Bulgarian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Cyril and Methodius with the correct year: In ______, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
  2. Complete the sentence about Cyril and Methodius with the correct year: In ______, the first Slav pope, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia.
  3. Complete the sentence about Cyrillic script with the correct year: As of ______, around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia acco…
  4. Complete the sentence about Cyrillic script with the correct year: With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union in ______, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, foll…
  5. Complete the sentence about Samuel of Bulgaria with the correct year: But from ______, he was forced mainly to defend the Empire against the superior Byzantine armies.
  6. Complete the sentence about Samuel of Bulgaria with the correct year: Samuel died of a heart attack on 6 October ______, two months after the catastrophic battle of Kleidion.
  7. Complete the sentence about Second Bulgarian Empire with the correct year: Until ______, the Second Bulgarian Empire was the dominant power in the Balkans, defeating the Byzantine Empire in several ma…
  8. Complete the sentence about Second Bulgarian Empire with the correct year: In ______, Emperor Kaloyan defeated the newly established Latin Empire in the Battle of Adrianople.
  9. Complete the sentence about Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria with the correct year: Ivan Asen and the Emperor of Nicaea, John III Vatatzes, concluded an alliance against the Latin Empire at their meeting in _…
  10. Complete the sentence about Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria with the correct year: The Pope did not acknowledge Kaloyan's claim to the title of emperor, but a papal legate crowned Kaloyan king in Tarnovo on…
  11. Complete the sentence about Battle of Klokotnitsa with the correct year: After the death of the Latin emperor Robert of Courtenay in ______, Ivan Asen II was considered the most probable choice for re…
  12. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Bulgaria with the correct year: In ______ the Ottoman autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia unified through a bloodless coup with the Principality of Bulgaria.
  13. Complete the sentence about Vasil Levski with the correct year: Vasil Levski was born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on 18 July ______ in the town of Karlovo, within the Ottoman Empire's European province of Ru…
  14. Complete the sentence about Vasil Levski with the correct year: An eminent but struggling local craftsman, Ivan Kunchev died in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Hristo Botev with the correct year: In ______, his father failed to reach an agreement with the Kalofer district about his salary and moved to Karlovo.
  16. Complete the sentence about Hristo Botev with the correct year: In ______, Petkov accused the administration of the Karlovo district of embezzling money that had been bequeathed to the school and then…
  17. Complete the sentence about Georgi Rakovski with the correct year: In ______, he was sentenced to death whilst involved in revolutionary plans against the Turks, but thanks to a Greek friend, he manag…
  18. Complete the sentence about Georgi Rakovski with the correct year: A year-and-a-half later, he returned to Kotel, only to be arrested again in ______ and sent to Constantinople for seven years of soli…
  19. Complete the sentence about Georgi Rakovski with the correct year: Considered to be one of the first Bulgarian literary poems, it was not actually published until ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Liberation of Bulgaria with the correct year: On 6 September ______, Eastern Rumelia became part of the Principality of Bulgaria after a bloodless unification.
  21. Complete the sentence about Liberation of Bulgaria with the correct year: Although the principality was a de facto independent nation, it was de jure a vassal of the Ottoman Empire until ______, when…
  22. Complete the sentence about Treaty of San Stefano with the correct year: Salisbury wrote at the end of ______ 'We shall set up a rickety sort of Turkish rule again south of the Balkans.
  23. Complete the sentence about Congress of Berlin with the correct year: Continuing nationalism in the Balkans was a major factor for the First World War in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Congress of Berlin with the correct year: The Congress was solicited by Russia's rivals, particularly Austria-Hungary and Britain, and was hosted in ______ by Bismarck.
  25. Complete the sentence about Principality of Bulgaria with the correct year: After the Russo-Turkish War ended with a Russian victory, the Treaty of San Stefano was signed by Russia and the Ottoman Emp…
  26. Complete the sentence about Principality of Bulgaria with the correct year: In ______, a bloodless revolution resulted in Eastern Rumelia being de facto annexed by Bulgaria, which the Ottoman Empire a…
  27. Complete the sentence about Principality of Bulgaria with the correct year: In ______ the Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars ended with the fall of the Bulgarian Empire, due to the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans…
  28. Complete the sentence about Principality of Bulgaria with the correct year: The Treaty of San Stefano of March 3, ______, proposed a Bulgarian state, which comprised the geographical regions of Moesia…
  29. Complete the sentence about Alexander of Battenberg with the correct year: The Bulgarian Grand National Assembly elected him as Prince of autonomous Bulgaria in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Alexander of Battenberg with the correct year: Unification with Eastern Rumelia was achieved and recognised by the powers in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Alexander of Battenberg with the correct year: A coup carried out by pro-Russian Bulgarian Army officers forced him to abdicate in September ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Alexander of Battenberg with the correct year: The last years of his life he spent principally at Graz, where he held a local command in the Austrian army, and where he die…
  33. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I of Bulgaria with the correct year: Ferdinand was born on 26 February ______ in Vienna, a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry.
