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Culture of Bulgaria. Bulgarian traditional dance. A man from Florence, 1888 Renaissance-style painting by Konstantin Velichkov. A number of ancient civilizations, including the Thracians, ancient Greeks, Scythians, Celts, ancient Romans, Goths (Ostrogoths and Visigoths), Slavs (East and West Slavs), Varangians and the Bulgars have left their ...
Golden Age of medieval Bulgarian culture (12 P) H. Bulgarian heraldry (1 C) Cultural history of Bulgaria (4 C, 1 P) L. Languages of Bulgaria (6 C, 10 P)
The fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire to the Ottomans in 1396 was a serious blow for Bulgarian literature and culture in general. Literary activity largely ceased, being concentrated in the monasteries that established themselves as centres of Bulgarian culture in the foreign empire.
Although legacy indicating ancient Bulgar culture is at most virtually absent in modern Bulgarian culture, some authors claim there is a similarity between the dress and customs of the Chuvashes, who descend from the Volga Bulgars, and the Bulgarian ethnographic group Kapantsi from Targovishte Province and Razgrad Province, among whom the claim ...
Bulgaria has made numerous contributions to space exploration. [279] These include two scientific satellites, more than 200 payloads and 300 experiments in Earth orbit, as well as two cosmonauts since 1971. [279] Bulgaria was the first country to grow wheat in space with its Svet greenhouses on the Mir space station.
Traditional Bulgarian pogača (left) and a pile of mekitsi with jam (right) Pita. Sweet pita. Pita with meat – variably with mushrooms or with tomatoes and onion. Pogača (usual ritual bread) Kravai (usual ritual bread) Kolach (usual ritual bread) Banitsa – the most popular pastry in Bulgaria with a number of varieties.
Today, this holiday is celebrated every year on 24 May (new style) and is an official holiday of Bulgaria since 1990. [1] In 2020, the name was changed to Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic literature. Cyril and Methodius had been saints since the 9th century, and ...
Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi) and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna.