* Транскрибиране на български език-Transcription into the Bulgarian

The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

It is located south-west of Bucharest, towards the Bulgarian border.

He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days: 30 January in the Old-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church ; 17 January in the New-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Since Bulgarian lev is anyway bounded to Euro Bulgaria is looking for more positive outcomes of the becoming a member of the Eurozone rather than risks.

The national passenger and freight operator is called Bulgarian State Railways, but there are also a number of private operators including Bulgarian Railway Company and DB Schenker Rail Bulgaria.

The patron saint of the Bulgarian Army is St. George.

The Bulgarian Armed Forces are Headquartered in Sofia, where most of the general staff is based.

Currently headed by Chief of Staff general Simeon Simeonov, the General Staff is responsible for operational command of the Bulgarian Army and its 3 major branches.

On 12 July of that year, the guards escorted the Bulgarian knyaz for the first time ; today, 12 July is the official holiday of the National Guard.

The Codex Zographensis is one of the oldest manuscript s in the Old Bulgarian language dated from the late 10th or early 11th century

A most notable example of anachronism is the Service of St. Cyril from Skopje ( Скопски миней ), a 13th-century Middle Bulgarian manuscript from northern Macedonia according to which St. Cyril preached with " Bulgarian " books among the Moravian Slavs.

Consequently, modern Bulgarian is about as far from Russian as Swedish is from German.

Today one difference between Bulgarian dialects in the country and literary spoken Bulgarian is the significant presence of Old Bulgarian words and even word forms in the latter.

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 ).

The data provided in the Bulgarian censuses from 1888 until World War II is regarded as highly reliable according to the standards of the time.

Macedonian, although mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, certain dialects of Serbian and to a lesser extent the rest of the South Slavic dialect continuum is considered by Bulgarian linguists to be a Bulgarian dialect, in contrast with the contemporary international view, and the view in the Republic of Macedonia which regards it as a language in its own right.

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 ".

Rhod-ope ( Род-oпа ) is interpreted as the first name of a river, meaning " rusty / redish river ", where Rhod-has the same Indo-European root as the Bulgarian " руда " ( ore, " ruda "), " ръжда " ( rust, " razda "), " риж " ( latinrufous ) and germ.

In addition, 2. 69 % speak " Other Indic languages " ( mainly Bengali ), 2. 47 % speak " Other Indo-European languages " ( mainly Albanian ), 0. 85 % speak " African languages ", and 0. 56 % speak " Other Slavic languages " ( mainly Bulgarian ).

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

The development of the Bulgarian language may be divided into several periods.

* Old Bulgarian ( 9th to 11th century, also referred to as Old Church Slavonic ) – a literary norm of the early southern dialect of the Common Slavic language from which Bulgarian evolved.

It was a language of rich literary activity and the official administration language of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

Present-day written Bulgarian language was standardized on the basis of the 19th-century Bulgarian vernacular.

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.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

He claims to have received two months of training in weaponry and terrorist tactics in Syria as a member of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine paid for by the Communist Bulgarian government, although this has been questioned.

* July 13 – Grisha Filipov, leading member of the Bulgarian communist party ( d. 1994 )

* Borislav Mikhailov ( b. 1963 ), football player and Bulgarian Football Union president, member of the executive committee of UEFA

Serbs speak the Serbian language, a member of the South Slavic group of languages, specifically in the Southwestern Slavic group, with the Southeastern group containing Bulgarian and Macedonian.

; Angel Tonchev Balevski ( full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ): for outstanding achievements in metallurgy and metal technology.

A boyar, or bolyar (; ; ; ; ), was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Bulgarian, Moscovian, Kievan Rus ' ian, Wallachian, and Moldavian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes ( in Bulgaria, tsars ), from the 10th century through the 17th century.

A member of the nobility during the First Bulgarian Empire was called a boila, while in the Second Bulgarian Empire, the corresponding title became bolyar or bolyarin.

He was named an Honorary Academician of the Art Academy of the USSR, and was an honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Art.

He was president of the Croatian National congress and lobbied on behalf of Croatian self determination in Washington, Western Europe and Australia and a deputy in the Croatian Parliament, member of Croatia ’ s delegation to the Council of Europe and the Interparliamentary Union and served as ambassador in the Foreign Ministry, recipient of Croatian and Bulgarian decorations.

She has followed closely the post-Soviet transition of Eastern Europe, from 2002 to 2012 was a member of the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Council, along with Vint Cerf, George Sadowsky, and Veni Markovski, among others.

According to Bulgarian law, a Bulgarian president is not allowed to be a member of a political party, thus Parvanov is independent and he left the Socialist Party after his success in the presidential elections, although he identified as a socialist, Parvanov often declares being a ' social president '.

Petar Stoyanov is member of the Bulgarian Internet Society since 2000, and has been regular Internet user.

Most of the parties within the Front ceased to exist, but it became a mass organisation ( popular front ) for the communists, with the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union as a remaining member of the Front.

In 1976, at the 15th congress, the IWA was not functioning as an international union body, with only five member groups, two of which ( the Spanish and Bulgarian members ) were still operating in exile ( though following Franco's death in 1975, the CNT was already approaching a membership of 200, 000 ).

Zhelev was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party, but was expelled from it for political reasons in 1965.

In 1988, just before the Fall of Communism, Zhelev founded the Ruse Committee, and in 1989 he became a founding member and chairman of the Club for Support of Openness and Reform ( a time when many such democratic clubs were formed ), which helped him to achieve the position of Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Union of Democratic Forces ( Bulgarian: СДС, SDS ) party.

It was during this time in Italy that Ledeen supported the " Bulgarian connection " conspiracy theory concerning Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca's 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II.

The Bulgaria national football team () is an association football team fielded by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA.

Karavelov's publications gathered a number of followers and initiated the foundation of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee ( BRCC ), a centralised revolutionary diasporic organisation that included Levski as a founding member and statute drafter.

He has been a member of the jury in many folklore festivals, both International and Bulgarian.