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unusual facts about Bulgarian Army



Alexander Fok

Fok retired from service, but later participated in the Balkan War of 1912-1913 as a volunteer in the Bulgarian Army.

Battle of Kirk Kilisse

After the victory, the French minister of war Alexandre Millerand stated that the Bulgarian Army was the best in Europe and that he would prefer 100,000 Bulgarians for allies than any other European army.

Patalenitsa

The village has its own village hall, the present building of which dates to 1970, a cultural centre (chitalishte) established in 1909, and a monument to the locals who perished as Bulgarian Army soldiers in the Balkan Wars and World War I.


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Battle of Kleidion

Skylitzes records that Basil completely routed the Bulgarian army and took 15,000 prisoners (14,000 according to Kekaumenos).

Battle of the Gates of Trajan

After the unsuccessful siege of Sofia he retreated to Thrace, but was surrounded by the Bulgarian army under the command of Samuil in the Sredna Gora mountains.

Medieval Bulgarian army

After several setbacks under Boril I (1207–1218), Ivan Asen II decisively defeated the Despotate of Epirus in the battle of Klokotnitsa, in which the much smaller Bulgarian army outmaneuvered its enemy.

Ramonda nathaliae

The flower is well known on the Nidze mountain near Bitola in Macedonia, where at Kajmakchalan peak, in the World War I battle of Kajmakchalan, the Serbian Army suffered a loss of nearly 5,000 soldiers before they were victorious against the Bulgarian Army.

Stefan Nerezov

These successful military operations couldn't prevent the Romanian Army from threatening the rear of the Bulgarian Army and reaching the vicinity of capital Sofia which forced the Bulgarian capitulation.

Stefan Toshev

During the First Balkan War (1912–1913) Stefan Toshev and his division took part in the offensive of the Bulgarian Army in the Thracian theatre of operation.

Svetoslav Vitkov

In 1991, he joined the then-fledgling punk rock band Hipodil to replace its previous singer, Miroslav Tellalov, who left the band to serve in the Bulgarian army.