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.

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

The Kingdom of Bulgaria participated in World War I on the side of the Central Powers between 15 October 1915, when the country declared war on Serbia, to 29 September 1918, when the Armistice of Thessalonica was signed.

The Second Balkan War broke out on 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 when Bulgaria attacked its erstwhile allies in the First Balkan War, Serbia and Greece, while Montenegro, Romania and the Ottoman Empire intervened later against Bulgaria.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

* 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.

Some, including the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes, have claimed that Konon's family had been resettled in Thrace, where he entered the service of Emperor Justinian II, when the latter was advancing on Constantinople with an army of 15, 000 horsemen provided by Tervel of Bulgaria in 705.

The valley of the river Vardar, which was later to become the central area of the Republic of Macedonia, was ruled by the Ottoman Empire prior to the First Balkan War of 1912, with the exception of the brief period in 1878 when it was liberated from Ottoman rule after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, becoming part of Bulgaria.

A relatively thriving period followed after 1300, but ended in 1371, when factional divisions caused Bulgaria to split into three small Tsardoms.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria was ruled by Тsar Boris III when it signed the Tripartite Pact on 1 March 1941.

However, when Gestuno was first used, at the WFD congress in Bulgaria in 1976, it was incomprehensible to deaf participants.

Islam in Bulgaria can be traced back to the mid-9th century when there were Islamic missionaries in Bulgaria, evidenced by a letter from Pope Nicholas to Boris of Bulgaria that the Saracens must be extirpated.

This approach has been a tradition since the foundation of Bulgaria in 1879, when large numbers of ethnic Bulgarians remained outside of the state.

Sofia's population remained small until 1879, when it was declared a capital of the Principality of Bulgaria after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.

The Second Balkan War soon ensued when Bulgaria turned against Serbia and Greece, but their armies repulsed the offensive and penetrated into Bulgaria.

There are only two occasions in the books when the team that catches the Snitch loses: once during the Quidditch World Cup final, when Viktor Krum of Bulgaria catches the Snitch, and once when Ginny Weasley replaces Harry as Seeker after he has been banned from playing by Dolores Umbridge.

The Orphic religion, which taught reincarnation, first appeared in Thrace in north-eastern Greece and Bulgaria, about the 6th century BC, organized itself into mystery schools at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.

In 1965, he appeared on stamps from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Hungary.

In 1966, he appeared on stamps from Bulgaria, Mali, and Mauritania.

Historic Marcionism, and the church Marcion himself established, appeared to die out around the 5th century, although similarities between Marcionism and Paulicianism, a later heresy in the same geographical area, indicate that Marcionist ideas may have survived and even contributed to heresies in Bulgaria and France.

Vsevolod's chief enemies, however, were the Southern Ryazan Principality, which appeared to stir discord in the princely family, and the mighty Turkic state of Volga Bulgaria, which bordered Vladimir-Suzdal to the east.

In the summer of 1237 the first wave of this Cuman exodus appeared in Bulgaria.

In the mid-70s he was secretly a member of The Wombles and appeared on Top of The Pops as Uncle Bulgaria, with Rick Kemp and Bob Johnson also in Womble suits.

Two other nonconformist tracts appeared, both deploying established authorities such as St. Ambrose, Theophilactus of Bulgaria, Erasmus, Bucer, Martyr, John Epinus of Hamburg, Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Philipp Melanchthon, a Lasco, Bullinger, Wolfgang Musculus of Bern, and Rodolph Gualter.

The TV drama was wildly successful in the USSR, where it appeared on state TV in 1986 and in communist Bulgaria, where is also appeared in the end of the 1980s: bg: Октопод ( сериал ), offering to the viewers of both countries thrills and dark drama from beyond the Iron Curtain.

Overall, Illgner appeared 54 times for his country, and also played at the 1994 World Cup, surprisingly retiring after the quarterfinal loss against Bulgaria, although he was only 27.

* December 14 – Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.