  34. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand I of Bulgaria with the correct year: The previous ruling prince of Bulgaria, Alexander of Battenberg, had abdicated in ______ after a pro-Russian coup, only seven…
  35. Complete the sentence about Unification of Bulgaria with the correct year: The BSCRC, formed by Zahari Stoyanov, began actively popularizing the idea of unification by means of the press and public de…
  36. Complete the sentence about Balkan Wars with the correct year: The war set the stage for the July crisis of ______ and was a prelude to the First World War.
  37. Complete the sentence about Bulgaria in World War I with the correct year: Bulgaria's defeat in the Second Balkan War in ______ turned revanchism into a foreign policy focus.
  38. Complete the sentence about Bulgaria in World War I with the correct year: When the First World War started in July ______, Bulgaria, still recovering from the economic and demographic damage of the B…
  39. Complete the sentence about Bulgaria in World War I with the correct year: Bulgaria entered the war on the side of the Central Powers, invading Serbia in October ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Bulgaria in World War I with the correct year: Forced to seek peace, Bulgaria requested an armistice with the Allies on 24 September ______, accepting it five days later.
  41. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine with the correct year: The treaty was signed on 27 November ______, in Neuilly-sur-Seine in the Hauts-de-Seine department, just west of Paris in…
  42. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine with the correct year: Bulgaria subsequently permanently regained Southern Dobruja as a result of the Treaty of Craiova in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Boris III of Bulgaria with the correct year: Under the ______ Treaty of Neuilly, Bulgaria was forced to cede various territories, pay crippling war reparations, and greatly…
  44. Complete the sentence about Boris III of Bulgaria with the correct year: Boris opposed the Zveno government and overthrew them in ______, eventually installing Georgi Kyoseivanov as prime minister.
  45. Complete the sentence about Boris III of Bulgaria with the correct year: In ______, Nazi sympathizer Bogdan Filov replaced Kyoseivanov as prime minister, becoming the last prime minister to serve unde…
  46. Complete the sentence about Boris III of Bulgaria with the correct year: In September ______, with the support of Nazi Germany, Bulgaria received the region of Southern Dobrudja from Romania as part o…
  47. Complete the sentence about Boris III of Bulgaria with the correct year: In January ______, Boris approved the antisemitic Law for Protection of the Nation, which denied citizenship to Bulgarian Jews…
  48. Complete the sentence about Bulgaria in World War II with the correct year: The Red Army entered Bulgaria on 8 September ______; Bulgaria declared war on Germany the next day.
  49. Complete the sentence about Georgi Dimitrov with the correct year: In ______, Dimitrov led a failed communist uprising against the government of Aleksandar Tsankov and was subsequently forced into exi…
  50. Complete the sentence about Georgi Dimitrov with the correct year: Dimitrov rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the ______ Reichstag fire trial.
  51. Complete the sentence about Georgi Dimitrov with the correct year: In ______, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile and was elected prime minister of the newly founded People's Republi…
  52. Complete the sentence about People's Republic of Bulgaria with the correct year: On 12 July ______ with the new Constitution of Bulgaria all the symbols of the People's Republic of Bulgaria were offic…
  53. Complete the sentence about People's Republic of Bulgaria with the correct year: On 1 March ______, the Kingdom of Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact, and officially became a member of the Axis.
  54. Complete the sentence about People's Republic of Bulgaria with the correct year: In ______, the anti-Axis resistance movement Fatherland Front was formed from a mixture of Communists, Socialists, left…
  55. Complete the sentence about Todor Zhivkov with the correct year: The exact date of Zhivkov's birth was in dispute within Zhivkov's family, as his mother insisted that he had been born on 20 September…
  56. Complete the sentence about Petar Stoyanov with the correct year: After graduating from secondary school, Stoyanov entered the Saint Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia law faculty where he graduated…
  57. Complete the sentence about Petar Stoyanov with the correct year: In ______ Stoyanov joined the country's first post-communist government as Deputy Minister of Justice.
  58. Complete the sentence about Petar Stoyanov with the correct year: In May ______ Stoyanov became a President of the UDF Legal Council.
  59. Complete the sentence about Petar Stoyanov with the correct year: In ______ he became Deputy Chairman of UDF, responsible for domestic policy.
  60. Complete the sentence about Georgi Parvanov with the correct year: Georgi Parvanov was born in Sirishtnik, Pernik Province on June 28, ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Georgi Parvanov with the correct year: Parvanov joined the Institute for History of the Bulgarian Communist Party as a researcher in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Rosen Plevneliev with the correct year: Plevneliev studied at Blagoevgrad Mathematical and Natural Sciences High School, from which he graduated in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Rosen Plevneliev with the correct year: After the political changes, in ______, Plevneliev started a private building company in Bulgaria.
