Bulgaria
Republic of Bulgaria
Republika Bulgariya
CAPITAL: Sofia (Sofiya)
FLAG: The flag is a tricolor of white, green, and red horizontal stripes.
ANTHEM: Bulgariya mila, zemya na geroi (Dear Bulgari...
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria is located in southeastern Europe in the region generally referred to as the Balkans. About the same size as Tennessee, it amounts to 110,912 square kilometers (42,823 square miles) ...
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Bulgaria
POPULATION 7,928,901EASTERN ORTHODOX 82.6 percentMUSLIM 12.2 percentROMAN CATHOLIC 0.6 percentPROTESTANT 0.5 percentOTHER 4.1 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Bulgar...
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Area: 111,002 sq km (42,858 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 7,681,000Capital:
Sofia
Chief of state:
President
Georgi
Purvanov
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Sergey
Stanishev
Bulgarians woul...
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A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files said Tuesday that the country's current president and 19 lawmakers who once collaborated with the secret service.The panel began ...
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Krasimir Dimitrov was headed to lunch with friends at a restaurant on a busy street in Bulgaria's capital. He never made it.A gunman with a silencer pumped several bullets into the wealthy business...
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings _ along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings _ have almost become part of the fabric of everyday...
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Bulgaria on Thursday rejected Libyan protests over the presidential pardons it gave six medical workers freed earlier this week from life imprisonment in the Arab country."There are no legal proble...
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Bulgaria insisted Friday on a speedy appeal for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in an AIDS case in Libya, a case that has triggered outrage in the country.Libya, m...
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