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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 ]
BehindTheName.com - Bulgarian names, A website dedicated to Bulgarian names and their etymology and meaning(s). BehindTheName.com - The Bulgarian name days; In Bulgarian: (in Bulgarian) Bulgarian names, 400 most popular names, origin, meaning and name days calendar (in Bulgarian) List of Slavic Bulgarian names
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 ...
The vast majority of them have either Christian (names like Lazar, Ivan, Anna, Maria, Ekaterina) or Slavic origin (Vladimir, Svetoslav, Velislava). After the Liberation in 1878, the names of historical Bulgar rulers like Asparuh, Krum, Kubrat and Tervel were resurrected. The Bulgar name Boris has spread from Bulgaria to a number of countries in ...
The old Bulgarian name for Sofia, Sredets, was also derived from Sardica (Serdica). Some names of Romance origin date to later times and are ascribed to the Balkan Latin population, several examples being Vakarel, Pasarel, Banishor, Gurgulyat. Other placenames
Named after the city of Vidin, from the ancient Celtic [35] name Dononia, "fortified hill", through Roman Bononia and finally Bulgarian Bdin, Badin. The name is most likely derived from the Slavic word for viewpoint Vidik which creates a parallel with Dononia for a fortified hill. [34] Bologna: Vratsa Province: Slavic 16th century [citation needed]
The Helsinki Accords was signed by Bulgaria, giving citizens more freedom. 1989: 10 November: Communists in the government are replaced by democracy supporters. 1990: 3 April: Bulgaria is no longer a communist state and was renamed to the Republic of Bulgaria. [2] 1995: Zhan Videnov took office after the angry reactions against a reform on the ...
The etymology of the ethnonym Bulgar is not completely understood and difficult to trace back earlier than the 4th century AD. [19] [20] Since the work of Tomaschek (1873), [21] it is generally said to be derived from Proto-Turkic root *bulga-[22] ("to stir", "to mix"; "to become mixed"), which with the consonant suffix -r implies a noun meaning "mixed".