SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Bulgaria is close to realizing its decades-old goal of joining the euro currency union and deepening ties ...

Hinov wrote in the preface: "If there was such a book in medieval Bulgaria, we would have a comprehensive knowledge about people's lifestyle, culture and art, and language habits of the Second ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

This meant that the Kingdom of Thessalonica was mostly caught up in the disputes, conflicts, and overall machinations and politics of the Latin Empire itself. The kingdom additionally faced numerous ...

1018-1185 - Bulgaria comes under Byzantine rule. 1185-1396 - Second Bulgarian Empire. A dominant power in the Balkans, defeating the Byzantine Empire in several major battles, it reaches its peak ...

1018-1185 - Bulgaria comes under Byzantine rule. 1185-1396 - Second Bulgarian Empire. A dominant power in the Balkans, defeating the Byzantine Empire in several major battles, it reaches its peak ...

Southern Bessarabia, which spans parts of modern-day Ukraine and Moldova, was part of the First Bulgarian Empire (681-1018) and briefly the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396). The Bulgarians valued ...

The defeat brought about the end of the Orthodox Second Bulgarian Empire – and brought the Ottomans to the threshold of central Europe. It also increased the pressure domestically on the already ...

Experience Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine Empire eras in the ancient cities of Sozopol, the UNESCO Heritage Site Nessebar, and Veliko Tarnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom that brims ...