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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks. Northern Bulgaria attained autonomy in 1878 and all of Bulgaria became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1908. Having fought on the losing side in both World Wars, Bulgaria fell within the Soviet sphere of influence and became a People's Republic in 1946. Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime. The country joined NATO in 2004 and the EU in 2007.

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Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria

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anthropologist (b) 30th April 2006	protobulgarians belong to east-iranian group nations,they are not mongolians,this is the pure truth.
kotipuka 31st October 2005	Bulgaria is very old country. Officially founded in 681 year with the name Bulgaria. Never been a part of USSR. About the names that sounds like Russian ones - see may be you not believe me, but when Bulgarians have these names Russia event doesn't exist! About Cyrillic alphabet - it is created in 7-8 century by brothers Cyril and Methodist. Mother - Slavianic, father - Greek. Populated and accepted by Bulgarian kings. Accepted as a official writting rule also for the church, translating all holly books in Cyrillic. Now Russia is a very powerful country, but at this moment(7-8 century)it wasn't the same. Russia still didn't exist! Bulgarian's are official christian country from year 855 AD. Let stop. You can read more about Bulgarian history at: http://www.bulgaria.com/history/bulgaria/
Bulgarian 7th September 2005	Hi cc and all other, It is not always necessary smoller countries to accept the culture of bigger ones. Using the same logic as yours we could say that in the past Britain was part of the USA and British accepted the language and alphabet by the Americans.