Cinema. – A few months after the first screening in Bulgaria of the Lumière cinema (February 1897), the two operators H. Arnodov and V. Petkov toured the country in search of images. Even if the birth of Bulgarian cinema was…
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In 1988, a new administrative division was established, under which the country comprises 9 districts, which in turn are divided into second-order administrative units. Demographic and social conditions. – The resident population, according to the 1985 census, was 8,948,649 residents…
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Economic planning, which began in 1947, transformed Bulgaria from an eminently agricultural country into a predominantly industrial one. Employees in primary activities fell from 44.3% in 1965 to 42% in 1970, while those in secondary activities increased in the same…
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HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY South-eastern European state, in the north-eastern sector of the Balkan peninsula. The population, which at the 2001 census was equal to 7,932,984 residents, according to a 2005 estimate has dropped to 7,726,000. The demographic decline, which…
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Settled in a region rich in ancient and early Christian monuments, much larger than the territory of the current Bulgaria, the ancient Bulgarian kingdom presents in its artistic and architectural manifestations interesting and problematic links with the late ancient, Sassanid…
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According to Best-medical-schools, the advent of cinema in Bulgaria was more or less contemporaneous with the rest of Eastern Europe, even if the country, an autonomous principality of Bulgaria since 1878, did not yet have a well-defined national configuration, compressed…
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Bulgaria is a state of the ‘ Europe, Southeast Asia, occupying the NE part of the Balkan Peninsula, between Romania (N), Serbia and Macedonia (O), Greece and Turkey (S) and Black Sea (E). Geography The central element in the physical…
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State of south-eastern Europe, located between the lower course of the Danube and the Greek peninsula, on the shores of the Black Sea. The medieval Bulgaria included the northern and central regions of the Balkans, corresponding to the territory previously…
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With the foundation of the Bulgarian kingdom around 679 and its recognition by Byzantium following the peace treaty of 681, the era of the great Migrations in the Balkan peninsula ended, with the ethnic, social and cultural changes it had…
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Extremely varied elements and influences are found in Bulgarian customs and rites: Thracians, Veteroslavs, Byzantines, Romans. Many of the religious holidays and many of the pagan cults were replaced with the rites of the new Christian religion. In them, however,…
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The origins of Bulgarian folk art must be sought from the ancient Proto-Bulgarian Slavs. Gradually this art in its development undergoes the influence of foreign elements: residues of Roman and Hellenic culture, influences of the Byzantine and oriental Christianesimn, later…
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Already in the years preceding the war, Bulgaria, a poor and recently formed country, had had to make extensive use of loans (internal and above all foreign), not only to cover extraordinary expenses, such as construction of roads, railways, ports,…
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Bulgaria The southeast passage between Europe and Asia Typically Balkan region – of passage and mixture between Europe and Asia – Bulgaria has been for centuries in the balance between West and East, between Slavic culture and Turkish culture. The…
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In recent years, Bulgaria has expanded the opportunities for international students. In addition to The American University in Blagoevgrad (AUBG) and The International University in Sofia, several of the major universities offer courses in English. Bulgaria is located on the…
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