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 Bulgaria, Land of Heroes). MONETARY UNIT: The lev (LV) of 100...

Bulgaria POPULATION 7,928,901 EASTERN ORTHODOX 82.6 percent MUSLIM 12.2 percent ROMAN CATHOLIC 0.6 percent PROTESTANT 0.5 percent OTHER 4.1 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Bulgaria, situated in southeastern Europe, is bordered by...

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) of land. The total population is about 7.85 million...

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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 its work in April after a law passed in late 2006 forced open the pre-1989 communist-era secret service...

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 businessman's head and body as he stepped out of his car.In this poor...

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 life.The EU is letting Bulgaria join largely because of its...

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 problems with the status of the medics that returned from Libya," Prosecutor General Boris Velchev told...