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unusual facts about Sofia, Bulgaria



1802 Vrancea earthquake

Earthquake caused fear in Warsaw (Poland), and in Bulgaria, the cities of Ruse, Varna and Vidin suffered some damage and panic amongst the population.

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.

2000–01 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2000–01 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 49th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2012 Qatar Airways Tournament of Champions

The 2012 edition was the first held in Sofia, having been relocated from Bali, where the tournament was held for the previous three years and called the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions.

4th Land Force Brigade

It is covering the territory of southern Serbia, from the border with the Republic of Macedonia in the south to the border with Bulgaria in the east and the administrative border with Kosovo in the west to the area around the city of Leskovac in the north.

Anelia

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

Bezmer Air Base

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.

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.

Bojidara Kouzmanova

She studied at the Ljubomir Pipkov Music High School in Sofia and at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Bulgaria at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Ceuta Heliport

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).

Chepelare

Chepelare is also popular for being the birthplace of biathlete Ekaterina Dafovska, Bulgaria's only Winter Olympics gold medal winner.

Dalga Luka

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

Deep-water soloing

Tyulenovo and Kamen Bryag are places for Deep Water Soloing in Bulgaria that recently gained popularity among the local climbing society and surrounding countries in Eastern Europe.

Dhimitër Beratti

Beratti was elected General Counsel of Albania in Sofia in 1924, returning to Albania in 1926 where he worked as a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dragalevska River

The river flows from the lower northern part of Torfeno Branishte Nature Reserve on Vitosha Mountain, and passes by Kominite area; at the northern foothills of Vitosha the river crosses the village of Dragalevtsi (now part of Sofia, from which the river takes its name), then join few other minor rivers to form Slatinska River, and flow into Perlovska River which in turn flows into Iskar River in the northeastern outskirst of Sofia.

Dwijen Mukhopadhyay

As a member of ‘Indian Cultural Delegation’, he toured Soviet Union and East European countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

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.

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.

Hristo G. Danov

As the war led to Bulgaria's liberation, Danov had his printing office moved from Vienna to Plovdiv (which in 1878 became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, which united with the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885).

Hristofor Zhefarovich

In his testament, he explicitly noted that his relatives were "of Bulgarian nationality" ("булгарской нации", bulgarskoy natsii) and from Dojran.

Ilinden Peak

The feature is "named after the settlement of Ilinden in Southwestern Bulgaria, in connection with the 1903 Bulgarian uprising of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie for the liberation of Macedonia and Odrin (Adrianople) Thrace".

Internet Society – Bulgaria

ISOC Bulgaria has been actively involved in the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI), headed by George Sadowsky, and has contributed to formation of governmental IT-policy in a number of countries, not only in Bulgaria.

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.

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).

Julia Boserup

In 2011, she competed as a qualifier in the U.S. Open, losing in the first qualifying round to Bulgaria's Elitsa Kostova, 6-3, 6-4.

Karakachanov

Karakachanov is a Bulgarian family name related to the Sarakatsani.

Karamesutlu

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

League of Prizren

The Albanians' fear that the lands they inhabited would be partitioned among Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece fueled the rise of resistance.

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.

Macedonia in the Middle Ages

Republic of Macedonia, a country composed of Bulgaria (theme) and the Slavic states in the Middle Ages

Mad River

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

Monument of Liberty, Ruse

The Monument of Liberty (Bulgarian: Паметник на свободата, Pametnik na svobodata) in Rousse, Bulgaria, was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Italian sculptor Arnoldo Zocchi.

Philippopolis

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

Pirinsko Pivo

Pirinsko is named after the nearby Pirin Mountains and is situated in Blagoevgrad, a city located 90 km south of the capital Sofia.

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.

Skobelev

Skobelev Park, a museum park in the vicinity of Pleven, Bulgaria

Sofia's Choice

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.

Stadion Kranjčevićeva

In 1947 Kranjčevićeva hosted their single international game in the SFR Yugoslavia period, a 2–1 Balkan Cup win against Bulgaria, with both Yugoslavia's goals scored by Prvoslav Mihajlović.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Stephen Malcolm

Malcolm died in a car accident, only hours after playing Bulgaria in a friendly international in Kingston.

Sub-Balkan valleys

There is great abundance of mineral waters, the most notable spas being Bankya, Sofia, Banya, Pavel Banya, Sliven Mineral Baths, Aitos.

