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Hint
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Answer
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A
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Founder of First Bulgarian Empire
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Asparuh
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B
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Holds the title "The Bulgar slayer"
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Basil II
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C
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The creator of the Cyrillic alphabeth
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Clement of Ohrid
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D
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Region that was given to Bulgaria in 1940 after the Treaty of Craiova
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Dobruja
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E
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Province that united with Bulgaria in 1885,sparkling the following Serbo-Bulgarian war
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Eastern Rumelia
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F
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Pro-communist political resistant movement which took power in September 1944
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Fatherland front
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G
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Bulgarian revolutionary and writer,oldest military institution is named after him
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Georgi Rakovski
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H
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National fighter and a poet,hijacked the Austrian steamship Radetzky
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Hristo Botev
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I
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Rebel leader who led the "peasant uprising".
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Ivaylo of Bulgaria
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J
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Ottoman elite infantry unit,formed by christian children from the Balkans
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Janissaries
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K
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Tsar,who managed to weaken the Latin Empire; Battle of Adrianople;Youngest brother of the Asen dynasty
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Kaloyan
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L
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City that was sieged for 3 months by the brothers Asen and Petar in 1187
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Lovech
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M
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Famous medieval rock carving protected by UNESCO
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Madara rider
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N
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Byzantine emperor whose head was used as a wine cup from khan Krum
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Nicephorus I
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O
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Khan knows as "The builder"
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Omurtag
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P
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Writer of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya; key figure of the Bulgarian National Revival.
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Paisius of Hilendar
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Q
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Italian princess who married Tsar Boris III,mother to Simeon II
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Queen Giovanna
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R
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Largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. Named after the highest mountain
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Rila monastery
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S
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Tsar who established the Golden Age of Bulgaria
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Simeon I
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T
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Ancient region once inhabited by one of the oldest known cultures in the Balkans
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Thrace
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U
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Novel by Ivan Vazov in which are described peoples daily life,months before the April Uprising
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Under the Yoke
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V
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Capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (modern day name)
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Veliko Tarnovo
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W
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Name of the Eastern Bloc coalition in which Bulgaria took part
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Warsaw pact
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X
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Century in which both Vidin and Tarnovo Tsardoms fell to the Ottoman empire
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XIV
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Y
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Bulgarian writer who participated in both Balkan wars,known as "master of short story"
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Yordan Yovkov
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Z
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The longest-serving leader of any European Eastern Bloc nation (35 years)
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Todor Zhivkov
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