The 1989 Winter Universiade, the XIV Winter Universiade, took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The most famous athlete of the department was Nikos Angelopoulos, who achieved victory in the Balkan Track And Field Games in Sofia, in 1980, in the men's 200m with a record time of 20.71.
Veleva came to prominence in 2003 after her critically acclaimed debut at the Sofia National Opera in the role of Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
The Ariana Brewery is a defunct company, founded in 1884 in Sofia, Bulgaria under the name Sofia Brewery, changing to Ariana in 1996.
In the same year the club merges with Shipka (Sofia) to became Chavdar (Sofia) and eventually gave the basis to what is known today PFC CSKA Sofia - the most successful bulgarian football club in the history.
The administrative office of ASFA moved in 1998 to Sofia, Bulgaria.
Auditions were held in the three biggest cities in Bulgaria - Varna, Plovdiv and Sofia.
The town is accessible from the nearby city of Niš by the "Niš Express" buses that run from Niš to Pirot, Babušnica, Dimitrovgrad and Sofia.
She finished High School in 1942, and Slavic Philology at the University of Sofia in 1945.
Bogdan Dobranov was a Bulgarian Catholic priest and bishop Ordinariate of Sofia, Plovdiv diocese.
He is also a two-time Olympian, and a member of Levski Sofia Wrestling Club in Sofia, under his personal coach Peter Kasabov.
Being a member of the Supreme Party Council of BSP, he declared himself openly against the party in 2005 by not supporting BSP Mayor of Sofia candidate Tatyana Doncheva and instead favouring the independent Boyko Borisov.
Rules for governing good neighbourly relations were agreed between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia in the Joint Declaration of February 22, 1999 and reaffirmed by a joint memorandum signed on January 22, 2008 in Sofia.
Bylgarska banka za razvitie) (BDB) is a leading Bulgarian development and commercial bank with headquarters in Sofia.
The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee was founded on July 14, 1992 with a headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bulgartabac produces over 50 cigarette brands and sub-brands in its modernized factories in Sofia and Blagoevgrad using both domestic and imported tobacco.
The neighbourhoods located along Buxton Boulevard, listed in a north to south order, include Buxton, Pavlovo on the western side of the boulevard and Manastirski Livadi West on the eastern side.
The Chaira Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant (Chaira PSHPP) was built in Rila mountains, about 100 km southeast of capital city, Sofia.
According to the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, Champaud, a Swiss national living in Bulgaria and working as a gymnastics teacher at a Sofia high school, competed for that country at the first modern Olympics.
However, the team from Sofia had already been eliminated from the competition.
Pancu made his official debut for CSKA Sofia in the 3-2 win against Lokomotiv Plovdiv in Sofia, scoring his first goal for the club.
On 29 April 2009, he scored the only goal for his team in the 1:0 win against Levski Sofia in a 1/2 final of the Bulgarian Cup.
The DSB candidate for Mayor of Sofia, former finance minister and head of the Central Bank of Bulgaria Svetoslav Gavriyski arrived third in the first round with 18% of the votes.
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At the last legislative elections, 25 June 2005, DSB won 7.0% of the popular vote and 17 out of 240 seats, their support coming mainly from big cities (appr. 18% of voters in Sofia).
In 1988, he became editor of the journal World Architecture: Journal of the International Academy of Architecture of the IAA - International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In Sofia, they connected with the foreign representation body of the revolutionary organization IMARO and in Kyustendil they joined the Prilep revolutionary band of Konstantin Kondov.
Dimitar Milanov Stoyanov (18 October 1928 – 1995) was a Bulgarian international footballer who played as a striker for CSKA Sofia.
The decisive winner with 40% of the vote was Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (or GERB) party, led by Sofia mayor Boyko Borisov.
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The majority vote provided additional 31 seats corresponding to the constituencies of the 28 Provinces of Bulgaria with an additional 3 reserved for the most populated cities of Sofia and Plovdiv.
Originally, Proto Thema reported that the music video would be shot in the week following the Balkan Music Awards, held on 16 May 2010, where Rouvas won the award for Best Balkan Song from Greece for his previous single, and, according to the newspaper, had planned to perform the song at the ceremony in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Eternal Derby of Bulgarian Football or simply The Eternal Derby is the name of the local derby football match between the two most popular and successful football clubs in Sofia and Bulgaria - PFC Levski Sofia and PFC CSKA Sofia.
In 1968, during another period of football reform in Bulgaria, Septemvri is again merged into CSKA Sofia.
