After the fall of Communism and Bulgaria's transition to a market economy, wages fell severely.

The Serbo-Bulgarian War was the first armed conflict after Bulgaria's liberation.

But it was not a secret that Bulgaria's target was the fulfilment of the never materialized Treaty of San Stefano signed after the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78.

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

Bulgaria's once thriving film industry, concentrated in the Boyana Film studios, has suffered a period of decay after 1990.

The only hard evidence published was a discussion between Gorbachev and Bulgaria's Aleksandar Lilov from May 23, 1990 ( after Iliescu's victory in the May 20 elections ) in which Gorbachev says that Iliescu holds a " calculated position ", and that despite sharing common views with Iliescu, Gorbachev wanted to avoid sharing this impression with the public.

When Romania after the ( First Balkan ) war demanded its cession, Bulgaria's foreign minister offered instead some minor border changes, which excluded Silistra, and assurances for the rights of the Kutzovlachs in Macedonia.

Three weeks after publication in 1982, the book was banned and removed from bookstores and libraries as it likened Bulgaria's socialist state to the country's fascist administration of World War II.

It had been part of Romania since 1913, after Bulgaria's defeat in the Second Balkan War.

He began his career as a youngster with Sliven football club ( Bulgaria ), after breaking into the first team at a young age he secured a transfer to Bulgaria's top side CSKA Sofia ( Bulgaria, 1991 – 92 season ) and soon after he made the move to Germany with Hamburger SV ( Germany, from the 1992 – 93 season to the 1995 – 96 season ).

The Bulgarian Communist Party had dominated the Fatherland Front coalition that took power in 1944, late in World War II, after it led a coup against Bulgaria's tsarist government in conjunction with the Red Army's crossing the border.

The transfer did not take place until after Bulgaria's accession to the European Union the following year in order to minimise customs formalities.

Nor did they indicate any understanding of the catastrophic consequences for the Central Powers following the collapse of the Balkan front after Bulgaria's withdrawal from the war.

In 1878, shortly after Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule, the General Assembly voted to move the seat of the Society from Brăila to Sofia, and on 1 March 1893 the BLS moved into its own building, right next to where the Bulgarian Parliament is seated.

Bulgaria's government recently decided to start the construction of a new reactor in Kozloduy after it gave up on the construction of what was supposed to be the country's second nuclear power plant in Belene.

On August 25, 2005, a few hours after the match with OFK Beograd in Burgas, Lokomotiv's owner Georgi Iliev was killed by a gunshot at a restaurant in Sunny Beach, a resort town on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast nearby Burgas, by a suspected sniper.

Almost all of Bulgaria's 500, 000-man standing army was positioned against these two countries, on two fronts – western and southern, while the borders with Romania and the Ottoman Empire were left almost unguarded.

The government of Vasil Radoslavov aligned the country with Germany and Austria-Hungary, even though this meant also becoming an ally of the Ottomans, Bulgaria's traditional enemy.

Gorbachev grew to dislike Honecker, and by 1988 was lumping Honecker, along with Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslovakia's Gustáv Husák and Romania's Nicolae Ceaușescu as a " Gang of Four "— a group of inflexible hardliners unwilling to make necessary reforms.

A series of crises in the 1990s left much of Bulgaria's industry and agriculture in shambles, although a period of relative stabilisation began with the election of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as prime minister in 2001.

The government of Vasil Radoslavov aligned Bulgaria with the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, even though this meant becoming an ally of the Ottomans, Bulgaria's traditional enemy.

According to Dr. Marinova-Christidi the main reason for the efforts of Bulgarian people to save the Bulgarian Jews during WWII is Bulgaria's history of “ co-existed for centuries with other religions ”-giving it a unique multi-cultural and multi-ethnic history.

Following a large and impressive state funeral at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, where the streets were lined with weeping crowds, the coffin of Tsar Boris III was taken by train to the mountains and buried in Bulgaria's largest and most important monastery, the Rila Monastery.

As a consequence of the invasion of the Soviet Red Army, Bulgaria's government, which was allied with Germany, was overthrown.

Serbia, with its campaign, was a major Balkan Entente Power which contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the Balkans in November 1918, especially by helping France force Bulgaria's capitulation.

Bulgaria's domestic political life was dominated during the early years of Ferdinand's reign by liberal party leader Stefan Stambolov, whose foreign policy saw a marked cooling in relations with Russia, formerly seen as Bulgaria's protector.

