96 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1995–96 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 44th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1996–97 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1996–97 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 45th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1998–99 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1998–99 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 47th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2002–03 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2002–03 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 51st season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2010–11 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2010–11 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 59th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2011–12 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2011–12 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 60th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2012–13 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2012–13 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 61st season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

Borovo Municipality, Bulgaria

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Borovo.

Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II

In the Tran, Rhodopes and Sredna Gora regions, the partisans were a constant threat to the government.

Cherno more

Cherno More is the Bulgarian name of the Black Sea (see: Bulgarian Black Sea Coast)

Graffiti in Russia

An example of this is the Russian Red Army soldiers on a monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, which has been turned into popular superheroes and cartoon characters (including Superman, Santa Claus, Ronald McDonald, and the Joker) by an anonymous graffiti artist.

Gramada Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Gramada.

Karakachanov

Karakachanov is a Bulgarian family name related to the Sarakatsani.

Kula Municipality, Bulgaria

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Kula.

Lozenets, Burgas Province

Lozenets was founded in 1924 by around 20 Bulgarian refugee families, originally from Eastern Thrace (mostly Peneka and Malak Samokov) who were initially put up in Poturnak (Velika), but moved to the seaside in search of better conditions.

Manol Lazarov

Manol Lazarov Sofiyanets (Bulgarian:Манол Лазаров Софиянец) born 1826 and died 1881, was a Bulgarian educationalist, poet and writer based in Sofia.

Newport Arch

It is one of many original Roman arches still open to traffic, other examples being two gates through the city walls of the Roman town of Diocletianopolis (now Hisarya, Bulgaria), as well as numerous examples in Turkey.

Nicholas Hartwig

Hartwig was a key figure in the formation of the system of alliances formed in 1912 between Serbia and Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro (the Balkan League).

Novi Pazar Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Novi Pazar.

Ohrid Literary School

After Clement was ordained bishop of Drembica (Velika) in 893, the position of head of the school was assumed by Naum of Preslav.

Sophronius of Vratsa

He served in the Karnobat parish and went to a monastery in Arbanasi in 1794, becoming Bishop of Vratsa under the name of Sophronius on 17 September.

Vasil Gyuzelev

Gyuzelev was born in the village of Rakovski (today part of Dimitrovgrad) in 1936.


1994–95 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1994–95 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 43rd season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

Alino, Sofia Province

Alino is a village in Samokov Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria.

Anelia

:* The previous president of Bulgaria, Georgi Parvanov is a fan of her music and has invited her to perform in many concerts.

Arbanasi

Arbanasi, Bulgaria, a historical settlement and touristic attraction in Bulgaria

Association of Special Fares Agents

The administrative office of ASFA moved in 1998 to Sofia, Bulgaria.

Balgarevo

Later in mid-19th century large families from Kotel, Elena and Yambol regions follow the 'emigration flow' from inner Bulgaria to Dobrudja and settled in the village.

Black-headed Bunting

In Bulgaria, the collapse of the drying cotton thistle (Onopordum acanthium) stems on which the birds build their nests has caused high mortality; this is thought to be an example of an ecological trap.

Borduria

Unknown in the times of Tintin were later strong leaders from the same area: Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria and Enver Hoxha of Albania.

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

As Bulgaria was part of the Ottoman Empire, Bulgarian émigrés founded the Bulgarian Literary Society on 26 September 1869, in Brăila in the Kingdom of Romania.

Bunovo, Kyustendil Province

Bunovo is a village in Kyustendil Municipality, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria.

Congress of Berlin

The Congress of Berlin returned territories to the Ottoman Empire that the previous treaty had given to the Principality of Bulgaria, most notably Macedonia, thus setting up a strong revanchist demand in Bulgaria that in 1912 led to the First Balkan War.

Dalga Luka

Dalga Luka is a village in Tran Municipality in western Bulgaria.

Dimitar Agura

With the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, Dimitar Agura arrived in the newly established Principality of Bulgaria and worked as a clerk at the Ministry of Interior (1879–1883).

Dristor metro station

Its name comes from Dristor street which used to be the road that led to Silistra (also called Dristor or Drâstor, now in Bulgaria), on which one of the exits is located.

Eastern Imperial Eagle

There are many Eastern Imperial Eagle nests in the Bulgaria/Turkey section of the European Green Belt (the uncultivated belt along the former Iron Curtain.)

Edward Castronova

It claims, for example, that Norrath has a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria, higher than that of China and India, and that a unit of EverQuest currency is worth more than the Yen or Lira.

Formica aquilonia

Formica aquilonia is a species of wood ant of the genus Formica which are widely distributed in Europe and Asia, occurring from Scandinavia in the north to Bulgaria and Italy in the south, and from the UK eastwards through France and Germany to Russia, while they are also found in the coastal areas of the Sea of Okhotsk in eastern Siberia.

Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

A number of auxiliary chapels were dedicated to the Forty, and there are several instances when an entire temple (church building) is dedicated to them: for example Xiropotamou Monastery on Mount Athos and the 13th-century Holy Forty Martyrs Church, in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

Gabriele Nissim

On 6 November 1998 the Sobranie (Sofia's Parliament) knighted him Sir of Madera, the highest cultural honor in Bulgaria, for discovering Dimitar Peshev, the saviour of the Bulgarian Jews.

Georgy Fotev

Georgy Fotev was born on 24 August 1941 in the village of Dimitrovche, Svilengrad Municipality, Bulgaria.1

House of Wettin

It was only in the 19th century that one of the many Ernestine branches, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, regained importance as the "stud of Europe", by ascending the thrones of Belgium (in 1831), Portugal (1853-1910), Bulgaria (1908–1946) and the United Kingdom (in 1901).

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

John Flournoy Montgomery

Montgomery was clearly expected to watch over the political intrigues not only in Budapest but, from his central location on the Danube, to monitor the goings-on in Hungary’s neighbors (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) and other countries in the region as well, including Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and Italy.

José Augusto Torres

Torres' last game was a 2–2 draw, again against Bulgaria for the 1974 World Cup qualifiers, on 13 October 1973 (at the age of 35).

Kalotina

Kalotina is known for the Kalotina-Gradinje border checkpoint, one of Bulgaria's busiest and best-known due to the proximity to Sofia.

Karaağaç railway station

The line was used by the Greek State Railways (OSE) until 1971 when the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) built a line from Pehlivanköy through the city of Edirne to the Bulgarian border, and OSE built a short cut-off between Marasia and Nea Vyssa to avoid Turkish territory near Edirne.

Karamesutlu

It lies on the highway that connects Babaeski to Kırklareli and further extends to Dereköy, the customs with Bulgaria.

Lake Rabisha

It is located in northwestern Bulgaria, between the villages of Rabisha and Tolovitsa in Belogradchik municipality, Vidin Province.

Louis-Emil Eyer

In 1894, Eyer and nine other Swiss pedagogues, including Georges de Regibus and Charles Champaud, were invited to Bulgaria by the Minister of Education Georgi Zhivkov to lay the foundations of sports education in the country.

Mad River

Erythropotamos, a river in Bulgaria and Greece known in Bulgarian as Luda reka ("Mad River")

Marin Drinov

Taking an active part in the organization of the newly liberated Bulgarian state, Marin Drinov is known as one of the authors of the Tarnovo Constitution, the person to have proposed Sofia instead of Tarnovo (favoured by Austrian diplomats) for the new Bulgarian capital, and the person to have introduced the standardized 32-letter edition of Cyrillic that was used in Bulgaria until the orthographic reform of 1945.

Mario Rizzi

Mario Rizzi (March 3, 1926 – April 13, 2012) was the Roman Catholic Italian titular archbishop of Bagnoregio and apostolic nuncio to Bulgaria 1991-1996.

Ochindol

The village contains a monument representing Ivan Vazov's character 'Grandfather Yotso', a symbol of liberation from the Ottoman Empire and the progress of independent Bulgaria.

Philippopolis

Plovdiv, Bulgaria (named after Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father)

Porky pine

They performed a lot of concerts around Bulgaria and its Black Sea Coast.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Richard Dunne

He played in all ten games helping Ireland finish second and qualify for a play-off whilst also scoring goals in both 1–1 draws with Bulgaria, as well as winning the man of the match award in the away game held in Sofia.

Saedinenie Snowfield

The feature was named after the Bulgarian town of Saedinenie (‘Reunification’), in association with the 120th anniversary of the Reunification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Rumelia in 1885.

Samel 90

Samel 90 is a Bulgarian manufacturer of electronics, situated in Samokov, Bulgaria.

Savatiano

In addition to Attica, the grape is also found in Euboea and the Bulgarian town of Pomorie which used to be a Greek colony known as Anchialos.

Senovo

Senovo, Bulgaria, a town in the in Vetovo Municipality in northeastern Bulgaria

Shabla Municipality

The area is best known with Cape Shabla - Bulgaria's easternmost point as well as the natural reserve of Durankulak Lake.

Slatina Peak

Named after the Bulgarian settlements of Slatina in Montana, Lovech, Plovdiv, Silistra and Sofia regions (the last one now part of the city of Sofia).

Stoyan Kolev

He made his debut for Plamen Markov's Bulgaria in a friendly against Spain on 20 November 2002, when he was a CSKA Sofia player, coming on as a second half substitute during 0–1 defeat at Los Cármenes in Granada.

The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming

Premiering at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma where it was nominated for the Grand Prix Focus, The Woman of Ahhs was an official selection at numerous film festivals around the world, including Cinefest, the Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria, the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France, where it was presented at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Mexico International Film Festival where Paquette received the Bronze Palm Award.

Zlatina Deliradeva

In 1972 Zlatina Deliradeva became Conductor-in-Chief of the Detska Kitka Choir of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and her artistic biography has been closely linked with this choir.