The venture failed because of competition from other cars and the Bulgarian government's failure to honour agreements to reduce tariffs on imported parts and buy thousands of Maestros for government departments.

Nonetheless, beginning in the early 1960s low capital and labour productivity and expensive material inputs plagued the Bulgarian economy.

* 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.

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

The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire as a simplification of the Glagolitic alphabet which more closely resembled the Greek alphabet.

According to old Bulgarian chronicles, the day of the holy brothers used to be celebrated ecclesiastically as early as the 11th century.

During much of the early medieval period, the town was contested between the Byzantines and the Bulgarian Empire, whose capital it was between 972 and 992.

During much of the early medieval period, the town was contested by both the Byzantines and the Bulgarian Empire.

Bulgarian nationalism emerged in the early 19th century under the influence of western ideas such as liberalism and nationalism, which trickled into the country after the French Revolution, mostly via Greece.

In his boyhood and early youth Alexander frequently visited Saint Petersburg, and he accompanied his uncle, the Tsar, who was much attached to him, during the Bulgarian campaign of 1877.

Odessus was an early Christian centre, as testified by ruins of ten early basilicas, a monophysite monastery, and indications that one of the Seventy Disciples, Ampliatus, follower of Saint Andrew ( who, according to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church legend, preached in the city in 56 CE ), served as bishop there.

One of the early centres of industrial development and the Bulgarian labor movement, Varna established itself as the nation's principal port of export, a major grain producing and viticulture centre, seat of the nation's oldest institution of higher learning outside Sofia, a popular venue for international festivals and events, as well as the country's de facto summer capital with the erection of the Euxinograd royal summer palace ( currently, the Bulgarian government convenes summer sessions there ).

Stalin and other leaders told visiting Bulgarian and Yugoslav delegations in early 1946 that Germany must be both Soviet and communist.

A bridged Stone run | stone river in Bistrishko Branishte, an early Bulgarian nature reserve established in 1934.

The Bulgarians have descended from three main tribal groups, which mixed themselves and formed a Slavic-speaking nation and ethnicity in the First Bulgarian Empire: 1 ) the Slavs, who gave their language to the Bulgarians ; 2 ) the Bulgars, from whom the ethnonym and the early statehood were inherited ; as well as 3 ) the ' indigenous ' late Roman provincial peoples: Thraco-Romans and Thraco-Byzantines, from whom certain cultural elements were taken.

Bulgarian linguists consider the officialized Macedonian language ( since 1944 ) a local variation of Bulgarian, just as the most ethnographers and linguists until the early 20th century considered the local Slavic speech in the Macedonian region.

The Legend of Saint Gerard discloses that followers of Bulgarian Bogomilism were present during the early 11th century in Ahtum's realm, which comprised present day Banat.

Starting from the compound, non-ruler titles that were attested among Bulgarian noble class such as kavkhan ( vicekhan ), tarkhan, and boritarkhan, scholars derive the title khan or kan for the early Bulgarian leader – if there was a vicekhan ( kavkhan ) there was probably a " full " khan, too.

Compare also the rendition of the name of early Bulgarian ruler Pagan as ( Kampaganos ), likely resulting from a misinterpretation of " Kan Pagan ", in Patriarch Nicephorus's so-called Breviarium In general, however, the inscriptions as well as other sources designate the supreme ruler of Danube Bulgaria with titles that exist in the language in which they are written – archontеs, meaning ' commander or magistrate ' in Greek, and knyaze, meaning ' duke ' or ' prince ' in Slavic.

Alleged Bulgarian implication in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981 exacerbated the problem and kept relations cool through the early 1980s.

Katardjiev defines all Macedonian revolutionaries from the period before 1930s as " Bulgarians " and asserts that separatism of some Macedonian revolutionaries toward official Bulgarian policy was only a political phenomenon without an ethnic character.

Katardjiev defines all Macedonian revolutionaries from the period before 1930s as " Bulgarians " and asserts that separatism of some Macedonian revolutionaries toward official Bulgarian policy was only political phenomenon without ethnic character.