Such high ranking party show trials included those of Koçi Xoxe in Albania and Traicho Kostov in Bulgaria, who were purged and arrested.

History of Bulgaria from the Bulgarian, Stefan Kostov ; editor, Dimiter Markovski.

* Ivan Kostov ( b. 1953 ), politician, former prime minister of Bulgaria

Built in 1961 by a group of astronomy enthusiasts led by high school physics teacher Hristo Kostov, Belogradchik Observatory became the first school observatory in Bulgaria.

Third was the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, mainly supported by ethnic Turks and Roma with around 13 %, fourth were the far-right nationalists National Union Attack with around 8 %, fifth were the previously governing centre-right United Democratic Forces also with around 8 %, sixth was a party that broke away party from the United Democratic Forces-Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria, led by the prime minister between 1997 and 2001 Ivan Kostov and seventh and the last that entered the parliament was the Bulgarian People's Union, which represents а coalition of two parties that broke away from the United Democratic Forces and one nationalist party.

* Maria ( renamed Eirene ), who married Emperor Michael Asen IV of Bulgaria

The Empire's problems were exploited by Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria, who defeated Michael IX and conquered much of northeastern Thrace in c. 1305 – 1307.

In addition, Serbia's ruler Milan Obrenović IV was annoyed that Serbian opposition leaders like Nikola Pašić, who had escaped persecution after the Timok Rebellion, had found asylum in Bulgaria.

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev ( who was not a communist himself, but a member of the elitarian political organization " Zveno ", working together with the communists ), took full control of domestic politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

It should be noted that after Bulgaria obtained full independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908, its monarch, who was previously styled " Knyaz ", i. e. Prince, took the traditional title of " Tsar " which in Bulgarian means King and was recognized internationally as such.

At the end of the 9th century, one of these students of Methodius who had settled in Preslav ( Bulgaria ) created the Cyrillic script, which almost entirely replaced the Glagolitic during the Middle Ages.

The first satellites bear the names of eleven-year-old Thijs from Belgium and nine-year-old Natalia from Bulgaria who are the first winners of the European Commission's Galileo children's drawing competition.

After the end of the war, the ELAS fighters who took refuge in southern Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were not all permitted to return to Greece: only those who considered themselves Greeks were allowed, whereas those who considered themselves Bulgarians or Macedonians were barred.

Morphine is also used in slow release formulations for opiate substitution therapy ( OST ) in Austria, Bulgaria, and Slovenia, for addicts who cannot tolerate the side effects of using either methadone or buprenorphine, or for addicts who are " not held " by buprenorphine or methadone.

They may have been influenced by an earlier religious sect of Armenian " Paulicians ", who became known as the " Bogomils " of Thrace, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Serbia.

* Bulgarian Jews who left Bulgaria, a result of his request to King Boris of Bulgaria.

Likewise, Tim Goodwin, who conducted the orchestra that backed Orbison in Bulgaria, had been told that Orbison's voice would be a singular experience to hear.

** After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

* Winter – Olympiodorus, historical writer, is sent on an embassy by Honorius and sails in stormy weather around Greece up the Black Sea to meet the Huns who are located on the middle Danube ( modern Bulgaria ).

* Ottoman forces overrun the last domains of Constantine II of Bulgaria, who dies in exile at the Serbian court ; end of the Bulgarian Empire.

This is questionable, as these names follow conventions well established in other Slavic lands, and it ignores Vladimir of Bulgaria, who ruled between 889-893.

Under Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria ( Simeon the Great ), who was educated in Constantinople, Bulgaria became again a serious threat to the Byzantine Empire.

In the first place, Basil II guaranteed the indivisibility of Bulgaria in its former geographic borders and did not officially abolish the local rule of the Bulgarian nobility, who became part of Byzantine aristocracy as archons or strategoi.

However, weakened 14th-century Bulgaria was no match for a new threat from the south, the Ottoman Turks, who crossed into Europe in 1354.

Bulgaria also negotiated with the Allies, who offered somewhat less generous terms.