THE PRESENTATION FROM BULGARIA

3. Bulgaria is located in Southeast Europe, in the northeast part of the
Balkan Peninsula.
The official time in Bulgaria is Eastern European Time, which is two
hours ahead of Greenwich Time.
A series of major European transport corridors pass through
Bulgaria.
Bulgaria borders to the north with Romania, to the east with the
Black Sea, to the south with Turkey and Greece, and to the west
with Macedonia and Serbia.
With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi),
Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country.

4. Motto : Unity makes strength
National anthem of Bulgaria
Mila Rodino
Gorda Stara planina,
do ney Dunava siney,
slantse Trakiya ogryava,
nad Pirina plameney.
Refrain: (twice)
Mila Rodino,
ti si zemen ray,
tvoyta hubost, tvoyta prelest,
ah, te nyamat kray.
Dear Motherland
Proud Balkan Mountains,
next to it the Danube sparkles,
the sun shines over Thrace,
and blazes over Pirin.
Refrain: (twice)
Dear Motherland,
you are heaven on earth,
your beauty, your loveliness,
ah, they are boundless.
Population - 7,364,570

5. Bulgarian Official Holidays
1 January – New Year’s Day
3 March – National Holiday /Bulgaria’s Liberation from the Ottoman Empire/
1 May – Labour and International Worker’s Solidarity Day
6 May – Gergyovden (St. George’s Day), and the Bulgarian Army’s Day
24 May - Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavic Script Day
6 September - Unification Day
22 September – Independence Day
1 November – Day of the Bulgarian Enlighteners (Holiday for all educational
institutions)
24 December - Christmas Eve
25, 26 December - Christmas Days
Easter Holidays– 4 days /Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday and
Monday/ according to the Orthodox calendar of the year

7. Bulgaria - land of history, culture and traditions...
Mummers

8. Nestinarstvo
Survaki

9. Martenitsi
Round loaf ( Pogacha) Welcome with bread and salt

10. Bulgarian folklore

11. Valya Mladenova Balkanska
is a Bulgarian folk music singer from
the Rhodope Mountains known locally for
her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but
in the West mainly for singing the song
"Izlel e Delyu Haydutin ", part of
the Voyager Golden Record selection of
music included in the two Voyager
spacecraft launched in 1977. It is expected
that her voice will be played in space for at
least 60,000 years more.

12. Gifts for the godfathers
Rychenica
Trifon Zarezan

13. Clever Peter Bai Ganyo Krali Marko
The three brothers and the golden apple The Span one elbow beard The Sandman

14. Capital(and largest city)- Sofia

15. Official language : Bulgarian
Official script : Cyrillic

16. The lev ( plural: leva,levove) is the currency of Bulgaria. It is
divided in 100 stotinki (singular: stotinka). In archaic Bulgarian
the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language
became lav.

18. History of Bulgaria
Thracians
Orpheus
Spartacus
The Valley of Roses and Thracian Kings

20. First Bulgarian Empire
Khan Asparuh Khan Tervel
Khan Krum
Tsar Boris I

21. Tsar Simeon Veliki
St. Ivan Rilski
Madara Rider

22. Second Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Kaloyan Tsar Ivan Asen II Tsar Ivan Alexander
Asenova krepost

23. Tsarevets
Kaliakra

24. Freedom Fighters
Against the Ottoman Empire

26. Third Bulgarian state
The communist period
Democracy - 1989
Bulgaria became a member of NATO in 2004 and of
the European Union in 2007.

32. Bulgarian UNESCO Sites
Cultural
Ancient City of Nessebar(1983)
Boyana Church(1979)
Madara Rider (1979)
Rila Monastery1983)
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo (1979)
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak1979)
Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari(1985)
Natural
Pirin National Park(1983)
Srebarna Nature Reserve (1983)

33. Prominent Bulgarians
Hristo Stoichkov
DimitarBerbatov
Stefka Kostadinova
Veselin Topalov

34. John Atanasov
Boris Hristov
Hristo Yavashev

35. Bulgarian cuisine *dishes * goodies
yogurt
banitsa

36. rakiya
shopska salad
tarator

37. lukanka
herbs and spices
lyutenitsa
turshiya
space food

38. Easy to find !