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		The history of Bulgaria as a separate country began in the 7th century with the arrival of the Bulgars and the foundation of the First Bulgarian Empire together with the local seven Slavic tribes, a union recognized by Byzantium in 681.
		The Ottomans reorganised the Bulgarian territories as the Beyerlik of Rumili, ruled by a Beylerbey at Sofia.
		Bulgarian nationalism emerged in the early 19th century under the influence of western ideas such as liberalism and nationalism, which trickled into the country after the French Revolution, mostly via Greece.
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	History of Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under Peter I and Boris II the country was divided by the egalitarian religious heresy of the Bogomils, and distracted by wars with the Hungarians to the north and the breakaway state of Serbia to the west.
		Bulgarian national feeling began to revive in the early 19th century under the influence of western ideas such as liberalism and nationalism, which trickled into the country after the French revolution, mostly via Greece.
		Resistance to the Germans and the Bulgarian regime was widespread by 1943, co-ordinated mainly by the Communists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Bulgaria (6248 words)

	Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bulgarian state was crushed by an assault by the Rus in 969 and completely subdued by a determined Byzantine assault under Basil II in 1018.
		According to the 2001 census, Bulgaria's population is mainly ethnic Bulgarian (83.9%), with two sizable minorities in the form of Turks (9.4%) and Roma (4.7%).
		In the 16th and the 17th century missionaries from the Vatican converted the Bulgarian Paulicians in the districts of Plovdiv and Svishtov to Roman Catholicism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulgaria (1635 words)

	The Second Bulgarian Empire and Ottomans Rule, Bulgaria History
		In 1040, Peter Delyan, grandson of Samuel was proclaimed Bulgarian tsar in Belgrade (present capital of Serbia).
		In 1185, the noble brothers Ivan Asen and Peter led the Bulgarians in a revolt against the oppressive Byzantine rule and established the second Bulgarian Empire (1185 - 1396).
		In 1186 Ivan Asen (John I Asen II) was crowned tsar in the new Bulgarian capital, the town of Veliko Turnovo.
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		In 968 Svyatoslav of Kiev was hired for 1,800 pounds of Byzantine gold to raid the north-eastern Bulgarian lands with an army of 60 000 soldiers.
		Scared by the loss of the northern territories, the Bulgarian palace aristocracy overthrew incapacitated tsar Peter (rules 927 - 970), sent him to a monastery and gave the throne to his son - tsar Boris II (rules 970 - 971).
		Given its position in the Balkans, the Bulgarian kingdom was exposed to threats from the south, the north-east and the north-west.
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	AllRefer.com - Ivan II (Bulgarian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		On the death (1207) of his father, Kaloyan, founder of the second Bulgarian empire, the throne was usurped by Ivan's cousin Boril.
		Under Ivan II the Bulgarian empire reached its zenith, becoming the strongest power in the Balkans; he added Macedonia, Epirus, and much of Albania and Serbia to his lands.
		He restored the autonomy of the Bulgarian church, established a central administration, and encouraged the settlement of Ragusan merchants.
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	Bulgaria Ottoman Rule
		The Ottoman Empire was founded in the early fourteenth century by Osman I, a prince of Asia Minor who began pushing the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire westward toward Constantinople.
		Bulgarians in such centers were forcibly resettled as part of a policy to scatter the potentially troublesome educated classes.
		Notable Bulgarian uprisings against the Ottomans occurred in the 1590s, the 1680s and the 1730s; all sought to take advantage of external crises of the empire, and all were harshly suppressed.
	www.country-studies.com /bulgaria/ottoman-rule.html (873 words)

	Bulgaria and the Eastern Question
		In spite of Bulgarian sympathy for national liberation movements nearby, and although the ideals of those movements permeated the Balkans from 1804 on, the anarchy of the early 1800s confined expression of Bulgarian national feeling primarily to the cultural realm until the 1860s.
		Bulgarian hostility towards the Russian army, refusal to build a strategic railway for the Russians through Bulgaria, and poor relations between Prince Alexander and Tsar Alexander III of Russia all contributed to increasing alienation.
		The Bulgarians, having had the greatest military success, demanded compensation on that basis; the Serbs and Greeks demanded adjustment of the 1912 treaty of alliance to ensure a balance of Balkan powers; and the Romanians demanded territorial reward for their neutral position in the first war.
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	b. The First Bulgarian Empire. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Sevar, during whose reign the peace with the empire was maintained.
		Until the very end of his reign he maintained peace with the empire, until further domestic disorders gave the signal for Byzantine attacks (from 755 on).
		He was defeated at Anchialus by the Byzantines (763) and put to death by the Bulgarians.
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	Bulgaria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most of the population belongs to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church; in 1953 the Bulgarian patriarchate, which had been disbanded in 1946, was reestablished.
		The first Bulgarian empire (681–1018), established by Khan Asparuhk, or Isperikh (ruled 680–701), and his successor, Terrel (ruled 701–718), soon emerged as a significant Balkan power and a threat to Byzantium.
		The first Bulgarian empire reached its height under Simeon I (893–927), who took the title of czar.
