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30 unusual facts about Bulgaria


1952–53 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1952–53 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the second season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1968–69 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1968–69 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 17th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1969–70 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1969–70 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 18th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1994–95 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1994–95 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 43rd season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1996–97 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1996–97 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 45th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1998–99 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1998–99 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 47th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

1999–2000 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 1999-00 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 48th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2002–03 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2002–03 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 51st season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2003–04 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2003–04 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 52nd season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2008–09 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2008–09 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 57th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2009–10 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2009–10 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 58th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2010–11 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2010–11 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 59th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

2011–12 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2011–12 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 60th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

Albanians in Bulgaria

Indeed, the toponym Arbanasi, a village near the city of Tarnovo, is a hint at Albanian settlement in the region.

Arbanasi

Arbanasi, Bulgaria, a historical settlement and touristic attraction in Bulgaria

Batovo

Batovo, Bulgaria, a village in the municipality of Dobrichka in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria

Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II

In the Tran, Rhodopes and Sredna Gora regions, the partisans were a constant threat to the government.

Cherno more

Cherno More is the Bulgarian name of the Black Sea (see: Bulgarian Black Sea Coast)

Dulovo Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dulovo.

Eduard Totleben

The village of Totleben in Pordim municipality, Pleven Province, is named after Eduard Totleben, in honour of his decisive role in the Siege of Plevna of 1877.

Gramada Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Gramada.

Karakachanov

Karakachanov is a Bulgarian family name related to the Sarakatsani.

Kula Municipality, Bulgaria

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Kula.

Newport Arch

It is one of many original Roman arches still open to traffic, other examples being two gates through the city walls of the Roman town of Diocletianopolis (now Hisarya, Bulgaria), as well as numerous examples in Turkey.

Novi Pazar Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Novi Pazar.

Ohrid Literary School

After Clement was ordained bishop of Drembica (Velika) in 893, the position of head of the school was assumed by Naum of Preslav.

Popovo Municipality

It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Popovo.

Shale gas by country

"Fracking" is prohibited by moratorium despite the 30-million-euro contract signed with Chevron for the exploration of shale gas deposits in Novi Pazar.

Vasil Gyuzelev

Gyuzelev was born in the village of Rakovski (today part of Dimitrovgrad) in 1936.

Vetovo Municipality

Since 1992 Vetovo Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Senovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.


2000–01 Bulgarian Hockey League season

The 2000–01 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 49th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria.

Alino, Sofia Province

Alino is a village in Samokov Municipality, Sofia Province, Bulgaria.

Ariana Brewery

The Ariana Brewery is a defunct company, founded in 1884 in Sofia, Bulgaria under the name Sofia Brewery, changing to Ariana in 1996.

Association of Special Fares Agents

The administrative office of ASFA moved in 1998 to Sofia, Bulgaria.

Bashar Lulua

In a 2009 masterclass guided by Maestro Jorma Panula with the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Bashar conducted the first movement of the Resurrection Symphony by Gustav Mahler.

Bulgaria at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Bunovo, Kyustendil Province

Bunovo is a village in Kyustendil Municipality, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria.

Charles Champaud

According to the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, Champaud, a Swiss national living in Bulgaria and working as a gymnastics teacher at a Sofia high school, competed for that country at the first modern Olympics.

Daniel Pancu

After a short spell in Bulgaria at CSKA Sofia, Pancu returned to Romanian football later in 2010 to play for SC Vaslui, but had a difficult time breaking into the first eleven with strong competition from Wesley and Mike Temwanjera.

Deep-water soloing

Tyulenovo and Kamen Bryag are places for Deep Water Soloing in Bulgaria that recently gained popularity among the local climbing society and surrounding countries in Eastern Europe.

Dimitar Agura

With the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, Dimitar Agura arrived in the newly established Principality of Bulgaria and worked as a clerk at the Ministry of Interior (1879–1883).

Dwijen Mukhopadhyay

As a member of ‘Indian Cultural Delegation’, he toured Soviet Union and East European countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

Edward Castronova

It claims, for example, that Norrath has a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria, higher than that of China and India, and that a unit of EverQuest currency is worth more than the Yen or Lira.

Formica aquilonia

Formica aquilonia is a species of wood ant of the genus Formica which are widely distributed in Europe and Asia, occurring from Scandinavia in the north to Bulgaria and Italy in the south, and from the UK eastwards through France and Germany to Russia, while they are also found in the coastal areas of the Sea of Okhotsk in eastern Siberia.

Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

A number of auxiliary chapels were dedicated to the Forty, and there are several instances when an entire temple (church building) is dedicated to them: for example Xiropotamou Monastery on Mount Athos and the 13th-century Holy Forty Martyrs Church, in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

House of Wettin

It was only in the 19th century that one of the many Ernestine branches, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, regained importance as the "stud of Europe", by ascending the thrones of Belgium (in 1831), Portugal (1853-1910), Bulgaria (1908–1946) and the United Kingdom (in 1901).

