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Bulgaria (Bulgarian: България, Balgariya,, officially the Republic of
Bulgaria (Република България, Republika Balgariya, re-incarnates one of the
oldest states in Europe,, located in Southeastern Europe, bordering five
other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and
the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south.
The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
Bulgaria comprises the classical regions of Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia.
Old European culture in the region started to produce golden artifacts by
the fifth millennium BCE.
The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name, language, and
alphabet) of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/681 – 1018), which at times
covered most of the Balkans and spread its alphabet, literature and culture
among the Slavic and other peoples of Eastern Europe. Centuries later, with
the decline of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 – 1396/1422), the country
came under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries. Diplomacy re-established
Bulgaria as a constitutional monarchy in 1878, with the Treaty of San
Stefano marking the birth of the Third Bulgarian Kingdom. After World War
II, Bulgaria became a communist state and part of the Eastern Bloc. In 1990,
after the Revolutions of 1989, the Communist party gave up its monopoly on
power and Bulgaria transitioned to democracy and free-market capitalism.
Currently Bulgaria functions as a parliamentary democracy under a unitary
constitutional republic. A member of the European Union since 2007 and of
NATO since 2004, it has a population of approximately 7.7 million, with
Sofia as its capital and largest city.
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