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	Relations of the Byzantine Empire with the Bulgarians and Magyars - by Al. Vasilief
		During the period which elapsed between the death of Leo VI and the death of Simeon the Bulgarian in 927 there was almost continuous warfare between the Empire and Bulgaria, and Simeon very definitely strove to conquer Constantinople.
		The Bulgarian rebellion, which broke out against the Empire in about the middle of the eleventh century under the leadership of Peter Delyan, was suppressed and resulted in the nullification of Bulgarian autonomy.
		According to an Austrian historian, the downfall of the Bulgarian Kingdom in 1018 belongs among the most important and decisive events of the eleventh century, and of the Middle Ages in general.
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	All Bulgaria Virtual Guide - The History of this Bulgarian Land
		The First Bulgarian Kingdom was centred at Pliska and ruled over a Danubian state that stretched from the Carpathians in the north to the Balkan Range in the south.
		In 1396 the country was completely occupied which put an end to the medieval Bulgarian state and Bulgaria entered five centuries of "darkness" under the Turkish yoke.
		In northern Bulgaria and the Rhodopes some Bulgarians succumbed to forced Islamicization and, as converts gained rights denied to the Christian Rayah, notably exemption from the "blood tax" or devshirme, whereby the oldest boys were taken from their families and indoctrinated before joining the elite Ottoman janissary corps.
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	The Economy and Economic History of Bulgaria
		The Bulgars were able to gain political recognition from the Byzantine Empire in 681 A.D. From the east with their capital at Pliska the Bulgarians gained territory to the west as far the Adriatic Sea and as far north as Belgrade.
		In particular, the Tsar of the Russian assumed the role of protector of the Christian populations in the Balkan portion of the Ottoman Empire.
		The leaders of the Russian Empire were perturbed with Bulgaria's defiance of its advice and the destruction of the possibility of a Balkan alliance.
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	CER \| Bulgaria: Past, Present and a Multiethnic Future
		All Bulgarian boys in it were kidnapped from their families and had been forced to convert to Islam at the age of five to seven years.
		The Bulgarian land reform at the end of the 19th century was long a model of equity and the formation of a smallholders' middle class.
		The Bulgarian government encountered a series of setbacks and, in practice, abstained from the implementation of agrarian reform in the northeast and southeast because the Turkish army did not withdraw from these districts in accordance with San Stefano agreement (1878).
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	g. The Second Bulgarian Empire. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Following the collapse of the First Bulgarian Empire in 1018, Bulgaria was, for 168 years, an integral part of the Byzantine Empire.
		The replacement of taxation in kind with taxation in cash, and other grievances, led to a serious revolt in 1040, led by Peter Delyan, a son of Gabriel Radomir, that was confined to the northwest and western parts of the former empire.
		The collapse of the Byzantine Empire gave Kalojan an excellent opportunity to reaffirm his dominion.
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	boys clothing: European royalty--Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396) was created when two brothers, Asen and Peter, led a general uprising against Byzantium.
		The modern Bulgarian state originated with the defeat of Ottoman Turk forces by the Russian Army and Bulgarian volunteers in 1878-79.
		Some of the Bulgarian populated areas controlled by the Ottomans were united with the Principality after a popular insurection in 1885.
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	Early Settlement and Empire - Bulgarian Reformation - Bringing the Reformation to Bulgaria!
		The First Bulgarian Empire was able to defeat the Byzantine Empire in 811 and expand its territory eastward to the Black Sea, south to include Macedonia, and northwest to present-day Belgrade (see fig.
		Bulgaria remained economically dependent on the Byzantine Empire, and the widespread Bogomil heresy (see Glossary) opposed the secular Bulgarian state and its political ambitions as work of the devil.
		Although the Bulgarians expanded their territory again briefly under Tsar Samuil at the end of the tenth century, in 1014 the Byzantines under Basil II inflicted a major military loss.
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	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453).
		The abyss of the deep was laid open; various types of marine creatures could be seen stuck in the slime, and huge mountains and valleys which had been hidden since the creation in the depths of the waves then, one must suppose, saw the light of the sun for the first time.
		By the settlement with the Crusaders, Venice was ceded 3/8 of the Empire, and the Doge henceforth styled himself quartae partis et dimidiae totius imperii Romaniae Dominator ("Lord of a quarter and a half [of a quarter] of the whole Empire of Romania").
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	Bulgaria Property Investments, Buy Real Estate Property in Bulgaria, Bansko Properties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The shape of these luxury villas and apartments is designed with traditional Bulgarian monastery style, blended with a modern chic edge, cobbled alleys with plenty of greenery and decorative water features.
		Forum Residence in Sunny Beach is ideally located in the southern part of the famous resort, approximately 50 m from the beach and within walking distance from Nessebar, well connected via a regular tourist train that conveniently stops throughout the complex.
		The cozy closed complex "Sea Sun" is located near the most famous Bulgarian resort "Sunny Beach" right next to the sea coast and in the same time in the foot of Balkan Mountains- n exceptional combination of sea and mountain climate.
