The History of Bulgaria Explained
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- The History of Bulgaria Summarized
Bulgarian History from Ancient to Modern times explained
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As a Romanian, I have much love for the Bulgarian people. This video was a great overview of Bulgaria’s rich history. I’m happy to see you back Epimetheus!
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They hate u man. Sorry to let you know that
Love from Bulgaria bro!!! 🇧🇬❤🇷🇴
They are the worst traitors and backstabbers in balkans
It was actually very shallow interpretation mostly wikipedia stuff. It's as if a Bulgarian would be able to tell Greek or Romanian history better than a local. Good attenpt though. If Bulgarians weren't lazy we could make a very good video. This Mongols story is very misleading, but I'm bored to go into details.
Much love from Bulgaria. Romania is our favorite neighbor ❤
I was born in Romania and my grandmother was Bulgarian. I will always consider Bulgarians as our brothers. We use to be one people, one country, one empire. Despite many changes in the teritory and that's most about Dobrogea, we don't have to be enemies. That is what the powerful countries wants us to be : divided and against each other. Peace brothers. Love you all.
I am bulgarian and have been to Constanta and Bucharest more than 20 times. I love both cities alot! I do share your philosophy of brotherhood and friendship between ro and bg! Greetings my brother!
@@radoslavpetrov6841 thank you so much blagodariam ti bratko 🇷🇴 🇧🇬
@@RobertMihalache my pleasure bratko! To be honest mitcis are better than kebapcheta! I am a very big fan of mitci!
@@radoslavpetrov6841 hahaha but both of them are good especially after a hard day at work
@@RobertMihalache Small correction - it's ''Благодаря ти, братко'' not ''благодарям'' just note that.
Much to Bulgaria from their southern neighbor
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Thanks Brother! We love you too!
efharisto neighbor
Respect to.our southern neighbour
Kako su amerikanci naseleli amerika
I love Greece and greek people. Kiss from Bulgaria
I left Bulgaria as a child but never stopped being a Bulgarian. Thank you for that, really enjoyed it all Love to all surrounding nations great history
Не си личиш, че си българин
@@HeroManNick132 zashto?
@@HeroManNick132 интересно ми е как разбра това от един коментар който разкри почти нищо?
To be Bulgarian - this is a state of mind and soul. Only few reach it :)
@@sofbeobulser7099 purvo e yasno che ne snaesh nishto za evreiskata religia. mayka mi e bulgarka bashta mi e bulgarin s evreiska rozda, obache za da si evrein tryabva mayka ti da e evreika a ne bashta ti - sushtoto i za nego- moyata baba e bulgarka bez evreiska rozda. taka ili taka az sum rodem v Bulgaria i zivea v israel - koeto me pravi izreletz a ne evrein. i tuk v israel az ne sum evrein....po dobre se uchi predi da govorish tupotii!!!
12:49 The brothers didn't create the cyrilic, they created the glagolithic script for Greater Moravia. Later, their students, after being ousted from Greater Moravia by the germanic, catholic, bishops, fled to Bulgaria and brought the script with them. Then, they created the cyrilic script in Preslav. Also, Omurtag and Krum were the first to begin the process of unification of the state - by creating the first written laws and one common administrative division of the country.
I just wanted to type that.
Yeah, they are called the Seven Saints of Bulgaria. Свети Седмочисленици.
Climent, Naum, Gorazd, Sava and Angelarius created the Cyrillic script.
It is also kirilik not sirilik.
Kirilica Alphabet was created by the Macedonian Brothers Kiril I Metodij ....nothing to do with the Bulgarians
@Ž Š They were the most prominent and the ones that survived long enough to teach. The others died soon after they arrived in Bulgaria(or before. Gorazd died while on the way if i am not mistaken).
A note: the Cyrillic alphabet was not created by Cyril and Methodious. They created the glagolitic alphabet and when they fled to Bulgaria, Bulgaria welcomed them as scholars. A school was established by Bulgaria at those times, the Preslav school. There studied the 5 Bulgarian students that were Cyril and Methodious's puppets after they settled in Bulgaria. These 5 students created the Cyrillic alphabet and named it after their teacher Cyrill. In Bulgaria we honor them as Свети Седмочисленици[Sveti Sedmochislenitsi] meaning the holly seven.
