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From 1879, stamps were issued in Bulgarian Cyrillic script and some of the stamps—such as those issued in 1901—commemorated the 25th anniversary of the April Uprising against the Turks and, in 1902, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Shipka. [ 2] Bulgaria become a de jure independent state in 1908, even though early stamps ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Bulgaria when the country's first cases, a 27-year-old man from Pleven and a 75-year-old woman from Gabrovo , were ...
Islam in Bulgaria is a minority religion and the second largest religion in the country after Christianity. According to the 2021 Census, the total number of Muslims in Bulgaria stood at 638,708 [ 2] corresponding to 9.8% of the population. [ 3] Ethnically, Muslims in Bulgaria are Turks, Bulgarians and Roma, living mainly in parts of ...
1987–2017. Rank. Major general. Rumen Georgiev Radev ( Bulgarian: Румен Георгиев Радев [ˈrumɛn ˈradɛf]; born 18 June 1963) is a Bulgarian politician and former major general who has been the president of Bulgaria since 22 January 2017. Radev previously served as higher commander of the Bulgarian Air Force. [ 1]
Orthodox Christianity is Bulgaria’s dominant religion, followed by some 85 percent of the country’s 6.7 million people. Patriarch Neophyte, leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church, dies at 78 ...
Islam is the second largest religion in Bulgaria, adhered to by 9.8% of the population, or about six hundred thousand people, according to the census of 2021. [ 1] The Bulgarian Muslim community is ethnically diversified, comprising Muslim Bulgarians or Pomaks, and Turkish, Romani and Tatar Muslims. [ 16]
Postage stamps and postal history of Eastern Rumelia. Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an autonomous province (vilayet) in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1908; however, it was under Bulgarian control beginning in 1885 (see Bulgarian unification ). The province is remembered today by philatelists for having issued postage stamps from ...
1961 USSR stamp marking the 15th anniversary of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. The People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB; Bulgarian: Народна република България (НРБ), pronounced [nɐˈrɔdnɐ rɛˈpublikɐ bɐɫˈɡarijɐ] Narodna republika Bŭlgariya, NRB) was the official name of Bulgaria when it was a socialist republic from 1946 to 1990, ruled by the Bulgarian ...