Descendants of the medieval Bulgars and Slavs, Bulgarians form the ethnic majority in Bulgaria. The Slavs settled in the Balkans in the sixth to seventh century CE, absorbing the indigenous Hellenized Thracians. They lived in tribes and farming...

Bulgaria is a small country on the east coast of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its land area is approximately 42,823 square miles, or 110,550 square kilometers, making it slightly larger than the state of Tennessee. It boasts a varied...

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TO BULGARIA falls the distinction of providing the most broad-based example of ethnic hostility to be seen among any of the erstwhile Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe in their brief liberation. Having in the main freed themselves from outside Soviet repression, Bulgarians have launched...

The Bulgarians are conquering the chess world. They have three world champions: Veselin Topalov, Antoaneta Stefanova among women and Liuben Spassov among seniors. Last week, another Bulgarian grandmaster, Kiril Georgiev, overpowered a strong field of 125 players and won the Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar....

The spiritual leader of Bulgaria's Orthodox Christians on Saturday called for a "just verdict" in the case of six medics sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting about 400 children with HIV.Thousands of people, some holding banners reading "You are not alone," attended a...

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court Tuesday on charges they deliberately infected hundreds of children with the AIDS virus. The verdict can be appealed.Judge Mahmoud Hawissa read out the verdict at a seven-minute hearing...