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| | Bulgaria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Most of the population belongs to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church; in 1953 the Bulgarian patriarchate, which had been disbanded in 1946, was reestablished. |
 | | In 1994, the Socialist party (formerly the Communists) and its allies won a parliamentary majority at the polls, and Zhan Videnov, a Socialist, became premier early in 1995. |
 | | In the parlimentary elections of 2001, the National Movement for Simeon II, a party sponsored by the former king, captured 43% of the vote and half the seats, and Simeon became premier. |
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