Bulgarian History



Old Bulgarian Capitals
The Bulgarian lands are ancient crossroads. It remembers many ancient civilisations and great peoples which wrote the pages oh its turbulent history: bronze and iron spears and arrows, ruins of palaces and cities, wise words carved on rocks and stone columns, written on parchment and leather.



Bulgarian Monasteries

The Thracians bequeathed us the famous tombs near Kazanluk and Sveshtari, the unique gold treasures from Panagyurishte and Rogozen. The Hellenes built the beautiful coastal towns of Apollonia, Anhialo and Messambria, and Romans - ancient Aescus, Nikopolis ad Istrum and Nove. Huns, Gothes and Averas later passes through our lands. Around the mid-7th century the Slavs from the north across the Danube and reached as far as the Black Sea and the Adriatic. They were followed by the Bulgarians of Khan Asparouh...



Museum Towns

Note: In fact, there were only three states in Europe in 681:The Western Roman Empire, Bulgaria and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)!


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