Mythinglinks: Eastern Europe / The Balkans: Bulgaria, page 1
I checked an old dictionary and discovered that the name comes from a chain of mountains crossing Bulgaria from east to west. ...
Mythinglinks: Eastern Europe / The Balkans: Bulgaria, page 1
(see directly above), this sitelooks at Bulgarian history. If you click on the page's: "And more..."you'll find a good overview -- in the opening paragraph the unnamed authorsset an intriguing and mysterious tone:Founded in 681, Bulgaria is one of the oldest Europeanstates. resent-day Bulgarian lands.These areas had been populated as early as the Palaeolithic period. town of Montana, a 6800-year-old inscriptionhas been discovered....This is a stone tablet on which 24 signs (stillundeciphered) are written in four lines. Bulgars,a Turkic people who migrated from the steppe north of the Black Sea, conqueredthe Slavic tribes and founded the First Bulgarian Kingdom in 681. Bulgarswere absorbed in the larger Slavic population.... l-bulgaria.com/explore/heritage.htmlThis site looks briefly at nine "Bulgarian wonders" selectedby UNESCO as among 300 of the planet's most valuble cultural and naturallandmarks. These nine include natural wonders as well as medievalmonasteries and ancient Thracian tombs. Roses). This time the text on Thracianhistory, architecture, and murals is lengthy and beautifully done. I wish there were more photos, but the three provided are "clickable" forgorgeous enlargements. [see elsewhere on this page] comes thissite on "The People of Bulgaria," an informative, insightful look at thehistory of the many different ethnicities in this country. Be sureto click on all the hypertext for more in-depth essays, written with styleand gentle wit. BulgarianJews' during World War II (one link is to a very touching excerpt fromHannah Arendt's writings). The site also offers an excellent Bibliography. aqserver.cgi?pomaksThis is a carefully reasoned 1994 site, "Who are the Pomaks,"by Roumi Radenska:'Pomaks' is the name of pretty large group of peoplewho live mainly in Rhodopi mountains (southern Bulgaria, close to the borderwith Greece). bulgarian language....Theirancestors were slavic christian people who accepted muslim religion.
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