Thracian Religion
THRACIAN RELIGION. In ancient Greece the name Thrakes referred to most of the inhabitants of the northeastern Balkan Peninsula. Their neighbors to the east were the Scythians; to the...
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Thracian Rider
THRACIAN RIDER. The so-called Thracian Rider, a demigod who was the focus of a cult in ancient Thrace, is known principally from sculptures and inscriptions dating from the fourth centu...
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Sofia (dpa) - On arriving at Sofia's airport, a visitor's nose
informs him that the Bulgarian capital has problems with processing
its garbage.
Wind often car...
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Sofia (dpa) - On arriving at Sofia's airport, a visitor's nose
informs him that the Bulgarian capital has problems with processing
its garbage.
Wind often car...
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Oct 22 (Reuters) - Envoys mediating in talks in Vienna on
the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo will try to
stop them immediately coming to a standstill on the independence
issue, a ...
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Nov 15 (Reuters) - The breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo
holds its third postwar election on Saturday for a parliament
threatening to declare independence after negotiations with
Serbia end nex...
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Dec 9 (Reuters) - EU leaders are expected to agree this week
that efforts to reach a negotiated solution to the Kosovo
problem are exhausted, and offer to take responsibility for
security and just...
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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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Thracian Religion
NEWS FEATURE: Bulgarian capital sinks deeper in its own garbage
