The first strain osidlujícím Bulgaria were Thracians (Aryan strain). Thracians in Bulgaria were active until about 500 AD, when the North began to enter from the Slavs. Exactly 100 years on the territory invaded Asian Bulgarians. The current Bulgarian nation is therefore actually a mixture of all these nations.
By 1878, Bulgaria had, despite frequent rebellion under the dominion of Turkey. After the Russo-Turkish War, the Berlin Congress of Great Powers agreed to the Bulgarian principality. The throne when he joined Alexander Battenberský, who in 1885 managed to join Eastern Rumelia to Bulgaria, a year later but was overthrown and was succeeded by Prince Ferdinand I Koburský.
Bulgaria in 1912 even attended 1st Balkan wars. Then, together with Serbia, Greece and Montenegro defeated Turkey. Bulgaria won that part of Macedonia and the area around Adrianople. But what Bulgaria won, it lost in the 2nd Balkan War in 1913, when it rallied against all of its previous allies.
V 1 World War, Bulgaria lost access to the Aegean Sea.
Since 1944, Bulgaria was then occupied by Soviet troops. Ordinary people had lost their personal freedom, and those who have criticized the local conditions, were sentenced to death or forced labor in labor camps. With the help of the Soviet Union there was the 15th September 1946 the State called the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Bulgaria has in the years undergone economic revolution, collectivization of agriculture and the economy began to plan in pětiletkách.
The first democratic elections were held here in 1990. From this year, most Bulgarians are now living in cities where they work mainly in factories, focusing on textile and engineering industries.
Bulgaria is now primarily dependent on tourism and foreign trade. Exporting mainly wine, tobacco, minerals, textiles and foodstuffs.
