* 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.

The conflict precipitated Bulgarian involvement, and Michael Asen III of Bulgaria attempted to capture Andronikos II under the guise of sending him military support.

* 1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.

The most recent arrival of Balkan Turks took place in the 1940s until the 1990s, when the communist regime in Bulgaria expelled approximately 150, 000 Bulgarian Turks to Turkey.

Since 1990, Bulgaria has an unstable party system, in the past two decades differently dominated by the post-communist Bulgarian Socialist Party or by the right Union of Democratic Forces and recently by the new right-oriented party-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria.

From the end of World War II until the widespread change of regime in Eastern Europe in November 1989, the Bulgarian Communist Party ( BCP ) exerted complete economic, social and political control in Bulgaria.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

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 Military of Bulgaria, officially the Bulgarian Army () represents the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Exhausted from the previous war, which took the highest toll on Bulgaria, the Bulgarian army soon turned on the defensive.

Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war ; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I.

Even though Bulgaria did not send any troops to support the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Navy was involved in a number of skirmishes with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, which attacked Bulgarian shipping.

As the Red Army invaded Bulgaria in 1944 and installed a communist government, the armed forces were rapidly forced to reorganise following the Soviet model, and were renamed as the Bulgarian People's Army ( Bulgarska Narodna Armiya, BNA ).

Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.

Map of the Bulgarian dialects within Bulgaria

Bulgarian refers to anything of or relating to Bulgaria and may refer directly to:

The Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked into Bulgaria, while Romania and the Ottoman Empire also attacked Bulgaria and gained ( or regained ) territory.

But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

For a while in the 1920s and 1930s there was a Green International ( International Agrarian Bureau ) based on the peasant parties in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Serbia.

* Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, Bulgaria ( 1899 – 1946 )

At the same time, the PŢ's politics had given way to fears that it was a Romanian equivalent of Aleksandar Stamboliyski's Agrarian Union of Bulgaria, or even a parallel to Bolshevism.

The Agrarian Union " Aleksandar Stamboliyski " (, Zemedelski Sayuz " Aleksandar Stamboliyski ", ZS-AS ), is a progressive agrarian political party in Bulgaria.

The Agrarian People's Union (, Zemedelski Naroden Sajuz, ZNS ), until 2006 known as the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union – People's Union ( Balgarski Zemedelski Naroden Sajuz – Naroden Sajuz, BZNS-NS ), is a conservative agrarian party in Bulgaria.

The People's Republic of Bulgaria ( PRB ) (, Narodna republika Balgariya ( NRB )) was the official name of the Bulgarian communist republic that existed from 1946 to 1990, when the Bulgarian Communist Party ( BCP ) was ruling together with the ' oppositional ' National Agrarian Party.

The official translation of Suomen Keskusta, literally Centre of Finland is Centre Party in Finland, which gives the idea of global centre movement, which did exist between the world wars in its Agrarian forms mainly only in the Nordic countries and Bulgaria.

In 2005 Bulgaria had some 6, 238 kilometers of open access track owned by the state company " National Company Railway Infrastructure ", including a 125 kilometers long 760 mm narrow gauge railway-the Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line.

The National Guard of Bulgaria, founded in 1879, is the successor to the personal guards of Knyaz Alexander I.

Bronze deer figurine dating from between the XI and VI centuries BC, National Archaeological Museum ( Bulgaria ) | National Archaeological Museum of Sofia

The National Revival of Bulgaria, influenced by the Enligthenment, resulted in Petar Beron's Primer with Various Instructions ( also known as the Fish Primer ) in 1824.

* 1879 – The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.

File: Hand-driven-jacquard-loom. jpg | Austrian Jacquard handloom, end of 19th century, National Museum of textile Industry, Sliven, Bulgaria

* Day of the leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival ( Bulgaria )

* National Assembly of Bulgaria

Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia, Bulgaria

Saints Cyril and Methodius are patrons of the National Library of Bulgaria.

Skopje was liberated on 13 November 1944 by Yugoslav Partisan units of the Macedonian National Liberation Army, together with units of the newly allied Bulgarian People's Army ( Bulgaria having switched sides in the war in September ).

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

** The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.

* August 1 – The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Zhelyu Zhelev as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria in 40 years.

** The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Dimitar Iliev Popov as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

By the 19th century, the Bulgarian National Revival became a key component of the struggle for independence, which would culminate in the failed April uprising in 1876, which prompted the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 and the subsequent Liberation of Bulgaria.

Compatible parts were made by Motorola, AMD, Fairchild, Intel, Intersil, Signetics, Mullard, Siemens, SGS-Thomson and National Semiconductor, and many other companies, even in the Eastern Bloc ( Soviet Union, GDR, Poland, Bulgaria ).

In 1984 an underground organization called « National Liberation Movement of the Turks in Bulgaria » was formed in Bulgaria which headed the Turkish community's opposition movement.

The Jewish National Fund dedicated to Bulgaria a forest in Israel, a garden named for King Boris, and a Bulgarian square in Jerusalem.