The population of Bulgaria is 6,999,908 people. The total area of the state is 110,993 km². It borders with Romania in the north, Serbia and Macedonia in the west, Greece and Turkey in the south and the Black Sea in the east. The capital of Bulgaria is the city of Sofia. The official language is Bulgarian. The bulk of the country's population are Bulgarians. Turks and Roma are national minorities.
According to the Bulgarian constitution, the state religion of Bulgaria is Orthodoxy. The majority of the population (about 78%) profess Orthodoxy.
The ancient inhabitants of the territory of Bulgaria are the Thracians. M. that It was conquered by the Romans in the 1st century. In the 3rd century, the invasion of the northern barbarian tribes into the Balkans began. Bulgarians are southern Slavs. They have lived in the northeast of the Balkan Peninsula since ancient times. Throughout their history they fought for independence, first against Byzantium and then against the Ottoman Empire. Bulgaria was under the Ottoman yoke for about 500 years, from which it was liberated on March 3, 1878, and this day is considered the day of Bulgarian independence.
At 6,000 years old, Bulgaria's Plovdiv is considered the oldest city ever inhabited in Europe. The most ancient inhabitants of the modern territory of Bulgaria, about whom there is accurate information, were the Thracians, Indo-European tribes who lived here in the year a. 1st millennium. M. year In the 1st century, the Thracian lands became part of the Roman Empire and were divided between the provinces of Thrace and Myosia.
The first Bulgar state about which correct historical information has been preserved was Great Bulgaria, a state that for several decades was united by the Bulgars and other tribes in the Black Sea and Azov steppes. The capital of the state was Phanagoria, and its founder and ruler was Khan Kubrat.

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