Bulgaria
Bulgaria is a country in the southeast of Europe on the Balkan peninsula. To the north borders Bulgaria to Romania, south to Greece and Turkey, west to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, and eastward to the Black Sea.
In the 7th century immigrant group Bulgarians led by Khan Asparuh to northern Balkans, where they mingled with the local Slavic and Thracian population to form the first Bulgarian kingdom. Bulgaria was an important European state in the 9th and 10 century, and was contrary to the Byzantine Empire for control of the Balkans. The Bulgarian state was beaten by the traps at 969 and was completely crushed and suppressed as a result of a Byzantine attack in Basileios II of the 1018th
Bulgaria were restored in 1185 and continued to be an important country in South East for over two centuries, while fighting for his place in the region next to the Byzantine Empire, Hungary and the Crusader states in Greece until it was conquered by the Ottomans in the late of the 14th century.
Following the Berlin Congress after the Turkish-Russian war regained Bulgaria with Russian help its independence in 1878 as an autonomous principality, and as a totally sovereign kingdom in 1908.
Kingdom of Bulgaria, 1915
Between 1912 and 1913 the country was involved in a series of conflicts with its neighbors – first and second Balkan War – under which most European territories of Turkey became a part of Serbia, Greece, Albania and Bulgaria. During the first World War fought Bulgaria to the central power’s hand, and was allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. During the second World War II, Bulgaria was a member of the Axis powers. 9. September 1944 the country was occupied by the Soviet Union, and was touted as a Communist People’s Republic in 1946. King – Simeon II – was exiled in 1947. In 1990, the communist power abolished. Bulgaria joined NATO on 29 March 2004, and member of the EU on 1 January 2007. King Simeon II, later served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
Burkina Faso & Brunei
