A VIDEO OF SOFIA BULGARIA...

BULGARIA IS AN ANCIENT COUNTRY... WHEN THE "TURKIC" BULGARS ARRIVED IN THE REGION OF BULGARIA...THE SLAVS WERE ALREADY PRESENT...

THE TWO PEOPLE INTERMARRIED...AND FORMED THE BULGARIAN NATION. BULGARIANS WERE THE FIRST SLAVS TO ACCEPT ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY...AND THEY WHERE VERY CLOSE TO CONSTANTINOPLE....AS WAS KIEV...WHICH ALSO ACCEPT ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY ABOUT THE SAME TIME.

THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET WAS "INVENTED" TO ALLOW BULGARIANS TO READ THE BIBLE IN "OLD SLAVONIC" ...WHICH WAS THE LANGUAGE OF THE SLAVS AT THAT TIME...

SADLY BULGARIA WAS CONQUERED BY THE TURKS IN THE 1300'S...AND WAS DOMINATED BY THE OTTOMAN'S FOR ANOTHER 500 YEARS...! THIS IS NOT UNLIKE THE FATE THAT POLAND SUFFERED IN THE 1770'S WHEN THE POLISH KINGDOM WAS MORE OR LESS ABOLISHED UNTIL AFTER 1918...

AND OF COURSE KIEV WAS THE VICTIM OF THE TATARS IN THE 1240'S...WHICH CAUSED THE RUS' TRIBES TO MIGRATE NORTHWARD TOWARD SUZAL, VLADIMIR...AND FINALLY TO MOSCOW...

TRAPPED BETWEEN THE ASIAN STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EAST AND THE "ROMANIZED" TEUTONIC TRIBES IN THE WEST...MANY "PEACEFUL" SLAVIC NATIONS HAD A PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE...UNTIL RECENT TIMES...