Twenty thousand Bulgarian peasants were also included in the army; their main tasks were to clear the way for the rest of the army by building bridges over waters and removing snow from the roads, and to drive supply wagons.
According the Austrian Johann Georg von Hahn in 1861 Rosen (or Rastna at the time) was inhabited by Bulgarians.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria, many Anatolian Bulgarians returned to their native land, with some settling in Yagnilo and Dobroplodno, Varna Province, Svirachi, Oreshino, Byalopolyane, Ivaylovgrad in Haskovo Province exchanging their property with that of Turks from Bulgaria.
Apostol Petkov (May 6, 1869, Boymitsa, today in Paionia, Greece - August 2, 1911, Giannitsa, today Greece) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia.
Second Battle of Çatalca, fought on 3 February – 30 May 1913 between the Bulgarians and Ottomans
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First Battle of Çatalca, fought on 17–18 November 1912 between the Bulgarians and Ottomans
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.
The offensive began on 17 August 1916 with the Bulgarians taking Lerin and Banitsa.
By the evening the Bulgarians had retired along the entire line in the direction of Banitsa and grouped around the divisional reserve (12th Infantry Regiment).
Sometimes perceived as a stereotype of the uneducated, profit-driven Bulgarian and indeed the average Balkan person, he is often seen merely as a social stereotype, a member of the Principality of Bulgaria's newly formed lower middle-class.
When the war started and Bulgarian occupiers went to Veles, Blagoj was chosen as a member for the local committee of KPJ in Veles and secretary of the local committee of SKOJ.
As a result of the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars and the 1914-1918 First World War, many Bulgarians fled from the territories of present-day Greece, Republic of Macedonia and Turkey to what is now Bulgaria.
To protect their northern borders, the Bulgarians built several enormous ditches which ran throughout the whole length of the border from the Timok river to the Black Sea.
The process of conversion has affected mostly Muslim Bulgarians living among or next to ethnic Turks, i.e. the regions of Nedelino, Kirkovo, Zlatograd and Krumovgrad.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, the German Empire continued to be a centre of higher education for Bulgarians, and hundreds of Bulgarian students were sent to Germany on state scholarships by the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia (pre-1885).
An analysis of molecular variance based on Y-chromosomal STRs showed that Slavs can be divided into two groups: one encompassing West Slavs, East Slavs, Slovenes, and western Croats, and the other encompassing Bulgarians, Macedonian Slavs, Serbs, Bosniaks, and northern Croats (the latter five populations are South Slavic speakers).
It features, in its Latin name, in the eulogy of the Serbian soldiers who died for the liberation of Southern Serbia (now the Republic of Macedonia) from Bulgarians and Austro-Hungarians at the end of World War I, on whose graves in the mountains of Kajmakčalan they grow, written by Stevan Jakovljević, writer and botanist, rector of the Belgrade University in 1945-50.
Ivan Yanakov (Иван Янъков) is a Bulgarian pianist based in London and founder of the London Chamber Players.
Du Pont's will bequeathed 80% of his estate to the Bulgarian wrestler Valentin Yordanov, an Olympic champion, and his relatives.
Welcomed by the Rumanians, they sailed up the Danube where they attempted to keep the Rumanians and Bulgarians apart.
According to Veselin Traykov's study of Bulgarian emigration to North America, there was Roman Catholic Banat Bulgarian settlement in Lone Wolf, established mainly through immigration from Romania in the 1920s and 1930s, with the Banat Bulgarians engaging primarily in farming.
When the Turks sued for peace, and concluded an armistice on the 3rd of December 1912 with the Serbians and Bulgarians, the Powers decided to arrange a peace conference in London, known as the St. James Conference, on the 12th of December that year (1912), and invited the belligerents to participate.
It was established in 1921-1922 in Zagreb by students from Vardar Macedonia, it soon gained influence amongst Macedonian communities in Belgrade, Vienna, Graz, Prague, Ljubljana and other places where there Macedonian students.
There are many other smaller percentages of several ethnic groups, such as Arab, French, Scottish, Greek, Russian, and Bulgarian, among others.
Mirche Atsev, or Mirče Acev, nicknamed Orovchanets, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia, a leader of an Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) revolutionary band.
The Bulgarians and German casualties totaled around 61,000 men and even though Monastir had to be abandoned the new positions a few kilometers to the north provided excellent conditions for defense and assured the dominance of the Bulgarian artillery over the town.
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Around that time, when it became clear that the Allies were pulling troops from the eastern flank and were concentrating them against Monastir the commander of the Bulgarian Second Army general Todorov ordered the 7th Rila Division to take positions for an attack over the Struma river, in order to assist the hard pressed Bulgarians and Germans west of the Vardar.
It became part of the Principality of Bulgaria and many Turks fled to be replaced with Bulgarians from the ethnic Bulgarian lands that were left outside the country's borders of the time.
Before the formation of the party, socialist parties or groupings only existed among the Ottoman Empire's minorities, the Selanik predominantly Jewish Socialist Workers' Federation and Bulgarian left-wing party called People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section), as well as to some Bulgarian narrow socialists, who worked there.
Bulgarian railroad workers named the town after the city of Pleven in Bulgaria.
The playoff result was 2–1 (0–0 in the first leg in Porto and 2–1 in Pleven) for the Bulgarians.
On the other hand, other historians consider the towers very similar to ones found in Tsepina, Shumen, Perperikon, Vidin, consequently attributing it Bulgarians, who are also known to have controlled the region at certain times during the probable period of construction.
Other villages in Transylvania that used to be inhabited by various waves of Bulgarians were Cergău Mare, Bungard, Sibiu, Vințu de Jos, Deva, Rusciori, Sibiu, Râşnov.
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As a name, it has been preserved in the names of towns once colonized by Bulgarians, in toponyms (Dealu Schiaului near Rășinari), hydronyms (Schiau River, tributary to the Argeş River), surnames (Schiau, Şchiau).
According to Serbian authors, after the Treaty of San Stefano, the populations of the counties of Kumanovo, Skopje, Kriva Palanka, Kratovo, Kyustendil, Kočani, Strumica, Probištip, Veles, Debar, Kičevo and Prilep sent deputations and appeals to Prince Milan of Serbia, imploring him to not abandon Macedonia to the Bulgarians and to assign the region to Serbia.
The Bulgarians began retreating, allowing Serb forces to take over region around the village of Aldomirovtsi.
To train officers, capable young Bulgarians were detached both in Russian military schools and in the newly created Military school in Sofia.
The other dynastic clans of the Bulgarians were the Dulo clan of Attila, and Ermi clan of Kubrat (Kurbat) maternal uncle Organa, the Gostun (custodian) of the Nominalia.
Vela Peeva was born on March 16, 1922 to ethnic Bulgarian parents Peyo and Katerina in Kamenitsa, a part of present day Velingrad.
The first evidence of Vinga's existence as a small village dates back to 1231 A.D. After Vinga was destroyed by Turks during the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, Vinga was repopulated in the year 1741 with 125 families of ethnic Bulgarians from Chiprovtsi, joined later by Romanians from the surrounding area.