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Bulgaria
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България
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Български
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България - Република България[1]
Република България е държава в Югоизточна Европа. Разположена е в източната половина на Балканския полуостров. Граничи с Черно море на изток, с Гърция и Турция на юг, със Сърбия и Република Македония на запад, и с Румъния на север, разделена от река Дунав. Общата дължина на държавната граница е 2245 км, от тях 1181 км са сухоземни, 686 км — речни и 378 км — морски.Официалното име на държавата според конституцията ѝ от 1991 г. е Република България.
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Bulgaria - Republic of Bulgaria
The Republic of Bulgaria is a country in Southeastern Europe, and a member state of the European Union. It borders the Black Sea to the east, ► Greece and ► Turkey to the south, ► Serbia and the ► Republic of Macedonia to the west, and ► Romania to the north, mostly along the Danube. Bulgaria also shares a maritime border with Turkey, Romania, ► Ukraine, ► Russia, and ► Georgia. The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.
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Short name
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Bulgaria
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Official name
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Republic of Bulgaria
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Status
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Third Bulgarian state is independent since 1908, member of the ► European Union since 2007
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Location
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South East Europe
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Capital
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София[2] (Sofia)
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Population
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6,951,482 inhabitants
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Area
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110,993.6[3][4][5] square kilometres (42,854.9 sq mi)
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Major languages
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Bulgarian[6] (official)
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Major religions
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Orhodoxy[7]
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More information
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Bulgaria, Geography of Bulgaria, History of Bulgaria and Politics of Bulgaria
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More images
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Bulgaria - Bulgaria (Category).
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General maps
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Topographic map of Bulgaria[8]
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Map of Bulgaria[9]
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Map of Bulgaria
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History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Bulgaria, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Bulgaria.
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Ancient map of Thrace (made in 1585)
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present
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Extent of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire; 44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals) AD 14 (death of Augustus)
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Invasions of the Roman Empire 100-500
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Roman era Balkans, map by Alexander G. Findlay, 1849
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Roman era Balkans
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Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
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The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.
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Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus 527-565
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Map showing the location of Bulgars, c. 650.
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The First Bulgarian Empire under Khan Krum 803–814 (The empire includes the both lands painted in yellow and green)
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The First Bulgarian Empire under Knyaz Boris 852–889 (The empire includes the both lands painted in lighter and darker yellow colours)
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The First Bulgarian Empire's greatest territorial extent during the reign of Tsar Simeon (The empire includes the both lands painted in beige and orange)
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The Byzantine Empire under Basil II, c. 1025
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Territorial expansion of the Second Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Ivan Asen II 1218-1241 (The empire includes the both lands painted in lighter and darker yellow colours)
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Fragmenting of the Second Bulgarian Empire into two Bulgarian Tsardoms and many small possessions (in the late 14th century) followed by Ottoman conquering of the state
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Growth of the Ottoman Empire
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Development of the European part of the Ottoman Empire 15th-19th century
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Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
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Ethnic map of the Ottoman Empire (1861)
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The Spread of Slavs in the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian-Danubian space (1869)
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Proposed restoration of Bulgaria after the Conference of Constantinople, 1876 (rejected proposal by the Ottoman Empire)
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Restoration of Bulgarian state (now as Third Bulgarian state) in 1878, but still as client state of the Ottoman Empire
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The Third Bulgarian state lost most of its territories in the same 1878
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Ethnic map of the Balkan Peninsula (1898)
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Bulgarians in 1912
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Boundaries on the Balkans before and after the First and the Second Balkan War 1912-1913 (The Third Bulgarian state has been completely independent and not client state since 1908)
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Map of Bulgaria during WWI
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Bulgaria after WWI 1918-1941
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Map of Bulgaria during WWII
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Dobruja
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Map of Romania and Bulgaria with Dobruja highlighted
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Borders in Dobruja
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The fronteer between Northern and Southern Dobruja
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The fronteer between Romania and Bulgaria (1913-1940)
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Ethnic map of Dobruja (1918)
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Dobruja Germans
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Oblasti between 1987 and 1999
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History of the wider geographical region of Macedonia
- Not to be confused with the modern Republic of Macedonia
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Borders of Macedonia (region) according authors (1843-1927)
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French Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia (region), 19th century (point of view of Bulgarians)
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French Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia (region), 19th century (point of view of Serbs)
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Division of Macedonia (region) between the Balkan states (Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania), 1913
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Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
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Bulgaria as part of the Ottoman Empire, a map by T. Jefferys, 1785
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Map of the South-East Balkans
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Provinces of Bulgaria
Other maps
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Eparchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
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Extreme points
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Satellite maps
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Satellite map
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Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
- ↑ Romanization according to the United Nations: Bălgarija - Republika Bălgarija.
- ↑ Romanization: Sofiya.
- ↑ (1997) География на България. Физическа и икономическа география, АИ „Марин Дринов“
- ↑ (2002) География на България, „ФорКом“ ISBN: 9544641238.
- ↑ Пенин, Румен (2007) Природна география на България, Булвест 2000, pp. 18 ISBN: 9789541805466.
- ↑ Cultrual Policies and Trends in Europe. Population by ethnic group and mother tongue, 2001. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved on 2 December 2008.
- ↑ The Bulgarian Constitution. Parliament.bg. Archived from the original on 2010-11-10. Retrieved on 13 April 2011.
- ↑ Find a blank version of this map here: Image:Topographic Map of Bulgaria Blank.png.
- ↑ See for a Bulgarian version: here.
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