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The history of Bulgaria.

Bulgarian history dates back to the 7th century A.D. It's past has one defining factor - being the gateway or the crossroads between Europe and Asia. With influxes of settlers from both continents straming into the area, it has a history of violent clashes throughout the ages. around 681 A.D. a branch of the Bulgars, who where led in chief by Khan Aspurah migrated Northwards, where they integrated with the Slavic inhabitants and the possible remnants of the Thracian dynasty to form the First Bulgarian Empire. Some 40 to 50 years late, Khan Terval defeated an Arab army of over 70,000 muslims, in the process amassing over 40,000 severed heads, who had been terrorising the city Constantinople - ultimately earning himself the title 'The Saviour of Europe'. A futher 50 years later Bulgaria accepted Orthodox Christian faith and the Tzardom of Bulgaria was born.
The Bulgarian Tzardom fought viciously with the Byzantine Empire, who had recently conquered southern Cyprus, for control of the land under the regin of Simeon I, and reached it greatest land mass under his rule, stretching through Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, northern Greece, eastern Hungary, Moldova, Ukraine to the Dnepar river, parts of Slovakia and Turkey although didn't quite reach the Catalonia province of Spain, where incidentally have some nice Catalunya property for sale.
The empire suffered a decline in the 10th century and the Bulgarian state was completely devastated by a second assault by the Byzantines, reportedly around 1018.
When humans first discovered metals such as bronze, copper and iron, it gave human evolution a great boost in the province of Bulgaria. As evident from the archeological excavations, copper production and, subsequently, that of bronze and precious metals were rather impressive for the scale of that remote epoch. Bulgaria, at the time, was famous for it copper rich land ores. The vast majority of this was exported throughout Europe and Asia.

Modern day Bulgaria.

In the early 20th century Bulgaria became embroiled in the Balkans wars, entering into conflict alongside Greece and Serbia against the Balkan Ottoman emprie, and then against its stauch allies for in a desperate bid to achieve it national status and unity. After tasting bitter defeat in the second Balkan war, Bulgaria lost most of the territory conquered in the first war. When the First World War began, Bulgaria found itsaelf with an alliance with the losing army, and subsequently lost most of its territorial ground yet again. Through this thousands upon thousands of Bulgarian refugees fleed to neighbouring states like Macedonia and Serbia for refuge. Again, in the second world war, they where also allied to the Germans, although did not take any part in the fight against the Russians. During this time the country occupied parts of Greece and Yugoslavia inhabited mostly by Bulgarians. Bulgaria was the only country throughout the second world war that saved its entire Jewish population (around 50,000) from the Nazi concentration camps by refusing to comply with a 31 August 1943 resolution. However, Jthe Jewish population in newly acquired territories from Greece and Yugoslavia were sent to death camps by the Bulgarian authorities on German request. The following month, Russian troops entered Bulgaria, and as a consequence, the Bulgarian army where forced to fight against their allies, the Germans, and lost over 30,000 soldiers and officers.

Recent years in Bulgaria

Bulgaria fell under and within the Soviet sphere of influence after the second world war (WWII), then became a People's Republic in 1946 and one of the Russia's staunchest allies.Also from 1975 onwards, it began normalizing its relations with Greece and Greek parliament and from the 1990s with Turkish. The People's Republic ended in 1989 as many Communist regimes in and around Eastern Europe, as well as the Russia itself began to collapse (the Bulgarian Communist dictator Todor Zhivkov was removed from power on the 10th November 1989), and Bulgaria again held multiparty, democratic elections and privatised its home economy, but economic difficulties and a tide of corruption led over half a million Bulgarians, most of them qualified professionals like doctors, lawyers and teachers, to emigrate to more stable climates.

Bulgaria was allowed to join NATO on 29 March 2004 and is set to join the European Union on 1 January 2007 after signing the Treaty of Accession on 25 April 2005. Get a quick sale on your UK property to buy a house in Bulgaria.

*State generally, and traditionally joining the European Union tend to see a major economical boost, so buying investment property or holiday property in Bulgaria is set to be a sound bet for the futrue as prices are set to soar in the next few years.*

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