In 1949 he joined the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Sofia (now the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy) as an assistant where he stayed until moving to the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Sofia University in 1951, becoming full professor and head of department in 1960.
A school in Sofia is named for Karaslavov, and there is a bust of Karaslavov in the park behind Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia.
George Ivanov Jovcev (born May 9, 1950 in Sekirovo, a part of the town of Rakovski, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian Catholic priest and XXVI Bishop of Sofia - Plovdiv diocese.
The stone river is ‘descending’ from elevation 1900 m above sea level at the foothills of Golyam Rezen Peak to 1550 m off the track between Bistritsa village and Aleko site (1810 m), the most popular tourist centre on Vitosha Mountain accessible also from Sofia by gondola lift.
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.
Rhythmic gymnastics was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, between 17 and 19 August 1984, with 5 events (all of them women's).
Professor Lyudmil Vagalinski, of the National Institute with Museum of Archaeology in Sofia, noticed strange structures above it: tunnels and an arch.
The hymn was first published as a poem in Liri e Shqipërisë (in English: Freedom of Albania), an Albanian newspaper in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 21, 1912.
His paintings are owned by the National Art Gallery Sofia, many galleries and collections in Germany, United States, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden United Arab Emirates, UK, Austria, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Russia and Israel.
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.
Ivailo Petrov (19 January 1923, Bdintsi – 16 April 2005, Sofia) was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories.
Later, new lodges were founded in Varna (where the first Great lodge was located for a short time), Sofia, and some other cities, but in 1887 Vedar was forced to "put asleep" all lodges, because of the danger that their activity gets spoiled by political and interpersonal struggles, so common in the young and inexperienced country.
Ivaylo Ivanov is a product of CSKA Sofia's youth system, but joined the first team of CSKA following spells four seasons at amateur side Skala Bov.
The 5 Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian assistant, imprisoned in Libya for 8 years and that had been sentenced to death, in several trials based on allegations of having inoculated AIDS to children, are leaving Libya and returning to Sofia with Mrs Sarkozy who negotiated their liberation.
Katarina-Sofia was made up of the eastern half of Södermalm and Hammarby Sjöstad (Södra Hammarbyhamnen).
His academic career began in 1940 when he became Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sofia.
As Basil II's forces headed to seize Sredets, however, in 1004 they came up against Krakra's well-defended fortress of Pernik and the emperor was forced to return to Constantinople after sustaining heavy losses.
The Royal Motor Union of Liège, Belgium, organisers of the Liège-Rome-Liège Rally (and later the Liège-Sofia-Liège and other events), under its Commissaire-Général Maurice Garot, decided to create a rally specifically for these tiny cars, to test them thoroughly and find out which, if any, were really capable of transporting two people at a good speed over all types of road conditions.
Several squares and streets in Bulgarian towns and cities are named after Livingston Island, such as Livingston Island Square in Samuil and Kula, and Livingston Island Street in Gotse Delchev, Yambol, Petrich, Sofia, Lovech and Vidin.
The largest neighborhood of Sofia from which the highway starts is also named Lyulin, there is also a village of Lyulin around Pernik
The next defense came against Elena Akhmilovskaya in Sofia in 1986, and Chiburdanidze won the match by 8½–5½.
Margarita Popova graduated Bulgarian philology in University of Sofia in 1980, and later (1989) law in the same university.
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.
In 1991 he graduated with excellence from the Bulgarian National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia.
Kamburov had an excellent start to the season, netting 10 goals in just 6 games, including a spectacular hat-trick in Loko Sofia's away game against Levski Sofia on April 11, 2009 to help the team from the Nadezhda district to secure a historic 3:0 win.
In the Church of St. Paraskeva in Sofia, on March 15, 1998, he was ordained as bishop by Bulgarian Alternative Synod's head Patriarch Pimen and seven Metropolitans and Episcops of his synod.
During his youth, Kemal traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire, staying in Istanbul, Kars, and Sofia, and studied a number of subjects, including poetry.
The NGFA is situated in the very centre of Sofia, at St. Alexander Nevsky Square, behind the building of the National Assembly and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
Towards the end of the same year he campaigned from Mosynopolis to the region of Triaditza (Sofia), razing its environs and capturing the fort of Boyana.
Marinov has also done a great number of frescoes in churches in Plovdiv, Lovech, Biala Cherkva, Pernik and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.
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Between 1921 and 1940 he was a professor in the National Academy of Arts, Sofia where he served as Chancellor in the period 1935-1937.
In 1921, he established his own private school of wrestling in Sofia.