Their students went to Bulgaria , exiled from Great Moravia, not them.
@@peev2 Climet and Naum are bulgarians they were not exiled
Why holly seven when they were 5?
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Ciril , Methodius , Kliment, Naum ,Gorazd Sava and Angelarij !
No-one was Bulgarian Tengrist .
The author of this video is a complete mook
I have worked with many bulgarians in london. They are hard working and honest, some of my favourite people
also Russian spies, recently in London they revealed a network of 6 Bulgarians who worked for the Russian services!
@@Ivan-ye8ud yes of course all of the country are russian spies , good job you uncovered us all.
@@Ivan-ye8udnot all. I’m Bulgarian and support Ukraine 🇺🇦. Putin is a cold blooded murderer and needs to be stopped. A lot of Russian people will tell you that too. 🫶
Respect for Bulgaria and Bulgarians, from Romania! A country with a rich but turbulent historical past, at the confluence of empires and cultures, Bulgaria has endured and I am convinced it will have a future. Although we speak different languages and have different origins, I feel that in addition to having the same religion, we also have a very similar culture. A Romanian and a Bulgarian can collaborate very easily. I wish for the border between us to disappear and for us to build as many bridges over the Danube as possible. Maybe together we will manage to make the other peoples of the Balkans become friends and rise up, because all Balkans are essentially welcoming people.
Honestly unification between Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova is more likely to happen compared to our people that got brainwashed during Yugoslavia a.k.a. the ''Macedonians'' which are not even Macedonians to begin with it.
If that's the case then the Roma/gypsy people are Ancient Romans which is absurd.
@@HeroManNick132 I am sorry to read this. I am also sorry for the conflict between Greece and Turkey, I also regret the too many inter-ethnic conflicts in the Balkans. No country can develop alone, real development can only be regional. Too many centuries have divided our empires! And speaking of Turks, although I am an Orthodox Christian, not a Muslim, I trust a Turk more than an Austrian! A Turk treats me as his equal, as I treat him, while an Austrian considers himself superior to me from the start, without knowing me. Not everyone is like that, but over 50% consider themselves to have blue blood.
@@mirceadraga7421 First of all must leave the things you said about the turks ,austrians and these kind of garbage cause i do not care about this fake and deceiving history of europe and the world as a whole , which most blinded people of today believe
I care about what you said that you are orthodox christian
and you must know someone is not christian because of his/her etnisity . The person is christian (follower of Christ ) when He/She is commited in believing in Jesus The Son of THE Living GOD , and Believing in His Holy words in the Gospels and throughout the whole Bible.
AND it is that we no matter of our etnicity we are sinners ,enemyes ofGod ,who is Holy and Rightious , and because of our Evil nature of betrail of HIM, we will suffer Devine judgement in the end of this sinful world. That is way God's onlybegotten Son came to save us ,and He did , and now everyone ,again from every counry and nation with no exeption, can if he/she BELIEVE in Jesus THE Christ ( Messiah of the whole world) can Be Saved and free from JUDGEMENT , Because Jesus payed and suffered in our place already . Just BELIEVE people , do not deny . there is no time left to be ateisths.Jesus is coming .Glory to GOD ALmighty.
Founders of all European nations are Aryas. In 1k BCs Cimme-Arya, Saka Sauromata, Alani Roxolani, Kushan, Wushun, Xiangno, Tocha-Arya, conquered great steppe & Europe from India-Iran region when Vedics/Aryas already conquered upto Anatolia (Mittani-Hatti-Hari) in 2k BCs. Imagine monarchies of Europe started coming 1300 years later than the Saka empire of 700 BCs. All later conquerors of central Asia steppe Europe descended from them, they're R1a1aY/R1a1Y, this is Arya marker, didn't exist in steppe & Europe before 1k BCs. Whites (Celt R1bY, Vened or old Slavic R1aY) would've stayed under b00ts of Turk Mongol Arab had there not been Aryas.
