The heart of Bulgaria is the Thracian plain, trapped between the Balkan Mountain range to the north and the Rhodope Mountains to the south. It was one of the most important granaries of the Roman Empire, a rich agricultural area the size of the State [...]

The territories of Bulgaria became part of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC. The Romans conquered all parts of the Mediterranean ancient world and large parts of Europe (a quarter of the world's population). They conquered the Balkans in the 2nd century BC, [...]

“Slavic” means "word" in the ancient Slavic language, and hence the "Slavs" are people speaking the same language, as opposed to foreigners who are called "people without a language". Today there are close to 300 million Slavs in the world, divided into three groups: Southern [...]

Bulgaria was under brutal Byzantine occupation for nearly 200 years, from the defeat of Tsar Samuel in 1014 to the rebellion of the Asen brothers in 1185. Samuel was one of the Cometopuli brothers - four Maccabee style brothers who fought for the independence of [...]

In the 11th century, the Turkish tribes migrated to the Anatolian peninsula, defeated the Byzantines in the Battle of Manzikat (1071), and established small kingdoms throughout the country. In the 13th century, a small Turkish state led by Ottoman I was established around the Sea [...]

The Bulgarians gained independence after a rebellion and a terrible war that took place in 1877–1878 between Russia, the Bulgarian rebels, and the Ottoman Empire. The beginning was a few years earlier, with the establishment of the movement for the liberation of Bulgaria, led by [...]