  64. Complete the sentence about Rosen Plevneliev with the correct year: Plevneliev became Minister of Regional Development and Public Works under Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Djankov on 27 July ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Rumen Radev with the correct year: Radev was born on 18 June ______ in Dimitrovgrad during the period of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
  66. Complete the sentence about Rumen Radev with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from the Mathematical School in Haskovo with a gold medal.
  67. Complete the sentence about Boyko Borisov with the correct year: On 17 March ______, Borisov was detained after allegations of misuse of EU funds; he was released after spending 24 hours in prison.
  68. Complete the sentence about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with the correct year: Bulgaria joined the Axis Powers in ______ during World War II, when Simeon was heir apparent to the throne.
  69. Complete the sentence about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with the correct year: After the death of his father Boris III, Simeon became Tsar of Bulgaria in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with the correct year: Simeon lived in Egypt until Francoist Spain granted him asylum in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with the correct year: The Soviet-installed People's Republic of Bulgaria would last until the fall of Communism in Bulgaria in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union with the correct year: In ______, a treaty included Socialist Republic of Romania in the Community's Generalized System of Prefe…
  73. Complete the sentence about Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union with the correct year: The findings were reflected in the ______ Regular Report for Bulgaria and Romania.
  74. Complete the sentence about Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union with the correct year: The Brussels European Council of 17 December ______ confirmed the conclusion of accession negotiations wi…
  75. Complete the sentence about Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union with the correct year: The issue was decisively resolved in favour of Bulgaria at the ______ EU Summit in Lisbon, allowing Bulga…
  76. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian lev with the correct year: Lion images on revolutionary flags, used in the ______ April uprising, demonstrate that the lion continued to be considered as a nation…
  77. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian lev with the correct year: The lev was introduced as Bulgaria's currency in ______ with a value equal to the French franc.
  78. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian lev with the correct year: Until ______, Bulgaria's silver and gold coins were issued to the same specifications as those of the Latin Monetary Union.
  79. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Bank with the correct year: On 25 January ______, the Russian Imperial Commissar in Bulgaria, Knyaz Alexander Dondukov-Korsakov, approved the Charter of…
  80. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Bank with the correct year: On 4 April ______, the first BNB Governor was appointed, on 23 May the Bank was officially opened, and on 6 June it carried o…
  81. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Bank with the correct year: The Law on the right to mint coins in the Principality was passed in ______, and it instituted the Bulgarian national currenc…
  82. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Bank with the correct year: The Law on the foundation of the BNB and the new Charter, both passed in ______, reorganised the Bank, granting it monopoly o…
  83. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: The Bulgarian National Assembly was established in ______ with the Tarnovo Constitution.
  84. Complete the sentence about President of Bulgaria with the correct year: The president of Bulgaria has a number of functions and powers that are regulated in Chapter 4 of the ______ Constitution of Bu…
  85. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Bulgaria with the correct year: The current constitution was adopted on 12 July ______ by the 7th Grand National Assembly of Bulgaria, and defines the count…
  86. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Bulgaria with the correct year: Chronologically, it is the fourth constitution of Bulgaria, the first being the Tarnovo Constitution of ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Armed Forces with the correct year: Bulgaria joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on 29 March ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Exarchate with the correct year: A meeting of the Bulgarian leaders in Constantinople chaired by Gavril Krastevich is convened on March 13, ______ to elect ten ci…
  89. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Exarchate with the correct year: In ______, the Tarnovo Constitution formally established the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the national religion of the nation.
  90. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Exarchate with the correct year: As a consequence of the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine in ______, the Bulgarian Exarchate was deprived of its dioceses in Macedonia…
  91. Complete the sentence about Varna Necropolis with the correct year: The site was accidentally discovered in October ______ by excavator operator Raycho Marinov.
  92. Complete the sentence about Varna Necropolis with the correct year: In ______, some gold objects were included in a major and broadly advertised national exhibition of antique gold treasures in both S…
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Boris I of Bulgaria? The only direct evidence of Boris's title are his seals and the inscription found near the town of Ballsh, modern Albania, and at ______.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Ottoman Bulgaria? From the 14th century until the 19th century ______ was an important administrative centre in the Ottoman Empire.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Georgi Parvanov? Georgi Parvanov was born in Sirishtnik, ______ Province on June 28, 1957.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Rosen Plevneliev? Plevneliev studied at ______ Mathematical and Natural Sciences High School, from which he graduated in 1982.
  97. Which place completes the sentence? In 1982, he graduated from the Mathematical School in ______ with a gold medal.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Bulgarian lev? The oldest images, found on slates in the city of ______, date back to the 9th–10th century AD.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Varna Necropolis? The gold artifacts from the ______ Chalcolithic necropolis are assumed to be the "oldest gold of mankind" according to their total volume an…
  100. Complete the sentence about Vasil Levski with the correct year: In ______, he topped a nationwide television poll as the all-time greatest Bulgarian.

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