Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria ranks 42nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind South Africa, Uruguay, and Slovakia. Memorable people born in present day Bulgaria include Aesop, Flavius Aetius, and Belisarius. Memorable people who died in Bulgaria include Baba Vanga, Decius, and Baldwin I, Latin Emperor. Bulgaria has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players.

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi) and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna. Read more on Wikipedia