Romanos ' rise to power had cut off Simeon I of Bulgaria's plans for a marital alliance with Constantine VII, and Romanos was determined to deny the unpopular concession of imperial recognition to Simeon, which had already toppled two imperial governments.

Varna is also Bulgaria's only international cruise destination ( with over 30 cruises scheduled for 2007 ) and a major international convention and spa centre.

Zita was with Charles when he received the telegram of Bulgaria's collapse.

The meal is often accompanied with wine or Bulgaria's traditional alcoholic beverage rakia.

The reason was Bulgaria's diplomatic policy of pushing Serbia into an agreement limiting her access to Macedonia, while at the same time refusing any such agreement with Greece.

On 28 March 2010, in an interview for Bulgaria's Katehizis. com online music magazine, Perry revealed the possibility of a future Dead Can Dance reunion: " Yes, I've been talking about it with Lisa.

Bulgaria's contribution to humanity continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with individuals such as John Atanasoff — a United States citizen of Bulgarian and British descent, regarded as the co-father of the digital computer.

The lev was introduced as Bulgaria's currency in 1881 with a value equal to the French franc.

On 25 April 2005, when Bulgaria's EU accession treaty was signed, the BNB issued a commemorative coin with the face value of 1. 95583 leva.

During World War II, Zhivkov participated in Bulgaria's resistance movement against the country's alignment with Nazi Germany.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, strengthened Bulgaria's position as a regional military power, significantly reduced Ottoman influence over the Balkans, and resulted in the formation of an independent Albanian state.

Bulgaria's total military personnel as of late 2010 is 34, 500, of which 30, 400 ( 88. 1 %) are active military personnel and 4, 100 ( 11. 9 %) are civilian personnel.

This split, which occurred at some point during the Middle Ages, led to the development of Bulgaria's:

In 2005, Passy donated the vehicle, which had become a symbol of Bulgaria's NATO accession, to the National Historical Museum of Bulgaria.

This left many ethnic Bulgarians out of the borders of the new state, which defined Bulgaria's militaristic approach to regional affairs and its allegiance to Germany in both World Wars.

Sofia holds Bulgaria's largest museum collections, which attract tourists and students for practical studies.

Bulgaria's shift towards the Papacy infuriated Patriarch Photios who wrote an encyclical to the eastern clergy in 867, in which he denounced the practices associated with the western rite and Rome's ecclesiastical intervention in Bulgaria.

However, it is crossed by Bulgaria's widest river, the Iskar, which forms the spectacular Iskar Gorge.

In April, 1988, Bulgaria's specialised magazine for computers, ' Компютър за Вас ' ( Computer for You ), issued an article which explained in detail the nature of computer viruses and even methods for writing them.

On 8 October 1991, ninety-three members of Bulgaria's National Assembly — virtually all of them affiliated with the former Communist Party — asked the constitutional court to declare the MRF unconstitutional citing article 11. 4 of the constitution which explicitly bans political parties " formed on ethnic, racial, and religious basis ".

In February 2005, the MRF opposed the privatisation of Bulgaria's largest tobacco company, Bulgartabak, which was backed by the government and the European Union, as on the grounds that the industry traditionally employs ethnic Turks.

After 1944, the Bulgarian policy on the Macedonian Question was changed under Bulgaria's new communist regime, which was committed to the Comintern policy of supporting the development of a distinct ethnic Macedonian consciousness.

The place is best known for the Belene prison ( formerly a concentration camp ) on Belene Island where thousands of innocent Bulgarians found their death during the communist dictature, and as the proposed site of Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant, which has been under construction 7 km east of the town until it was interrupted in 1990 due to the severe economic crisis that followed the fall of communism in the country.

Some of Bulgaria's non-Islamic population kept the Bolgar language, which was influenced by the Mari language, a language commonly used in the territories to which they had relocated.

The Greek army was threatened by encirclement in the valley, but due to the Romanian army advancing against the undefended capital Sofia, Bulgaria had to agree to an armistice and the resulting peace treaty in Bucharest which was unfavorable to Bulgaria's territorial aspirations.

When the negotiations were discovered, the Bulgarians rebelled and held an assembly, in which they accused Sabin of causing Bulgaria's enslavement by the Byzantines.

PFC Botеv Plovdiv ( / bɔtɛv pɫɔvdiv /), is the oldest Bulgarian football club from the city of Plovdiv, which competes in Bulgaria's top football league-A PFG.