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Bulgaria

	България

Български	България - Република България ^[1] Република България е държава в Югоизточна Европа. Разположена е в източната половина на Балканския полуостров. Граничи с Черно море на изток, с Гърция и Турция на юг, със Сърбия и Република Македония на запад, и с Румъния на север, разделена от река Дунав. Общата дължина на държавната граница е 2245 км, от тях 1181 км са сухоземни, 686 км — речни и 378 км — морски.Официалното име на държавата според конституцията ѝ от 1991 г. е Република България.
Magyar	Bulgária - Bolgár Köztársaság Bulgária ország Délkelet-Európában, az Európai Unió tagállama. Szomszédai keleten a Fekete-Tenger, délen Görögország és Törökország, nyugaton Szerbia és Macedónia, északon Románia. Fővárosa Szófia.
Türkçe	Bulgaristan - Bulgaristan Cumhuriyeti Bulgaristan, Güneydoğu Avrupa'da, Balkan Yarımadası'nda yer alan bir ulus devlettir. Ülke, batıda Sırbistan ve Makedonya Cumhuriyeti, doğuda Karadeniz, kuzeyde Romanya, güneyde Yunanistan ve Türkiye ile çevrilidir.
English	Bulgaria - Republic of Bulgaria The Republic of Bulgaria is a country in Southeastern Europe, and a member state of the European Union. It borders the Black Sea to the east, ► Greece and ► Turkey to the south, ► Serbia and the ► Republic of Macedonia to the west, and ► Romania to the north, mostly along the Danube. Bulgaria also shares a maritime border with Turkey, Romania, ► Ukraine, ► Russia, and ► Georgia. The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.

Short name	Bulgaria
Official name	Republic of Bulgaria
Status	Independent country since 1908, member of the ► European Union since 2007
Location	South East Europe
Capital	София^[2] (Sofia)
Population	7,726,000 inhabitants
Area	110,912 km²
Major languages	Bulgarian (official) and Turkish (minority)
Major religions	Orhodoxy and Islam
More information	Bulgaria, Geography of Bulgaria, History of Bulgaria and Politics of Bulgaria
More images	Bulgaria - Bulgaria (Category).

General maps

Topographic map of Bulgaria^[3]

Map of Bulgaria^[4]

The Walachian Plain

Map of Bulgaria

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Bulgaria, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Bulgaria.

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The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander

Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)

Hellenistic successor states:

Kingdom of Ptolemy

Kingdom of Cassander

Kingdom of Lysimachus

Kingdom of Seleucus

Epirus

Other states:

Carthage

Rome

Greek colonies

Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present

Map of the Roman Empire in 50

The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;

133 BC

44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)

AD 14 (death of Augustus)

117 (maximum extension)

Camps of the Roman Legions in 80

Map of the Roman Empire in 116

Roman Empire in 117

Roman Empire divided 395, showing the dioceses and praetorian prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and Oriens (east), roughly analogous to the four Tetrarchs' zones of influence after Diocletian's reforms.

The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.

Western Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire

Invasions of the Roman Empire 100-500

Division of the Roman Empire in 406

Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire, c.476

Eastern Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus

Map of the changes in borders of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire 550

Classical Balkans

Map showing the location of Bulgars, c. 650.

Bulgaria from 893-927: The First Bulgarian Empire's greatest territorial extent during the reign of Tsar Simeon

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The Byzantine Empire under Basil II, c. 1025

Byzantine Empire 1025

The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1081

Map of the Byzantine Empire under Manuel Komnenos, c.1170.

Byzantine Empire 1180

The Second Bulgarian Empire under Ivan Asen, 1218-41

Bulgaria in 1256

Bulgaria in 1265

Map of the Bulgarian lands during the rule of of Tsar Ivan Alexander (1331-1371)

Growth of the Ottoman Empire

Development of the European part of the Ottoman Empire

Growth of the Ottoman Empire

Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566

Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683

Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801

Balkans after 1856

Ethnic map of the Balkan Peninsula (1861)

The Spread of Slavs in the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian-Danubian space (1869)

Bulgaria after the Conference of Constantinople, 1876

April Uprising 1876

Bulgaria according to the Treaty of San Stefano

Ethnic map of Bulgaria according to the census results from 1892

Ethnic map of the Balkan Peninsula (1898)

Romanian (vlach) settlements in Central Serbia and northwestern Bulgaria (Vidin region)

Bulgarians in 1912

Boundaries on the Balkans after the First and the Second Balkan War (1912-1913)

Macedonia after the Treaty of Bucharest 1913

Bulgaria after Treatry of Neuilly-sur-Seine

Frontier with Serbia 1919

Map of Bulgaria during WWII

Dobruja

Scythia Minor

Principality of Dobrotici cca 1370-1385

Map of Romania and Bulgaria with Dobruja highlighted

Borders in Dobruja

The fronteer between Northern and Southern Dobruja

Ethnic map of the Danube mouths from 1861 (including parts of Northern Dobruja). See also the legend

Ethnic map of Northern Dobruja(1903)

Ethnic map (1918)

Dobruja Germans

Oblasti between 1987 and 1999

History of the wider geographical region of Macedonia

Not to be confused with the modern Republic of Macedonia

Greater Macedonia

Borders of Macedonia according authors (1843-1927)

Bulgarian Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia region, 19th century

Serbian Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia region, 19th century

Division of Macedonia region between the Balkan states, 1913

Macedonia

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.

Bulgaria as part of the Ottoman Empire, a map by T. Jefferys, 1785

Map of the South-East Balkans

Ethnic map of the Macedonian region from a Bulgarian view

Provinces of Bulgaria

Provinces

Municipalities of Bulgaria

Other maps

Eparchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Extreme points

Turks in Bulgaria

Satellite maps

Satellite map

Notes and references

General remarks:

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Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
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The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.

↑ Romanization according to the United Nations: Bălgarija - Republika Bălgarija.
↑ Romanization: Sofija.
↑ Find a blank version of this map here: [1].
↑ See for a Bulgarian version: here.