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Bulgaria: Birthplace Of Spartacus
By Don Kiselewski, MCC, B.C. Stephen Guide, a
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Bulgarian-American of the
Travel Leaders Institute of Transcendental
Long before Bulgaria Analysis, claimed that he
received its name, this had deciphered the tablets.
land area bordering the However, I along with many
Black Sea between Turkey, others haven’t heard or read
Romania, Serbia, Macedonia the transcript.
and Greece was known as The Thracian civilization,
Thrace. Its people were the forerunner to Bulgaria, was
Thracians and they started jointly founded by the Greeks
recording history around and Romans. Romans had
3500 B.C. The artwork – especially that which was produced the command by the end
in gold – is considered by archeologists to be the oldest in of the first century A.D. At
the world, dating back some 6,500 years. the decline of the empire,
Not only does Bulgaria have some of the oldest pieces of the Goths, Avars, Huns and
gold artwork, it also ranks third in the world for the number of Bulgars invaded. In 679
cultural sites after Greece and Italy. Bulgaria is said to have A.D., the Bulgars crossed A village in the wine region of Melnik, Bulgaria
fostered the world’s first writing system. This claim is based the Danube from the north
on the engraved and took control of the area.
stones known as the Although the country was
Gradeshnitsa tablets named after the Bulgars,
based on the location the language and culture
where they are of the people died out.
kept. Gradeshnitsa It was supplanted by the
Monastery, also Slavic language, religion
known as St. Ioan, and writing. Boris the
is located in the First adopted Orthodox
northwest corner of Christianity for the country
the country. These in 865. Bulgaria is the
tablets were found birthplace of the Cyrillic Bulgarian town of Sozopol
in 1969 and are alphabet, the second most
examples of late widely used alphabet in the world. The language was them back their independence. This came about as a result
Neolithic proto- developed in the 10 century. of Turkey’s loss in the Russo-Turkish War (1877 to 1878).
th
w riting know n Twice in their history, the Bulgars conquered the majority This move by Russia worried the countries of Europe, fearing
as “Old European of the Balkan Peninsula between 836 and 1260. However, the total dominance of the Balkans by the two nations. The
Script.” The they were defeated by the Ottoman Empire in 1396, Congress of Berlin (1878) broke up the area, carving out a
tablets were dated A cat perches outside an old home becoming a Turkish province until 1876. It was the Russians small principality for Bulgaria, which was ruled by Alexander
to around 500 in the village of Bozenci, Bulgaria that forced Turkey to release its hold on Bulgaria, giving of Battenburg, a nephew of the Russian czar.
Bulgaria fought several Balkan wars against the Turks
and their allies. The second war cost Bulgaria all that it
had achieved in area from the first war, surrendering to
the Turks. Again Bulgaria came up on the wrong side in
a war, siding with Germany in World War I. They had
hoped to gain Macedonia as a conquest, but when the
effort failed, King Ferdinand abdicated in favor of his son
Boris III in 1918. Boris III squandered the assets of the
country and assumed dictatorial powers in 1934 to 1935.
Bulgaria sure didn’t know how to pick them, because
they became an ally of Germany again in WWII. This
time the Russians, once their ally, took over and imposed
a communist coalition that took control of the country in
September 1944.
Traditional Bulgarian cuisine Two children in a traditional Bulgarian costumes at the Surva
fair, which is held annually in Pernik, Bulgaria Bulgaria on page 9
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