In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia (, Iztochna Rumeliya ;, Rumeli-i Şarkî ;, Anatoliki Romylia ) was an autonomous unit ( Oblast in Bulgarian, vilayet in Turkish ) in the Ottoman Empire, created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and ended in 1885, when it willingly united with Bulgaria, from which state its territory is still part.

A small Bulgarian unit, which soon became a full division moved into the city and immediately started an attempt to establish a condominium in spite of initial assurances to the contrary, showing no intentions to leave.

The župa is also mentioned as an administrative unit in the First Bulgarian Empire, a subdivision of a larger unit called comitatus.

* an administrative unit in the First Bulgarian Empire ruled by a komita and further subdivided into several zhupi, each ruled by a zhupan.

Lieutenant Hatzioannou with his unit attacked, neutralised and arrested the guard of the Bulgarian post office and bank in the Grant hotel.

Kroum Pindoff () ( born 1915 in Emporio, Mouriki municipality, Kozani regional unit, Greece ) is a Bulgarian Canadian businessman born in Greek Macedoniaand raised in Bulgaria.

Symvoli (, before 1927: Μπάνιτσα-Banitsa, Bulgarian / Macedonian: Баница-Banitsa, Banica ) is a village in the eastern part of the municipal unit of Kormista in the Serres regional unit, Macedonia, Greece.

Agia Paraskevi (, Bulgarian and, Sveta Petka ) is a village in the Florina regional unit, Greece.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

Following the elimination of the Bulgarian nobility and clergy by the Turks, Bulgaria entered an age of oppression, intellectual stagnation and misgovernment that would leave its culture shattered and isolated from Europe for the next 500 years.

The Bulgarian Army entered Greek territory, with the goal of restoring its pre-World War I outlet to the Aegean Sea in Thrace.

In February 2008, AIB entered into an agreement to acquire a 49. 99 % interest in Bulgarian American Credit Bank AD, a specialist provider of secured finance to small and medium sized companies in Bulgaria.

However, these movements, as well as the National Movement for Rights and Freedoms, member of a Social-Democratic coalition (' Rose coalition ') failed to secure any elected representative, including through coalitions with non-ethnic parties, whereas the MRF became the third main Bulgarian party at the June 2005 parliamentary elections and entered a three-party coalition in August with the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the National Movement Simeon II.

Here he entered at first the Bulgarian Students Association.

He entered the Bulgarian service in 1879, and in 1881 became minister of education at Sofia.

On August 14, 1916, Romania entered the War on the Entente side, and had most of its territory ( including Bucharest ) occupied by the German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian troops in the summer of 1917.

As Boris II and Roman entered the region under Bulgarian control in 977, Boris II dismounted and went ahead of his brother.

The word entered the Serbian and Bulgarian languages as mehana ( механа, plural механе, in Bulgarian механи ) and in Macedonian is meana ( меана, plural меани ).

After the fall of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in 1394, some of the diocesesunder its jurisdiction entered the Ohrid Archbishopric.

In late January, still unranked, she entered another $ 25, 000 tournament at La Quinta, and again battled through three rounds of qualifying into the main draw, despite a scare in her qualifying match against American player Stacia Fonseca, who took the first set from the Bulgarian before the match swung decisively the other way.

During Ivan Alexander's rule, the Second Bulgarian Empire entered a period of cultural renaissance, which is sometimes referred to as the " Second Golden Age of Bulgarian culture ", the original one being the rule of Simeon the Great.

It entered Bulgarian airplay charts, another ' first ever ' in the band's history, despite the tongue-in-cheek implications in the lyrics.

The BSDP entered the centre-left Coalition for Bulgaria and in 2002, changed its name to Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats.

The Bulgarian government entered into an alliance with King Charles I of Sicily who was planning a campaign against Michael VIII with the object of restoring the Latin Empire.

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.

It retreated according to plan for two days while Thessaloniki was cleared of the remaining Bulgarian regiment.

Around 680 AD the Bulgar group, led by khan Kuber ( who belonged to the same clan as the Danubian Bulgarian khan Asparukh ), settled in the Pelagonian plain, and launched campaigns to the region of Thessaloniki.

The Bulgarian army arrived one day after the surrender of the city to Greece and Tahsin Pasha, ruler of the city, told the Bulgarian officials that " I have only one Thessaloniki, which I have surrendered ".

Having a low regard for the Greek Army's military effectiveness, the Bulgarian leadership estimated that, according to the military plans, their limited forces that had been deployed to the Macedonian theatre would be able to occupy the larger part of the region and the important port city of Thessaloniki before the Greeks.

Only a few years before, the Greeks and Bulgarians had fought a vicious guerrilla war in the area, and a Bulgarian regiment, which had been allowed to enter Thessaloniki eight months before, ostensibly for recuperation, had remained there ever since.

Even worse, the effort in capturing Thrace and Constantinople ultimately caused the loss of the major part of Macedonia including Thessaloniki and that could not be easily accepted, leading the Bulgarian military leadership around Tsar Ferdinand to decide upon a war against its former allies.

The main Bulgarian attack was planned against the Serbs with their 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Armies, while the 2nd Army was tasked with an attack towards Greek positions around Thessaloniki.

The Bulgarian forces were forced to withdraw from their positions north of Thessaloniki ( except the isolated battalion stationed in the city itself which was quickly overrun ) to defensive positions between Kilkis and Struma river.

On 26 June the Bulgarian Army received orders to destroy the opposing Greek forces and to advance towards Thessaloniki.

In addition, the Bulgarian ruler chose Strumitsa for his defensive base — it was located on the road from Thessaloniki leading to Thrace to the east and Ohrid to the west.

Venizelos, having accurate information from the Greek embassy in Sofia about the movement of the Bulgarian army towards the city, sent a telegram to Constantine in a strict tone, holding him responsible for the possible loss of Thessaloniki.

Constantine, now King after his father's assassination in March, neutralized the Bulgarian forces in Thessaloniki and pushed the Bulgarian army further back with a series of hard-fought victories.

* Motorway 25 ( A25 ) is a branch of the A2 ( Egnatia Odos ) and lies between Thessaloniki to the Greek – Bulgarian border crossing, via Serres ( taking over parts of the GR-12 ); and between Thessaloniki towards Nea Moudania, referred to in this part of its section as the Thessaloniki – Nea Moudania Motorway or Chalkidiki Motorway.

* E79: Bulgarian border – Serres through GR-57, Serres – Thessaloniki through GR-12

A conflict arose when Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise, allegedly acting under pressure from his mistress Zoe Zaoutzaina and her father Stylianos Zaoutzes, moved the marketplace for Bulgarian goods from Constantinople to Thessaloniki, where the Bulgarian merchants were heavily taxed.

Simeon often violated the peace treaty with Byzantium, attacking and conquering Byzantine territory on several occasions, such as in 904, when the Bulgarian raids were used by Arabs led by the Byzantine renegade Leo of Tripoli to undertake a maritime campaign and seize Thessaloniki.