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Bulgari
Bulgari (BVLGARI), Italian luxury jewelry and watch house founded in Rome in 1884 by Greek silversmith Sotirio Bulgari; known for Serpenti, B.zero1, Octo; LVMH-owned since 2011.
Bulgaria (България)
Bulgaria (България), southeastern European parliamentary democracy in the Balkans with capital Sofia; EU member since 2007, NATO since 2004, adopted the euro 1 January 2026 as the 21st eurozone member; high-income since July 2024.
Bulgaria during World War I
Bulgaria in World War I: the Tsardom of Bulgaria (Kingdom of Bulgaria), which joined the Central Powers in October 1915 to reverse the Second Balkan War settlement, fought on the Macedonian Front until the Dobro Pole breakthrough and the Armistice of Salonika of 29 September 1918.
Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Bulgaria at Eurovision 2026: DARA (Darina Yotova) won with "Bangaranga", 516 points, Bulgaria's first victory and record 173-point margin, after the Natsionalnata Selektsiya national final; Burgas hosts 2027.
Bulgaria national football team
Bulgaria national football team (BUL, 'the Lions'), men's team run by the Bulgarian Football Union since 1924; seven World Cups, best finish fourth at USA 1994 after beating Germany 2-1, Stoichkov top scorer and 1994 Ballon d'Or winner.
Bulgaria–Romania relations
Bulgaria–Romania relations: bilateral ties between two lower-Danube, Black Sea neighbours; 1879 diplomatic relations, 1940 Treaty of Craiova, 1992 friendship treaty, joint NATO 2004 and EU 2007 accession, 2023 strategic partnership, 9.71 billion euro 2024 trade.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgarska akademiya na naukite, BAS/BAN), Bulgaria's national autonomous research organization, founded 1869 in Braila as the Bulgarian Literary Society, renamed 1911, headquartered in Sofia with nine research divisions.
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Bulgarian: Български земеделски народен съюз, BZNS) was a peasant party founded in 1899 that ruled Bulgaria under Aleksandŭr Stamboliyski from 1919 to 1923.
Bulgarian agrarian reform of 1921
A 1921 Bulgarian land redistribution law passed under Aleksandar Stamboliyski's agrarian government, capping private landholdings and transferring surplus, state, and monastery land to landless peasants.
Bulgarian Air Force
Bulgarian Air Force (Военновъздушни сили), Bulgaria's air warfare branch and NATO member since 2004; flies MiG-29 air policing and is replacing Soviet jets with F-16 Block 70s delivered from April 2025.
Bulgarian alphabet
The Bulgarian alphabet is a 30-letter Cyrillic script used for Bulgarian, a South Slavic language spoken by roughly 12 million people. It marks the 45 sounds of the language.
Bulgarian children's literature
Bulgarian children's literature is the body of writing for children in Bulgaria, rooted in the 19th-century National Revival and shaped by Enlightenment ideas and national liberation from Ottoman rule.
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (БКП) was the communist party that ruled the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989, becoming the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 1990.
Bulgarian coup d'état of 1886
The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1886 was the seizure of Prince Alexander I of Battenberg by pro-Russian Bulgarian officers on 9 August, reversed days later by a loyalist counter-coup led by Stefan Stambolov.
Bulgarian coup d'état of 1923
The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1923, also known as the 9 June coup (Деветоюнски преврат), overthrew the elected Agrarian government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski on June 9, 1923.
Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934
The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934 was a bloodless military overthrow on 19 May 1934, staged by Zveno and the Military League, which brought Kimon Georgiev to power.
Bulgarian Crisis (1885–1888)
The Bulgarian Crisis (1885–1888) was the crisis opened by Bulgaria's union with Eastern Rumelia in 1885, running through the Serbo-Bulgarian War and the fall of Prince Alexander I.
Bulgarian dialects
Bulgarian dialects (български диалекти) are regional varieties of Bulgarian, divided into eastern and western groups by the yat isogloss, with Moesian, Balkan, Rup, northwestern, and southwestern subgroups, documented in the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas.
Bulgarian Exarchate
The Bulgarian Exarchate (Българска екзархия) was the autonomous national church of Orthodox Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire, created by Sultan Abdülaziz's firman of 1870 and seated in Constantinople.
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian (Български език) is a South Slavic language spoken by about 7 million people and the official language of Bulgaria, written in a 30-letter Cyrillic alphabet since 1945.
Bulgarian lev
The Bulgarian lev (BGN) was the national currency of Bulgaria, pegged at 1.95583 per euro under a currency board from 1997 until Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026.
Bulgarian National Bank
The Bulgarian National Bank (Българска народна банка) is the central bank of Bulgaria, which ran the lev under a currency board until adopting the euro in 2026.
Bulgarian olympic committee
Bulgarian Olympic Committee (Български олимпийски комитет, BOC), Bulgaria's national Olympic committee, founded March 30, 1923, IOC-recognized 1924; disbanded 1944, restored 1951; current president Vesela Lecheva.
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Българска православна църква) is the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church of Bulgaria, recognized in 870 and among the oldest Slavic Orthodox churches.
Bulgarian Patriarchate of Tarnovo
The Bulgarian Patriarchate of Tarnovo (Търновска патриаршия) was the autocephalous church of the Second Bulgarian Empire, seated in Tarnovo from 1235 until the Ottoman conquest in 1393.
Bulgarian refugee crisis (1912–1926)
The Bulgarian refugee crisis (1912–1926) was the influx of about 280,000 refugees, mostly ethnic Bulgarians, into Bulgaria after the Balkan Wars, the First World War, and border changes.
Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II
The Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II was the armed and political opposition to Bulgaria's pro-Axis government from 1941 to 1944, led mainly by communists.
Bulgarian Revival literature
Bulgarian Revival literature (българска възрожденска литература) is the secular literature of the Bulgarian National Revival, spanning Paisiy Hilendarski's Istoriya Slavyanobulgarska of 1762 to the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War.
Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (Български революционен централен комитет, BRCC) was the central organization of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement, founded in Bucharest in 1869 with Lyuben Karavelov as chairman.
Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee
The Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee (БТЦРК) was a clandestine organization founded in Plovdiv in 1885, chaired by Zachary Stoyanov, to prepare the union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria.