20 Facts About Bulgaria That You Didn’t Know
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1. Bulgaria is the only country in Europe that hasn’t changed its name since it was first established. This happened in 681 AD.
2. The oldest gold treasure in the world was found in Bulgaria (in 294 graves were found 3000 gold objects dating back more than 6000 years).
3. Bulgarians shake their heads to mean yes and nod for no.
4. The Bulgarian folk song “Izlel e Delyu Haydutin” by the Bulgarian folk music singer Valya Balkanska was sent in deep space on the board of the US Space Probe – Voyager I, as part of a collection of our civilization’s finest cultural artifacts – a message to an alien intelligence.
5. Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, the bacterium that is responsible for giving Bulgarian yoghurt its unique flavour and consistency, can be found only in Bulgarian air.
6. The Bulgarian army has never lost a single flag in battle.
7. John Vincent Atanasoff was a physicist and inventor of Bulgarian descent, best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer.
8. Nearly one third of Bulgaria is covered in forests.
9. The roses grown in Bulgaria’s “Rose Valley” produce most (70-85
😵of the world’s rose oil – a component in most perfumes.
10. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the oldest Slavic Orthodox Church.
11. With the accession of Bulgaria to the EU on January 1, 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the EU.
12. The first air-dropped bomb in Military History was developed by the Bulgarian Air Force during the first Balkan War and was used on October 16th, 1912 by Lieut. Radul Milkov and Lieut. Prodan Tarakchiev.
13. The Rila Cross is a wooden cross with 140 microscopic scenes from the Bible featuring more than 1,500 figures. The largest of them is no bigger than a grain of rice.
14. Stefka Kostadinova won the high jump of the World Championships in Rome with the sensational 2.09 metres. It has been 28 years since then and no other woman has managed to match or beat this record.
15. Another world record is hold by Yordanka Donkova in 100 metres hurdles. With time of 12.21 min. this record hasn’t been broken for 27 years.
16. Bulgarian actor Zahary Bacharov has a role as tribal leader Loboda in the fifth season of HBO’s hit television series Game of Thrones.
17. In 1976 UNESCO declared the ancient Bulgarian calendar as the most accurate in the world.
18. Rayna Kasabova was a Bulgarian air force pilot and the first womаn in the world who participated in a military flight.
19. Vanga is a famous Bulgarian prophetess. It’s believed that lots of her predictions came true.
20. The Cyrillic script was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School by disciples of the Greek brothers Cyril and Methodius. The Bulgarian Saint Clement of Ohrid is often associated with the creation of the the Cyrillic.
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Това с клатенето на главата идва от коня , понеже българите са били конно племе .
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Аз знам друга история.
Когато турците хващали българин и искали да му сменят вярата,допирали един нож под гърлото и го питали дали иска да стане мюсюлманин. Ако си поклати главата на страни - да,ако не, поклаща главата надолу и един вид се самоубива.
Захари Бахаров е особено фАктуален.
аз лично поне за друг българин в такъв успешен филмов проект да участва не съм чувал. Както и да е... просто копирах и да валят вотове там
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Българката от "Дневниците на Вампира"-Нина Добрев
на Нина целият й живот е в Канада... при нея е по-различно, макар че пак си е българка ...
кеча например е голямо шоу, в което сега участва българин, но може би по-добре да споменем истинския кечист, Дан Колов.
вотец 🙂
632г е създадена ..доказано вече 🙂
Кубрат, да, а преди това? На т.17 българският календар е на над 7500 години, а траки вероятно е било (обидното) наименование, с което наричали българите по ония времена.
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Траките не са българи това не е вярно , но да изключително древен народ сме ..
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От доста време трудно ме лови сън ,а то било от напращялата гордост ""ЗАХАРИ""!
Ами Нина Добрев? Че от нея може и нещо друго да ти набъбне, не само гордостта 😉
What about bulgarian lion? There were lions near in the past?
era el simbolo de la casa real de bulgaria 😛
y deja tranquilo a Indonesia ;_;
There were lions all throughout Europe, the Romans killed most of them off and then switched to gladiators....
