The last such ruling abbess was Sofia Albertina, Princess of Sweden.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

In 1883 the military was reorganized in four infantry brigades ( in Sofia, Pleven, Ruse and Shumen ) and one cavalry brigade.

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.

His body was buried in the War Cemetery of Sofia.

Adapted from Antonia Fraser's book Marie Antoinette: The Journey, the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola.

The Church of Santa Sofia in Benevento was erected in 760 by Duke Arechis II.

His mother was Safiye Sultan, originally named Sofia Baffo, a Venetian noblewoman related to his father's mother.

Upon his death, there was a period of dynastic struggles between his children by his first wife Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya ( Feodor III, Sofia Alexeevna, Ivan V ) and his son by his second wife Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, the future Peter the Great.

He was astonished to find he was as popular there as he had been in 1964 ; he was forced to stay in his hotel room because he was mobbed on the streets of Sofia.

In 1957, a special tournament was held at the 53rd IOC session in Sofia, Bulgaria to support such request.

Yuri Gagarin was elected an honorary citizen of the cities of Kaluga, Novozybkov, Novocherkassk, Lyubertsy, Sumqayit, Smolensk, Vinnytsia and Sevastopol, Saratov, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Tyumen ( the USSR ), Orenburg ( Russia ), Sofia, Pernik, Plovdiv ( Bulgaria ), Athens ( Greece ), Famagusta, Limassol ( Cyprus ), Saint-Denis ( France ), and Teplice ( Czech Republic ).

In 1910, Grigori Rasputin was accused of having been a Khlyst by Sofia Ivanovna Tyutcheva, a governess of the Grand Duchesses of Russia, after being horrified that Rasputin was allowed access by the Tsar to the nursery of the Grand Duchesses, when the four girls were in their nightgowns.

The initial Treaty of San Stefano was rejected by the Western Great Powers, and the following Treaty of Berlin limited Bulgaria's territories to Moesia and the region of Sofia.

The new territory of Bulgaria was limited between the Danube and the Stara Planina range, with its seat at the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Turnovo and including Sofia.

It was renamed the University of Sofia in 1904, where the three faculties of history and philology, physics and mathematics, and law produced civil servants for national and local government offices.

The show in Sofia, Bulgaria on June 22, 2010, was sent via satellite in HD to cinemas and later released on DVD and Blu-ray.

Aurelian was born in Serdica ( today Sofia in Bulgaria ) in Moesia or what was later called Dacia Ripensis to an obscure provincial family ; his father was tenant to a senator named Aurelius, who gave his name to the family.

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.

1, Part 2, Marin Drinov Academic Publishers, Sofia, 1994, ISBN 954-430-299-9 ( That work can be found in the Internet, taken from the site " Books for Macedonia " ( in Bulgarian ) on 29. 01. 2008 )

One of the first steps taken by the Revolutionary Committee, which immediately took over the governancy of the country, was to order the expulsion from Greece of King Constantine and Queen Sofia and of the Princes Andrew and Nicholas, the ex-king's brothers, and to arrest all prominent premiers, politicians, and military and naval leaders of the Constantinist faction, such as Gounaris, Stratos, Protopapadakis, and Theotokis, Admiral Goudas, General Papoulas, etc.

In the first round of the European Cup 1972 – 73, the referee prematurely ended a shoot-out between CSKA Sofia and Panathinaikos, with CSKA leading 3 – 2 but Panathinaikos having taken only four kicks.

Initially taken to Tarnovo for interrogation, Levski was sent to Sofia on 4 January.

It is revealed that Sofia has taken on the codename Renascence while operating with the New Warriors.

Along with many girls in her village, Sofia Chumachenko was taken to Germany at the age of 14 to serve as a slave laborer.

Her ashes were finally taken to the samadh ( memorial ) in Lahore of her husband, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, by her granddaughter, Princess Bamba Sofia Jindan Duleep Singh.

The Bulgarian government declared a token war on the United Kingdom and the United States near the end of 1941, an act which resulted in the bombing of Sofia and other Bulgarian cities by Allied aircraft.

Its forces encountered little resistance and by the time the Greeks accepted the Bulgarian request for armistice they had reached Vrazhdebna, 7 miles from the center of Sofia.

Co-written with his daughter Sofia, the film is a mystifying embarrassment ; it's by far the director's worst work yet.

Some reviewers criticized the casting of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who stepped into a role abandoned by Winona Ryder just as filming began.

* 1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.

Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.

The rules governing good neighbourly relations agreed between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia were set in the Joint Declaration of February 22, 1999 reaffirmed by a joint memorandum signed on January 22, 2008 in Sofia.

* A Guide to Ottoman Bulgaria " by Dimana Trankova, Anthony Georgieff and Professor Hristo Matanov ; published by Vagabond Media, Sofia, 2011 www. vagabond. bg / ottomanbulgaria

Following her death on 31 December 1386 ( allegedly mangled by one of Wenceslaus ' beloved deer-hounds ), he married her first cousin once removed, Sofia of Bavaria, on 2 May 1389.

The capital of Sofia grew by a factor of 600 %-from 20, 000 population in 1878 to 120, 000 in 1912, primarily from peasants who arrived from the villages to become laborers tradesman and office seekers.

* 12 Myths in Bulgarian History, by Bozhidar Dimitrov ; Published by " KOM Foundation ," Sofia, 2005.

* The 7th Ancient Civilizations in Bulgaria ( The Golden Prehistoric Civilization, Civilization of Thracians and Macedonians, Hellenistic Civilization, Roman Civilization, Byzantine Civilization, Bulgarian Civilization, Islamic Civilization ), by Bozhidar Dimitrov ; Published by " KOM Foundation ," Sofia, 2005 ( 108 p .)

This turned into a disaster for the citizens of Sofia and other major Bulgarian cities, which were heavily bombed by the Allies in the winter of 1943 – 1944.

* In 2006 a two-episode TV movie was broadcast by Italian state television RAI, dedicated to the magistrate, starring Massimo Dapporto as Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Francesca Morvillo.

* Pope Julius I tries to unite the Western bishops against Arianism by convoking the Council of Sardica ( later Sofia ), which acknowledges the pope's supreme authority and grants him the right to judge cases involving the legal possession of episcopal sees, but only Western and Egyptian bishops attend, and Arianism remains strong.