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Bulgaria, [a] officially the Republic of Bulgaria, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north.
The Bulgarian political crisis is a period of instability in Bulgaria, which has seen the country face seven parliamentary elections over four years: April 2021, July 2021, November 2021, October 2022, April 2023, June 2024 and October 2024.
This is a list of sovereign states in the 2020s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 2020 and the present day.It contains 210 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty.
Bulgaria was involved in computer construction, which earned it the nickname "Silicon Valley of the Eastern Bloc". [25] Bulgarian engineers developed the first Bulgarian computer, the Vitosha, [26] as well as the Pravetz computers. [27] Bulgaria is currently the only Balkan Country to operate a supercomputer, an IBM Blue Gene/P.
Between 1997 and 2001, much of the success of the Ivan Kostov government was due to Foreign Minister Nadezhda Mihaylova, who had huge approval and support in Bulgaria and abroad. Ivan Kostov came to power in May 1997 after months of popular discontent and hyperinflation. Petar Stoyanov was the second democratically elected president of Bulgaria ...
The History of Bulgaria (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) (2011) excerpt and text search; complete text Archived 2020-02-15 at the Wayback Machine; Crampton, R.J. Bulgaria (Oxford History of Modern Europe) (1990) excerpt and text search; also complete text online. Crampton, R.J. A Concise History of Bulgaria (2005) excerpt and ...
Location of Bulgaria (dark green) Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the
Bulgaria's fourth parliamentary elections in less than two years will be held on October 2, 2022. [36] In April 2023, because of the political deadlock, Bulgaria held its fifth parliamentary election since April 2021. GERB was the biggest, winning 69 seats. The bloc led by We Continue the Change won 64 seats in the 240-seat parliament.