* Modern Bulgarian – dates from the 16th century onwards, undergoing general grammar and syntax changes in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The historical development of the Bulgarian language can be described as a transition from a highly synthetic language ( Old Bulgarian ) to a typical analytic language ( Modern Bulgarian ) with Middle Bulgarian as a midpoint in this transition.

Modern Bulgarian was based essentially on the Eastern dialects of the language, but its pronunciation is in many respects a compromise between East and West Bulgarian ( see especially the phonetic sections below ).

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ( of the infinitive, if it exists, and indicative moods ), in English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Hindi, Persian, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Irish, Ancient Attic Greek and Modern Greek.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

Examples are Modern Greek, Albanian, Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian, Slavic languages such as Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and the modern Celtic languages such as Scottish Gaelic and Irish.

The Bulgarian language is also, to some degree, mutually intelligible with Russian on account of the influence which Russia has had on the development of Modern Bulgaria since 1878, as well as the earlier effect of Old Bulgarian on the development of Old Russian.

in October 2008, he built up a war chest for potential media acquisitions following the sale Nova, the Bulgarian assets of his Antenna TV company to Modern Times Group of Sweden for € 628m (£ 600m ).

* 2008 — ANT1 Group sold the Bulgarian Nova Television station to Swedish-based Modern Times Group for € 620 million, thus securing a crucial line of credit for its distressed core business that experienced fallen ratings in the 2007 — 2008 season.

He is considered one of the most important and popular " Founders of Modern Bulgaria ", and is sometimes referred to as " the Bulgarian Bismarck ".

A sentence in the perfective aspect cannot be in the perfect and vice versa ( except in Modern Greek and Bulgarian ).

In some cases, such as Spanish, Portuguese and Modern Greek, this is because the imperfective aspect only occurs in the past tense ; others, such as Georgian and Bulgarian, have both general imperfectives and imperfects.

There are a number of Byzantine and Modern Greek words, several dozens of which are also found in Daco-Romanian ( Romanian language ) and Aromanian and about 80 words that were borrowed via Macedonian and Bulgarian languages and other languages of the Balkans.

Modern Pueblo oral traditions hold that the Pueblo originated to the north of their current settlements, from sipapu, where they emerged from the underworld.

Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

Modern Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hit, and presents an attractive appearance.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

** Early Modern Britain, Britain from the Tudor period, from 1485 to 1707

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Dryden: " The rest in shape a beagle's whelp throughout, With broader forehead and a sharper snout " The Cock and the Fox, and again: " About her feet were little beagles seen " in Palamon and Arcite both from Fables, Ancient and Modern ( 1700 )

Modern historians have proposed wide ranging numbers for the infantry, from 20, 000 – 100, 000 with a consensus of perhaps 25, 000 ; estimates for the cavalry are in the range of 1, 000.

Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God's family.

The language became recognizable as Modern Khmer, spoken from the 19th century till today.

Modern microprocessors appear in everything from automobiles to cell phones and children's toys.

Modern structural concrete differs from Roman concrete in two important details.

Modern research has located 20, 000 mass graves from the Khmer Rouge era all over Cambodia.

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1999 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1990s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online at Questia

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1991 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1980s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online

Modern societies generally regard crimes as offences against the public or the state, as distinguished from torts ( wrongs against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action ).

The glossing was probably brought to England as Old French crimne ( 12th century form of Modern French crime ), from Latin crimen ( in the genitive case: criminis ).

Modern calculations in quantum chemistry usually start from ( but ultimately go far beyond ) a molecular orbital rather than a valence bond approach, not because of any intrinsic superiority in the former but rather because the MO approach is more readily adapted to numerical computations.

Modern materialist philosophy developed in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, starting in the generations after Machiavelli.

The Modern English form crocodile was adapted directly from the Classical Latin crocodīlus in the 16th century, replacing the earlier form.

Modern work on gravitational theory began with the work of Galileo Galilei in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Modern Sweden started out of the Kalmar Union formed in 1397 and by the unification of the country by King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century.

After the 16th century, this elected monarch governed the Holy Roman Empire ( later called Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation ), a Central European union of territories of the Medieval and Early Modern period.

Modern materialist philosophy developed in the 16th, 17th and 18th century, starting in the generations after Machiavelli.

Modern needlepoint descends from the canvas work in Tent Stitch, done on an evenly woven open ground fabric, that was a popular domestic craft in the 16th century, DEvelopment of needlepoint also got significant contributions from 17th-century Bargello through the shaded Berlin wool work in brightly-colored wool yarn in the 19th CEntury.

The Eurocentrism prevalent in international affairs in the 19th century had its historical roots in European colonialism and imperialism from the Early Modern period ( 16th to 18th centuries ).

His other works included well-known monographs on Richard III ( London, 1878 ), and on Henry VII ( London, 1889, and subsequently ); The Houses of Lancaster and York ( London, 1874, and other editions ); The English Church in the 16th century ( London, 1902 ); Lollardy and the Reformation in England ( 1908 ); and contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Dictionary of National Biography, the Cambridge Modern History, and the English Historical Review.

The pseudo Old English carol " God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen " first appeared in 1833, in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, a collection of seasonal carols gathered and apparently improvised by William B. Sandys ; after its brief appearance in Dickens ' " A Christmas Carol " ( 1843 ), it quickly developed its reputation for being 16th century or earlier.

The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy around the end of the 13th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

From the 17th century, written Alemannic was displaced by Standard German, which emerged from 16th century Early Modern High German, in particular in the wake of Martin Luther's bible translation of the 1520s.

The Middle Ages lasted until the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states, the division of Western Christianity in the Reformation, the rise of humanism in the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of European overseas expansion which allowed for the Columbian Exchange.

However, Early Scots had vocalized to by the 16th century and subsequently diphthongised to in Modern Scots, so that ' Colt ' would have become ' Cowt ' rather than ' Coat '.

Modern German author compare it to status of Marseille in 16th and 17th century towards the French King.

* Early Modern English ( language of KJV Bible and Shakespeare, 16th to 17th c .)

Gazi Husrev-beg ( Ottoman-' غازى خسرو بیگ ' < u > Gh </ u > āzī < u > Kh </ u > uṣrow Beg ; Modern Turkish: Gazi Hüsrev Bey ) ( 1480 – 1541 ) was a Bosniak beg in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century.

Modern Kryukovo District ; 16th microdistrict

Examples of escutcheon shapes: 1: Mediaeval French & English " Heater shield | heater style ", 2: Modern French, 3: Oval, 4: Lozenge ( for arms of an heraldic heiress, 5: Square, 6: Italian, 7: Swiss, 8: English, Four-centred arch | Tudor arch ( 16th. c.

The letter J was first distinguished from ' I ' by the Frenchman Pierre Ramus in the 16th century, but did not become common in Modern English until the 17th century, so that early 17th century works such as the first edition of the King James Version of the Bible ( 1611 ) continued to print the name with an I.

The Duchy of Milan found itself in the focus of European power politics in the 15th century, leading to the drawn-out Italian Wars, which persisted for the best part of the 16th century before giving way to the Early Modern period in Italy.

The style and content of modern pantomime also has very clear and strong links with the continental Commedia dell ' arte, a form of popular theatre that arose in Italy in the Early Modern Period, and reached England by the 16th century.

The song spent twenty weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 55th, plus nineteen weeks at the Modern Rock Tracks, peaking at 16th at the end of May, and peaked at 54th on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.