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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.
After World War Two it became a satellite of the Soviet Union, but is now a member of the EU and Nato. Read more country profiles - Profiles by BBC Monitoring REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA: FACTS
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.
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System : 193 UN member states , [ 1 ] two UN General Assembly non-member observer ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Bulgaria was the first country to recognize North Macedonia and the second to open an embassy. The rules governing good neighbourly relations agreed between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia were set in the Joint Declaration of February 22, 1999 , reaffirmed by a joint memorandum signed on January 22, 2008, in Sofia.