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	World History 600- 700 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the battle of Nineveh, the forces of Heraclius (the Byzantine Emperor), defeated the forces of the Sassanid Empire.
		The first Bulgarian Empire was created when the Bulgars defeated the Byzantines.
		The Bulgarian Empire was in constant conflict with the Byzantine Empire.
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	Bulgaria -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first Bulgarian empire (681-1018), established by Khan Asparuhk, or Isperikh (ruled 680-701), and his successor, Terrel (ruled 701-718), soon emerged as a significant Balkan power and a threat to Byzantium.
		The first Bulgarian empire reached its height under Simeon I (893-927), who took the title of czar.
		The second Bulgarian empire (1186-1396) rose in 1186 when Ivan Asen (Ivan I) was crowned czar at Veliko Tŭrnovo.
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	THE MEDIÆVAL SERBIAN EMPIRE
		Two powerful Bulgarian monarchs, Krum and the Tsar Symeon, in 8I3 and 9I3 threatened the very existence of Constantinople, as did the Tsar Ferdinand in 1913; and Krum was wont to pledge his nobles out of the silver-set skull of the Greek Emperor Nikephoros I, whom he had slain in battle.
		This was the time of the great Bulgarian Tsar Samuel, under whom Bulgaria stretched to the Adriatic; and Durazzo, the key of the Western Balkans, as Byzantine statesmen considered it, became a Bulgarian port.
		The complete destruction of the first Bulgarian Empire by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, " the Bulgar-slayer," in 10I8, removed the danger of a Bulgarian hegemony in the Balkans, and made the Danube again the frontier of the Byzantine dominions, which surrounded on three sides the Serbian lands.
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	The Empire of Samuil
		At the close of the 9th century, Pope Gregory V heralded and blessed Samuil as a king, and the empire of the youngest son of the Komitadji Nikola acquired international recognition and character.
		In addition, Samuil represented a new imperial dynasty, the empire was founded on a new state and legal basis, with new twin capitals at Prespa and Ohrid, and with a precisely defined core centered around Macedonia and the Macedonian Slavs as the fundamental element of the new empire.
		All of this points to the fact that Samuil's empire was not merely a continuation of the First Bulgarian Empire recently shattered by Byzantium, but a new political entity which emerged independently.
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	The Second Bulgarian Empire and Turkish Rule
		The Bulgarian armies were decisively defeated by the Serbs in 1330, and for the next quarter century the second empire was little more than a dependency of Serbia.
		Paissy's history is regarded as the beginning of the National Revival that was marked by the rapid expansion of Bulgarian schools and by the achievement of an independent Bulgarian Orthodox Exarchate in 1870.
		In 1876 the Bulgarians revolted against the Ottomans, but were quelled; in reprisal, the Ottomans massacred an estimated 30,000 Bulgarian men, women, and children.
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		As the Roman Empire weakened and was reorganised into East and West, the provinces of Moesia (which broadly cover the area of modern Bulgaria) came to be governed from Constantinople.
		The Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV attempted to beat the invaders back but was defeated and forced to cede the Bulgars under their khan Asparukh the territory north of the Balkan Mountains (which run East-West across the centre of the modern state).
		Krum continued to attack the empire and his victory in a battle near Adrianople in 813 AD led to the downfall of a third basileus.
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	Bulgaria Info Bulgarian Map Properties
		The Assembly in Oborishte held on 14 April (old style) 1876 made the historic decision to announce the April Uprising, having all grounds to be considered the precursor of the Bulgarian National Assembly and parliamentarianism in Bulgaria.
		The national flag of the Republic of Bulgaria shall be hoisted on the Bulgarian diplomatic and consular missions and shall be placed on the transport vehicles of the Bulgarian diplomatic and consular missions under the terms envisaged by the international treaties and customs.
		The national flag of the Republic of Bulgaria shall be hoisted in the units of the Bulgarian army and on the vessels of the Naval fleet according to the military statutes.
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	4 Hotel Reservations Sofia - Accoomodation in Sofia
		The Slavs gave Sredets a key role in the First Bulgarian Empire, then in 1018 the Byzantines retook Triaditsa.
		At the end of the 12th century, the Bulgarians returned and Sredets became a major trading center of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
		The city declined during the feudal unrest of the 19th century, but with the establishment of the Third Bulgarian Empire in 1879, Sofia once again became the capital of Bulgaria.
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	Modern History Sourcebook: Edward Dicey: Bulgarian Political Attitudes, 1894
		Whatever may be the real truth about the Bulgarian atrocities, it is obvious that they have left behind no such bitter resentment in the minds of a people, slow to forgive or forget injuries, as to render the idea of cooperation with Turkey distasteful to the national sentiment.
		What the Bulgarians most desire at heart is to preserve their independence, and to be governed by their own people, according to their own ideas, customs, and sentiments.
		It is because this ideal is consistent with the maintenance of Turkey in Europe, and inconsistent with the establishment of Russia upon the Bosphorus, that the settled policy of the Bulgarian Government is to uphold the status quo in Eastern Europe.
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