Bulgaria

American  

[buhl-gair-ee-uh, bool-] / bʌlˈgɛər i ə, bʊl- /

noun

1. a republic in SE Europe. 42,800 sq. mi. (110,850 sq. km). Sofia.

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Bulgaria British  

/ bʊl-, bʌlˈɡɛərɪə /

noun

1. a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)

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Bulgaria Cultural  

1. Republic in southeastern Europe in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, bordered by Romania to the north, the Black Sea to the east, Turkey to the southeast, Greece to the south, and Macedonia and Yugoslavia to the west. Its capital and largest city is Sofia.

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Former Eastern Bloc country. Soviet troops entered Bulgaria in 1944, and a communist government was established soon thereafter. Bulgaria's communist rulers followed the Soviet lead for almost fifty years, until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In January 1991, a multiparty government began to institute democratic and economic reforms.

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"TikTok worked without any problems... routing through countries such as Romania or Bulgaria," she said.

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After Bangladesh and Nepal, there has been a groundswell of Gen Z protests globally, felling governments in Madagascar and Bulgaria and unnerving rulers from Morocco to Iran.

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He said people in Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland now tend to support rather than oppose the idea of developing an alternative European nuclear deterrent.

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When Rossana Ivanova came to the U.S. from communist Bulgaria, she didn’t know what stocks and bonds were, or the difference between interest and capital gains.

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Among the Christo works were "Wrapped Oil Barrels", created between 1958–61 shortly after the artist fled communist Bulgaria for Paris.

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