Bulgaria

Bulgaria (Bulgarian: България; Romanized Bŭlgariya) is a country located in the Balkans, bordering Greece and Turkey to the south, Romania to the north, the Black Sea to the east and lastly Serbia and North Macedonia to the west. The capital is Sofia in the east central region of the country. 
Currently, the Republic of Bulgaria serves as the government of the nation as a unitary parliamentary republic.
==Relevant history==
===Overview===
One of the first prominent ethnic groups that surfaced in Bulgaria were the Thracians, who interacted frequently with the Greeks and were attacked and controlled by the Achaemenid Empire from the 6th century BCE to 479 BCE, the Macedonians who vassalized modern Bulgaria in 341 BCE, and eventually fully conquered by the Roman Empire and made into a province by 45 CE. The Byzantine Empire eventually ruled Bulgaria, though could not hold the country due to a war with Persia.
After the Slavs began emigrating into modern Bulgaria, the Bulgars conquered the country and founded the First Bulgarian Empire, though it was eventually conquered by the Byzantines. A second Bulgarian Empire was eventually founded, though Seljuk, Hungarian, and Byzantine invaders forced Bulgaria to be ruled by the Mongols. The Mongols were overthrown by a rebellion, and Bulgaria eventually formed two tsardoms that were conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.
The Ottoman Empire ruled Bulgaria for centuries, suffering from constant rebellion, until the Russian Empire defeated the Ottomans and forced the Ottomans to free Bulgaria as an independent state in 1878. It fought disastrously in the Balkan Wars and World War I until the tyrannical Tsar Boris III took power. Bulgaria joined the Axis and was overthrown by a communist coup d'état. The nation became a Stalinist communist state until 1989 and the Republic of Bulgaria was formed.
==Notable locations==
*Gabrovo Province 
**Dryanovo Municipality
***Garnya
*Sofia City Province 
**Stolichna Municipality
***Sofia
==External link== 
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria
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==References==
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