Svilen Neykov

As the coach of Bulgaria's national rowing team, Neykov has qualified for World Championships, brought teams to a top three Rowing World Cup finish, earned a bronze medal from the 1999 World Rowing Championships and a 2000 Summer Olympics quota.

The Matrix Revolutions: Music from the Motion Picture

The track Navras of Juno Reactor was used by rhythmic gymnasts Simona Peycheva of Bulgaria and Penelope Blackmore of Australia in their respective ribbon routines at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

It was founded by Karapetkov, Stein, RDT Artistic Director Krustyo Krustev, and American dramaturg Benjamin Nadler, with the partnership of the RDT, the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, The HyperMedia Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art.

Valentin Bozhkov

Valentin Bozhkov (born May 2, 1958 in Samokov) is a Bulgarian ski jumper that competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Vasil Kutinchev

He began his military career in 1879 after graduating from the Military School in Sofia .

Victor Jackovich

As a career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, he held assignments in Kiev (1979–1980), where he helped to start the first U.S. government office in Ukraine; Bucharest (1980–1983); Nairobi (1983–1986); Moscow (1988–1990); and Sofia, Bulgaria (1991).

Vladimir Atlantov

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.

Wilfred Burchett

Burchett moved to Bulgaria in 1982 and died of cancer in Sofia the following year, aged 72.


see also

1989 Winter Universiade

The 1989 Winter Universiade, the XIV Winter Universiade, took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2006 World Sambo Championships

The 2006 World Sambo Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 3 to 5 for men's and women's Sambo, and the 2006 Combat Sambo championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on September 30 to October 2

Alexander Shpatov

Alexander Shpatov (born in 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer.

Ariana Brewery

The Ariana Brewery is a defunct company, founded in 1884 in Sofia, Bulgaria under the name Sofia Brewery, changing to Ariana in 1996.

Association of Special Fares Agents

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

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee was founded on July 14, 1992 with a headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee is an independent non-governmental organization for human rights founded on July 14, 1992 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Charles Arthur Moser

in 1992, after Anastasia Moser was elected General Secretary of the Bulgarian Agrarian Union, the Mosers moved to Sofia, Bulgaria.

Croatian Carmelite Province of Saint Joseph the Father

Outside Croatia, the Carmelites have two monasteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and near Tomislavgrad, one in Nënshat, Albania, one in Medvode, Slovenia, and one in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Darinka Dentcheva

From 1982 to 1994 Dentcheva was with the Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in Sofia (Bulgaria).

Dennis Sharp

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.

Emena Thes

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.

Fatos Arapi

Born in 1930 in the village of Zvërnec near Vlorë, he studied economics in Sofia, Bulgaria from 1949 to 1954, then started to work as a journalist in Tirana.

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.

Himni i Flamurit

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.

International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

It was established by the Danube River Protection Convention, signed by the Danube countries in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1994.

International Right to Know Day

The International Right to Know Day was proposed on 28 September 2002 at a meeting of Freedom of information organisations from around the world in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Karl Ernstberger

Their designs for the government building (Landtag) in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) in Bukowina and for the National Library and Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria obtained awards.

M. A. Numminen

Additionally, M.A. Numminen has been one of the unsung pioneers of Finnish electronic music, known for his collaborations with the composer and inventor Erkki Kurenniemi who built for Numminen a "singing machine" with which Numminen participated in a singing contest in 1964, and in the late 1960s the electronic instrument Sähkökvartetti ("Electric Quartet"), the performance of which wreaked havoc in a youth festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.

New Symphony Orchestra

The New Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1991 in Sofia, Bulgaria by the music critic Julia Hristova as an alternative to the existing Bulgarian musical institutions (which had been financially supported and controlled by the state until the fall of Communism in 1989).

Ogan v kravta

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.

Out for a Kill

Yin Quinshi (Dave Wong) of Sofia, Bulgaria, controls an Eastern European drug cartel.

Peace of Szeged

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.

Raziq Faani

Faani received his primary and secondary education in Afghanistan, and earned a Master’s degree in political economy in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1967.

Staro Groblje

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.

TRACECA

The objectives of TRACECA were underlined by the Baku Initiative of 2004, followed by a further ministerial conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2006.

V-Ray

The core developers of V-Ray are Vladimir Koylazov and Peter Mitev of Chaos Software production studio established in 1997, based in Sofia, Bulgaria.