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After a Communist takeover in 1945, Bulgaria was a Soviet ally during the Cold War, and maintained good relationships with Russia until the Revolutions of 1989, the only major period since independence where Russia had better relations with Bulgaria than with Serbia; or rather in this case Tito's Yugoslavia.
First Bulgarian-Byzantine War (680-792) Bulgarian Empire: Byzantine Empire: Victory. Formation and expansion of the First Bulgarian Empire; Siege of Constantinople (717–718) Bulgarian Empire: Umayyad Caliphate: Victory: First Bulgarian-Serbian War (839-842) Bulgarian Empire: Serbian Principality: Defeat: Second Bulgarian-Serbian War 853 ...
The Battle of Sofia (Bulgarian: Битката при София) was the culmination of Russian General Iosif Gurko's Western Squad for the defeat of the Orhaniye army in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). It led to the Liberation of Sofia from Turkish rule. Gen. Iosif Gurko
The Battle of Bazargic, also known as the Battle of Dobrich or the Dobrich epopee (Bulgarian: Добричка епопея), (Russian: Битва при Добриче), took place between 5 and 7 September 1916 between a joint Bulgarian–German-Ottoman force, consisting mainly of the Bulgarian Third Army, and a Romanian–Russian force, including a Division of Serbian Volunteers serving ...
Having its reputation at stake, Russia declared war on the Ottomans in April 1877. The Bulgarians also fought alongside the advancing Russians. Russia established a provisional government in Bulgaria. The Russian army and the Bulgarian Opalchentsi decisively defeated the Ottomans at Shipka Pass and Pleven. By January 1878 they had liberated ...
See Bulgaria–Russia relations. Bulgaria has an embassy in Moscow and three consulates general in Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. [232] Russia has an embassy in Sofia and consulates generals in Ruse and Varna. [233] Russia was the first country to recognize Bulgaria, and greatly helped Bulgaria in its war of independence from ...
The Gothic Bible—the first Germanic language book—was created by Gothic bishop Ulfilas in what is today northern Bulgaria around 381. [37] The region came under Byzantine control after the fall of Rome in 476. The Byzantines were engaged in prolonged warfare against Persia and could not defend their Balkan territories from barbarian ...
With Bulgaria becoming part of the Eastern bloc following World War II, a number of Russians emigrated to the country. [9] Today, foreign (including Russian) businessmen living in Bulgaria are eligible for Bulgarian passport under specific conditions (such as investing over $250,000 or running a business, and having a clean slate). [9]