This is the reason why so many European countries have lions in their heraldic symbols.
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Занимљив чланак. Глас о7
Thks for sharing 🙂
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Fact 21 : Ohri is Albania !
LOL
St. Cyril and Methodius greeks?
St. Klement from Ohrid Bulgarian?
And the oldest slavic orthodox church was maybe in today borders of Bulgaria but it was Macedonian.
And yes everything in this world is bulgarian
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from which year u have country ? MACEDONIA IS BULGARIAN TERITORY! LEARN HISTORY PLZ
We have country since VIII BC 😉
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sorry but this is facts. Something what u will never understand
@Naumoski MKD
Нямате нищо общо с античка Македония!
научно е докажано дека македонциве имаат најблиско потекло со античките македонци 😉
Ние ако немаме врска со античка македонија Грција пак ич .
Постојат само модерна Грција, Србија,Бугарија, Македониај, Албанија и Романија.
Istorijata e opstestvena nauka koja gi proucuva nastanite, pojavite i procesite od pojavata na covekot do denes.
По дефиниција историјата е ничија и сечија односно на сите нас.
Поздрав до браќата во бугарија,србија и грција о7
Naumoski MK😨 It is true that Cyril and Methodius are greeks - thats a fact, but for Kliment Ohridski you are not right. Yes TODAY Ohrid is macedonian city, BUT in the years when Kliment Ohridski lived Ohrid was bulgarian city and thats a fact. Open some historical maps from 850-900 AD and look which country was holding those lands where is Ohrid now. There is no Macedonia on the maps, there is Bulgaria. So as i said now in present days Ohrid is macedonian city, but in ancient times, before 1000-1100 years that was bulgarian territory, so during that time all people that were born there were... BULGARIANS! Hell, from 990 to 1015 Ohrid was Bulgarian Capital!!! King Samuil (no, he is not macedonian king, he is bulgarian king) moved BULGARIAN CAPITAL to Ohrid! So in the end you want to tell us that Kliment Ohridski was not bulgarian, just because his family name is Ohridski and in present days Ohrid is macedonian city?! Come on, dont be foolish!
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Гледай клипа и ще разбереш ...
Khan Asparuh (turkich-clan Dulo)is from river Volga (V/Bolgari) 681 AD. After many rolling clans who defending Eastern roman empire from the north-east First who adopted Christianity is Car Boris I is baptised in 864 , Boris was named Michael after his godfather Bizantium Emperor Michael III and become south Slav in 9c. Cyril and Metodius are born in Solun(Salonica) today northern Greece (Makedonia). They gave them Cyrillic alphabet.
Vanga is born in Strumica (R.Makedonia) before Balkan wars 1912 and died in Petrich after WWII. In WWII Bulgaria was under fashist regime sending Judes from Balkan to prison and red army liberated today Bulgaria.
Dude, take it easy! Obviously you dont know anything about Cyrillic! The alphabet that was made by Cyril and Methodius is NOT Cyrillic! They made one thing named GLAGOLICA! Cyrillic alphabet was made by St Kliment Ohridski and named cyrillic in honour of his teacher Cyril!!! 😉 And btw there is huge difference between glagolica and cyrillic. 😉
Прав си ами сега што не ти е јасно? Борис прв христијанин помеѓу бугарите а писмото е од друга егзархија Охридска архиепископија.
Разбирливо Охрид и Солун се во санстефанска Бугарија.Istorijata e opstestvena nauka koja gi proucuva nastanite, pojavite i procesite od pojavata na covekot do denes.
По дефиниција историјата е ничија и сечија односно на сите нас.
Поздрав до браќата во бугарија,србија и грцијао7
There is not difference among the brothers respect o7
Ама не му говори, бе! - то е глухо и колкото и повече прочел от останалите антични, явно без срам показва и друго 🙂
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Interesting!