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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 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 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.
Bulgarian Social Democratic Party
The Bulgarian Social Democratic Party (Българска социалдемократическа партия, BSDP) is a Bulgarian social-democratic party founded on Buzludzha peak on 2 August 1891 and revived by seven social democrats in November 1989.
Bulgarian unification
The Bulgarian unification (Съединението) of 6 September 1885 merged the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia with the Principality of Bulgaria, proclaimed in Plovdiv despite Russian opposition.
Bulgarians (българи)
Bulgarians (българи): South Slavic nation of Bulgaria, 84.6% of 2021 census respondents; formed from Bulgar, Slavic, and Thracian merger; state founded 681; diaspora in the Balkans.
Bulgars
The Bulgars were Turkic-speaking steppe people driven north of the Sea of Azov by the Khazars in the 7th century; their branches founded Danube Bulgaria (681) and Volga Bulgaria (capital Bolghar), and gave modern Bulgarians their name.
Bulge bracket
Bulge bracket is informal investment banking jargon for the largest full-service global investment banks, whose names appeared in the largest type on tombstone ads announcing new security issues; membership is convention, with no exact revenue cut-off.
Bull Connor
Bull Connor (Theophilus Eugene Connor, 1897-1973), Birmingham, Alabama commissioner of public safety for 22 years, ordered police dogs and fire hoses against 1963 civil rights demonstrators, spurring the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
The Bull Headed Lyre of Ur, also called the Great Lyre, is a gold and lapis bull-headed lyre from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, held by the Penn Museum.
Bull Palette
The Bull Palette is a fragmentary greywacke ceremonial cosmetic palette from late Predynastic Egypt, about 3200 to 3100 BC, decorated with a bull trampling a defeated man and now in the Louvre.
Bull-and-horseman coinage
Bull-and-horseman coinage (बुल-ए-अस्प) is a North Indian coin type showing a bull, usually Nandi, and a horseman, first issued by the Hindu Shahi kings of Gandhara and Kabul.
Bull-and-horseman jital
The bull-and-horseman jital (سوار و گاؤ جیتل) is a billon coin of medieval north India and Afghanistan, first minted by the Hindu Shahi kings at Lahore and adopted by many states.
Bulla of Baruch son of Neriah
The bulla of Baruch son of Neriah is an unprovenanced clay seal impression naming Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu, the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah, dated to about 586 BC.
Bulla of Hezekiah
The Bulla of Hezekiah is a clay seal impression reading "Belonging to Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah", found in Jerusalem's Ophel in 2015.
Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club is an exclusive all-male dining society for Oxford students, founded in 1780 as a cricket club.
Bullpen Capital
Bullpen Capital is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Paul Martino, Duncan Davidson, and Richard Melmon, specializing in post-seed investing between seed and Series A rounds.
Bullshit
Bullshit: vulgar English word for nonsense or insincere talk, also a verb meaning to deceive with untruths; abbreviated BS. Etymology disputed (M-W 1908, Etymonline 1914); central to Frankfurt's On Bullshit and modern LLM research.
Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber, developed from his 2013 essay, on paid work so pointless that even workers cannot justify it, sorted into five types.