In 1959, after several months on the stage with the Ruse Theater, Binev entered the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia where he stayed until the end of his life.
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During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.
It includes 14 songs.The album was released in March 2008 and the promotion of it was on 17 March 2008 in "Plazza" Club in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 1908, he was unexpectedly recalled to Sofia and assigned commandant of the city for several months but was soon dispatched by the Bulgarian General Staff to receive further training in France.
Her most notable results were 3rd at the Acropolis Rally and 4ths at the Liège-Sofia-Liège and the RAC Rally.
They had several advantages over the Ottomans, allowing them to win the first encounters, such as forcing Kasim Pasha of Rumelia and his co-commander Turakhan Beg to abandon camp and flee to Sofia, Bulgaria to warn Murad of the invasion.
In the next campaign Akademik finished fourth and reached the final of Bulgarian Cup, losing 0-1 to CSKA Sofia.
They have legendary hatred for Levski Sofia and the fans of both teams have some big fights over the years some of which even invole rifles.
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Minyor's fans are also famous for their general hatred for Sofia.
) Suvchinsky emigrated from Russia in 1922 and lived in Berlin and Sofia, where he founded the Russian-Bulgarian Publishing House; then in Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life.
In Bulgaria, raions are subdivisions of three biggest cities: Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.
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.
The pieces are on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the National Museum of History, Sofia.
SC Kremikovtsi was a Bulgarian women's basketball club from the Kremikovtsi district in Sofia.
In the late autumn of 1186, the Byzantine army marched northwards through Sredets (Sofia).
In February 2012, Ivanov was close to signing with A PFG club Vidima Rakovski, but eventually put pen to paper on a contract with second division side Akademik Sofia.
The performers, aged 8–15, are selected from schools in Sofia.
This would be the first of several "websites" (set up by The Walt Disney Company) featured in the series that actually lead to the show, since the websites don't exist.
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...To where it all began, at MYW, where Betty, who just after settling into her new job and meeting another unattractive doppelgänger named Ruthie (played by Amanda's actress, Becki Newton), gets her first assignment from Sofia.
It is bordered on the west by the neighborhood of Bubanj, on the south by the neighborhood of Tutunović Podrum, on the east by the neighborhood of Palilula and on the north by the railroad connecting Niš with Sofia, Bulgaria.
Without difficulties the Hungaro-Serbian military pushed the Greeks out of the Valley of Morava, advanced all the way to Sofia, raiding Belgrade, Braničevo, Ravno, Niš and Sophia itself.
On 10 May 1879 he graduated the Military School in Sofia in its first year.
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General Stefan Toshev died on 27 November 1924 in Plovdiv and was buried in Sofia.
The most successful period in his career cames when he joins Lokomotiv Sofia.
He graduated from the National Sports Academy in Sofia, where he is currently head assistant professor of basic sports training.
It has had its present name and university status since 21 July 1995 and has 14 main faculties based in Sofia, Plovdiv and Sliven, as well as 3 additional ones with education only in foreign languages — German, English and French.
The story develops at the end of the seventies, the time of the vast expansion of the centralized system for heat- and warm water supply, in Sofia.
The objectives of TRACECA were underlined by the Baku Initiative of 2004, followed by a further ministerial conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2006.
He played for CSKA Sofia form the spring of 1966 to the 1976 having 231 match and 36 goals for the A PFG.
The core developers of V-Ray are Vladimir Koylazov and Peter Mitev of Chaos Software production studio established in 1997, based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
He began his military career in 1879 after graduating from the Military School in Sofia .
Some of the most prominent landmarks of the capital are situated along the boulevard, including the National Academy of Arts, SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia University, the State Agency of Youth and Sports, Battenberg Mausoleum, the Monument to Vasil Levski and others.
Hristov continued his fine form by scoring the second goal in Beroe's 2–0 win over Slavia Sofia in the first round of 2013–14 A PFG season on 22 July.
With the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the family moved to Moscow, and after fleeing through Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul, and Sofia, arrived in Berlin, where they joined the large Russian émigré population.
He succeeded Archbishop Roberto Meni on 14 October 1916 as Vicar Apostolic of Sofia and Plovdiv.
She graduated the 35th Russian Language School in Sofia and the University of Sofia, majoring in Russian Studies.
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Alexandar Protogerov (1867 Ohrid, Ottoman Empire, today Republic of Macedonia - 1928, Sofia) was a Bulgarian general, politician and revolutionary as well as a member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia, Thrace and Pomoravlje.
The base is situated in the eastern part of the Upper Thracian Lowland, in Yambol Oblast (Region), 10 km west of the city of Yambol and 30 km southeast of the city of Sliven, between the villages of Bezmer and Bolyarsko, and near the Sofia-Burgas railway.
In 2009 the canal was acquired by the owners of the airline company Bulgaria Air and moved to Sofia, from where he began building a national network.
Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).
In Bulgaria, Charles Champaud also played an important role in introducing football to the country and was the person to bring the sport to the capital city of Sofia in 1895 (the first football game in Bulgaria being in Varna in 1894, organized by another Swiss teacher, Georges de Regibus).
Nenov went on to become a professor of piano at the Sofia Conservatoire, where he taught piano to the Bulgarian pianists Genko Genov, Svetla Protich, Lazar Nikolov, Trifon Silyanovski, and many others.
The scenes when they test the car, while going to Old Pano's village, are filmed on the road from Sofia to the villages of Bistritsa and Zheleznitsa in Pancharevo suburban district.
His Army Group Headquarters was moved from Skopje to Jagodina, but the situation continued to deteriorate, and some Bulgarian soldiers even mutinied and headed towards Sofia.
Many reconstructions of the stadium started in 1969 after the unification of the sport and football clubs Levski Sofia and Spartak Sofia.
Afterwards, the official name was chosen to be in honour of Maria Luiza, Princess consort of Bulgaria, as one of four stations constructed under Maria Luiza Blvd. in Sofia, the other three being Central Railway Station, Lavov most, and Serdika II.
He was arrested by the Turkish military in a village near Lovech called Kakrina and later hanged in Sofia.
In 2003, it established the regional advertising network TBWA Adriatic, established in 2003, with agencies in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo and Sofia.
A senior diplomat, fluent in six foreign languages, Ambassador Peters has also served in Sofia, Bulgaria, as deputy chief of mission; in Moscow as economic counselor; and in Mandalay as principal officer.
In September 2000, Denkova / Staviski began dividing their time between Sofia and Odintsovo, near Moscow, Russia where they worked with coach Alexei Gorshkov and choreographer Sergei Petukhov.
It is the administrative centre of Mirkovo Municipality, which lies in the central eastern part of Sofia Province.
From 2006 to 2009 he was director of the municipal company "Ekoravnovesie" of Sofia Municipality.
MKB Unionbank (Bulgarian: МКБ Юнионбанк, Em Ka Be Yunionbank) is a major Bulgarian retail and commercial bank with headquarters in Sofia.
Left an orphan, Lazarov moved to the capital Sofia, where he worked as a draftsman at the Capital Direction of Public Buildings under Friedrich Grünanger, Aleksi Nachev, Mihail Hashnov and Karl Heinrich.
His mother was Sofia Gladkaya (1875—1965) was a singer in the Mariinsky Theatre and a teacher of Conservatoire de Paris.
The sword is preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Bulgaria in Sofia under inventory number 2044.
The first monument to be built in the capital of the newly liberated Principality of Bulgaria, it was unveiled on 29 June 1882 and is located on the road which Osman Nuri Paşa used to flee from Sofia to Pernik on 22 December 1877.
Shivachevo is located 260 km east of Sofia, 35 km west of the city of Sliven (pop. 147,000), and 140 km west of the port city of Bourgas and the Black Sea.
Aside from her native country, she has performed in Frankfurt, Essen, Sofia, Varna, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest, as well as at festivals in other European countries, Thailand, and the United States.
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).
When Steve broke away from his captors, Sofia chased him into an underground cavern where they discovered the bones of Artemis, the first Wonder Woman, as well as a scepter belonging to the goddess Athena.
Sofia och Anna (Sofia and Anna) were a Swedish duo composed of Sofia Jannok and Anna Kärrstedt, both from Gällivare, Sweden, who sang in Northern Sámi.
Much later, after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, all of Northern Bulgaria and the region of Sofia became the Principality of Bulgaria while most of the rest of Southern Bulgaria was part of Eastern Rumelia until the Bulgarian unification in 1885.
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.
TFS Tenerife South Airport (1978–present), also known as Reina Sofia Airport
It was used as the home venue for Levski Sofia's Champions League games, and is often used for important derbies between the big clubs from Sofia, instead of their own home stadiums.
In 1967 Atlantov won the first prize at the 3rd International Competition in Sofia and the fourth prize winner at the International competition in Montreal.
Burchett moved to Bulgaria in 1982 and died of cancer in Sofia the following year, aged 72.