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Flag of the Second Bulgarian Empire: Flag according to Angelino Dalorto: c. 1380: Flag of the Second Bulgarian Empire: Flag according to Guillem Soler: 14th century: Flag of the Tsardom of Vidin: 1878–1886: Flag of the Republic of Tamrash: 1903: Flag of the Strandzha Commune: 1879–1908 [1] Flag of the Principality of Bulgaria: A horizontal ...
The new Constitution of Bulgaria, adopted in 1991, describes the Bulgarian flag as follows: Art. 166. The flag of the Republic of Bulgaria shall be a tricolour: white, green and red from top, placed horizontally. [12] A popular version of the flag, which has no official status, is also commonly known.
The history of Bulgaria can be traced from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state, and includes the history of the Bulgarian people and their origin. The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. [ 1 ]
Some historians use the terms Danube Bulgaria, [13] First Bulgarian State, [14] [15] or First Bulgarian Tsardom (Empire). Between 681 and 864 the country is also called by modern historians as the Bulgarian Khanate , [ 16 ] or the Bulgar Khaganate , [ 17 ] from the Turkic title of khan / khagan borne by its rulers.
Flag of Bulgaria. The flag of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: знаме на България, romanized: Zname na Bǎlgarija, [ˈznamɛ nɐ bɐɫˈɡarijɐ]) is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. It was first adopted after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), where
The name Bulgaria is derived from the Bulgars, a tribe of Turkic origin that founded the First Bulgarian Empire. Their name is not completely understood and is difficult to trace it back earlier than the 4th century AD, [ 10 ] but it is possibly derived from the Proto-Turkic word bulģha ("to mix", "shake", "stir") and its derivative bulgak ...
This created a much smaller principality, alongside an autonomous Eastern Rumelia within the Ottoman Empire. In practice, Bulgaria's status as an Ottoman vassal was a legal fiction, and Bulgaria only acknowledged the authority of the Sublime Porte in a formal way. It had its own Constitution, flag and anthem, and conducted its own foreign ...
The Second Bulgarian Empire was a hereditary monarchy ruled by a Tsar—the Bulgarian word for Emperor that originated in the 10th century during the First Bulgarian Empire. The monarchs of Bulgaria styled themselves, "In Christ the Lord Faithful Emperor and Autocrat of all Bulgarians" or variations, sometimes including "...and Romans, Greeks ...