Internet Society – Bulgaria

ISOC Bulgaria has been actively involved in the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI), headed by George Sadowsky, and has contributed to formation of governmental IT-policy in a number of countries, not only in Bulgaria.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Karamesutlu

It lies on the highway that connects Babaeski to Kırklareli and further extends to Dereköy, the customs with Bulgaria.

Kosovo Campaign Medal

The Air Campaign refers to any flight operations which are performed in the land area and air space of Serbia (including Kosovo), Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as the waters and air space of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, provided such flight operations are in direct support of Kosovo peacekeeping actions.

League of Prizren

The Albanians' fear that the lands they inhabited would be partitioned among Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece fueled the rise of resistance.

Louis-Emil Eyer

In 1894, Eyer and nine other Swiss pedagogues, including Georges de Regibus and Charles Champaud, were invited to Bulgaria by the Minister of Education Georgi Zhivkov to lay the foundations of sports education in the country.

Mario Rizzi

Mario Rizzi (March 3, 1926 – April 13, 2012) was the Roman Catholic Italian titular archbishop of Bagnoregio and apostolic nuncio to Bulgaria 1991-1996.

Mark Aizlewood

His debut came in a 2–1 friendly defeat to Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on 25 February 1986, his last appearance came on 14 December 1994 as Wales lost 3–0 to Bulgaria in a Euro 96 qualifier at Cardiff Arms Park.

Negru Vodă, Constanța

The town is close to the border with Bulgaria and there is a border crossing linking Negru Voda to the Bulgarian village Kardam.

Ochindol

The village contains a monument representing Ivan Vazov's character 'Grandfather Yotso', a symbol of liberation from the Ottoman Empire and the progress of independent Bulgaria.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight from Sacramento, California to Los Angeles that was hijacked by Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, two Bulgarian immigrants, on July 5, 1972 shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport.

Paddyfield Warbler

It is a rare vagrant to western Europe although there are small breeding populations along the western shores of the Black Sea around the border between Bulgaria and Romania.

Philippopolis

Plovdiv, Bulgaria (named after Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father)

Porky pine

They performed a lot of concerts around Bulgaria and its Black Sea Coast.

Rearmament

Salonika Agreement (31 July 1938), a treaty permitting Bulgaria to re-arm contrary to the Treaty of Neuilly

Richard Dunne

He played in all ten games helping Ireland finish second and qualify for a play-off whilst also scoring goals in both 1–1 draws with Bulgaria, as well as winning the man of the match award in the away game held in Sofia.

RPG-22

The one used against the MI6 building was Russian-made, while one found at Dungannon came from Bulgaria.

Sesostris

In Herodotus' Histories there appears a story told by Egyptian priests about a Pharaoh Sesostris, who once led an army northward overland to Asia Minor, then fought his way westward until he crossed into Europe, where he defeated the Scythians and Thracians (possibly in modern Romania and Bulgaria).

Skobelev

Skobelev Park, a museum park in the vicinity of Pleven, Bulgaria

Sofia – Kardam train fire

The Sofia – Kardam train fire occurred on 28 February 2008, when the BDZ night train from Sofia to Kardam caught fire at 11:40 pm near the industrial zone of the town of Cherven bryag, Bulgaria.

Southern Bulgaria

Much later, after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, all of Northern Bulgaria and the region of Sofia became the Principality of Bulgaria while most of the rest of Southern Bulgaria was part of Eastern Rumelia until the Bulgarian unification in 1885.

Stadion Kranjčevićeva

In 1947 Kranjčevićeva hosted their single international game in the SFR Yugoslavia period, a 2–1 Balkan Cup win against Bulgaria, with both Yugoslavia's goals scored by Prvoslav Mihajlović.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Stephen Malcolm

Malcolm died in a car accident, only hours after playing Bulgaria in a friendly international in Kingston.

Supercomputing in Europe

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Sofia operates an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer, which offers high-performance processing to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University, among other organizations.

Taner Sağır

On August 30, 2008, he married Sibel Güler, a two-time European taekwondo champion and also an immigrant from Bulgaria.

The Matrix Revolutions: Music from the Motion Picture

The track Navras of Juno Reactor was used by rhythmic gymnasts Simona Peycheva of Bulgaria and Penelope Blackmore of Australia in their respective ribbon routines at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming

Premiering at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma where it was nominated for the Grand Prix Focus, The Woman of Ahhs was an official selection at numerous film festivals around the world, including Cinefest, the Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria, the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France, where it was presented at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Mexico International Film Festival where Paquette received the Bronze Palm Award.

Timočani

Today, Timočani can be used as an informal name for the inhabitants of the Timok region in Serbia and Bulgaria.

Valentin Bozhkov

Valentin Bozhkov (born May 2, 1958 in Samokov) is a Bulgarian ski jumper that competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.