Proven conquest of west by Aryas.👇
"In 2k BCs Mittani-Hatti-Hari conquered upto Anatolia. In 800 BCs CimmeArya, Saka conquered Balkan, Ukraine, Russia. In 500 BCs Parsha conquered Greece, Balkan. In 400 BCs Sauromata, Alani conquered beyond Ukraine all the way to British Irish Isles, remember RgVedic Goddess Danu. In 400 CEs one Alani branch conquered Spain raiding Greece, Italy. In 400 CEs Hun conquered half of Europe descending from Tocha-Arya, Kushan."
Kings warriors of Europe are R1a1aY/R1a1Y, they've turned blonde breeding with Celts Veneds women. Whites are labelled subhum@n by Roman. IBN Fadlan described them f!lthiest of God's creation. R@ping, hum@n s@crifice was their custom.
Not really true about the different origin. We are all kinda mixed in the Balkans. Plus Wallachia was part of Bulgaria during the first and the second Bulgarian empire so we had very close relationship
Big greetings to the Bulgarian brothers from the "Pamir" of Tajikistan.👻 🇹🇯🇧🇬
For a very long time our peoples were divided, but to this day we have a lot in common
Yes Brother,
Bulgarians are Slavisized Iranians
Bulgaria❤Tajikistan
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I think ancient Bulgarians started their journey from Pamir mountains. We are like 1 nation divided by the course of time. Greetings from Sofia, bro :)
BULGARIANS ARE PROUD GIPSY MONGOLS MIXED WITH TURKS
@@vilijamkil5937 AS you say, boss. There are genetic proofs who we are. Go read them then come back and say it again :D
Very beautiful landscapes and music. Love from Greece🇬🇷❤🇧🇬
Thanks boss. Music on the Balkans is indeed very interesting a subject to many cultural influences from the times we hosted pretty much almost all Empires.
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I am very proud, we ruled you as governor for 500 years ;) you still protected your language and religion
@@neotrnty4717 Many empires start and end on the Balkans. For most part people on the Balkans weren't rebelling and tribes were living peacefully within the Ottoman Empire and many families had Janichars in their homes and it is interesting to mention that Janichary in many families was concidered a profession that offers a good status and especially between 16th and 18th century passed from father to son.
Also it is interesting to note that during Ottoman time the Janichars were the strongest military unit of the Empire and when in the 18th century Ottomans stopped hiring man from Christian families as Janichars (due to some outside funded rebbels) the Empire began to loose control over the Balkans and many man around the Balkans saw this as betrayal of the Ottoman family and which resulted in the formation of hajduk groups and breaking the good relationship between Christians and Muslims. It is good to note that Romei villaet was ruled from Sofia and Bitola and that the Balkans was the richest and strongest villaet of the Ottoman Empire.
Bulgarian genesis to this day carries 10% haplogroup J2 which is Anatolian, Iranian, South Caucasian and interestingly comes from haplogroup IJ and therefore it's second dominant is the Aryan genesis.
This haplogenic group was of course enriched also by ancient Hellenic tribes and by Iranians who seems to have come to the Balkans during the Achaemenid Empire as well as from the time Bulgarians lived close to Armenians in the Caucasus region and was also influenced by the Kidar tribe of the Kidarites that lived with ancient Greeks and Iranians in Bactria and that along with some Yuedzhi formed the Utigur tribe that for a brief time was also living next to and ruled under Sandilch by the Gokturk Khaganate.
History and culture of the region is very mixed and rich to which we should be proud.
Thanks for enriching our culture komsolu, if Ottomans allowed more freedoms for the Balkans we could still be one empire. In all honesty I don't believe the Ottoman dinasty was enjoyed very much by Turks either.
In fact Ataturk was greatly influenced by Bulgaria's European lifestyle from his time in Sofia as a military attache in the early 20th century and his was madly in love with general Stilian Kovachev's daughter - Dimitrina Kovacheva and unfortunatelly couldn't convince her father to give them permission to get married although they became friends with general Kovachev. Ataturk himself said, “I left my youth in Bulgaria." just 8 years after he returned from Bulgaria in 1923 he managed to overthrow the Ottomans and become the first president of Turkey.
Ataturk was also very fonded by Bulgarians military culture and even have fought the Bulgarian army in the battle of Bulair where Bulgaria won with a 3 times smaller army to the amazement of Turkish leaders themself.
Now that Turkey becomes a gas hub for Europe and we see that your relations with Syria and Iran are being restored we have plenty of good options to strnghten relations between the Balkans and Middle East especially since Serbia and Hungary might need new gas supplies (that is if Hungary and Russia don't have a new common border soon, although I hope there is some sense left in Ukraine and U.S. leaders and they start talks with Russia). I saw that our president visited Turkey in the beginning of December. Also a news has came that Bulgargaz is in advanced talks with Turkey's gas company Botas so we will benefit from cooperation in the energy field too. Also I heard Turkey is working on a new energy grid with Russia, Iran, Armenia and Azerbaidjan so good things are ahead of us.
Thank you ❤
Sagapo Elada 🇬🇷
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As a Bulgarian, I humbly thank you for creating this. I love the effort you put in it, it's amazing. Thank you.
i love bulgaria, wonderful mix of mongols gipsies and turks RESPECT BRATKO!
Where to eat tho?
Do you think Bulgaria will switch to the latin alphabet in the future ? :D
Never
We are to proud of the Cyrillic alphabet
Love to Our Traco-Geto-Dacian brothers from Romania. Bulgarians will always be close to My heart, awesome people, culture and shared history! And amazing food + legendary known vegetables/pickles.
Multumesc Frate
Bulgaria❤Romania
Today bulgarians have nothing to do with the old thracians.
@@adrianog4148 They have more in common with the Thracians than with the Turanian Bulgarians. See genetics. Bulgaria is Turanian in name only, they are a Thraco-Slavic mixture. The Turanians only gave the name of the country and the ruling elite, being few, disappeared over time and were assimilated by the Slavs.
@@adrianog4148We do. You need to educate yourself.
@@chelsblue7370 you speak which language? which alphabet do you use?
I visited Sofia earlier this year. It was easily one of the nicest, calmest capital cities I've visited.
Glad you liked it! Here things are indeed very calm and most of us can allow ourselves into lazy lifestyle which keeps us content throughout life because during socialism our construction forces, our fathers and grandfathers ❤️, built homes for everyone and most of us born in the 80s and 90s by the time we reach 30 already have at least 1-2 apartments inherited by our great grandparents. (May they rest in peace)
France is not bad either if I had my own flat there I wouldn't mind living in for example Strasbourg as I love the mild weather and the small city vibe which reminds me of my village located in the Rose Valley of Europe - Kazanluk.
The only thing I envy France about are the speed trains. What a wonderful addition the would be for us to have. Hope we get such in the next 2 decades for when I'll be in my late 40s. :)
All EU Cities look the same now
@@jadeysmythe7516 Not really. We're on the outskirt of the EU and we have hosted many empires and EU is a very small period of our country's lifespan.
There's no way to compare the wooden houses in Netherlands to the architecture of Panagyurishte and Koprivshtica. There is no way to compare French Reviera to our Nesebar. There is no way to compare Paris's architecture to our Nazi and USSR influenced architecture of Sofia. EU is very different and even inside the country there are differences all over the place.
@@ia3078 Neeabar At the crossroads of culture, Nessebar was a starting line for many concepts we take for granted today. Originally a Thracian settlement it found its direction only after it became a Greek colony at the beginning of the 6th century BC.
Ah The Magnificent Greeks
I have visited Bulgaria many times, since I live close by in Thrace (Greece). I love the culture, the food, the landscapes. Everything is full of history. People are friendly and easy going! Velico Tarnovo is a must to visit. So is Sofia, Plovdiv, the cities at the coast of the Black Sea (Burgas, Varna). I personally love the mountains and places like Smolian in the south.
Check the castle at Belogradchik Rocks in south-north
MA DEN MBORI NA MENIS STI TRAKI KAI NA MI AKUSIS TRAKIOTIKA NA MI TROS ARNI SUVLA PACA /MANASTIRIKO SIS suvla/ DILADI KOKORECI SKEMBE ........KE NA AKUSIS GAIDA KE NA MI HOREVIS
Eastern Thrace was historically a Bulgarian land, populated by Bulgarian Slavs. Today’s Bulgaria should have an access to Aegean Sea to at least one big port. The area from Xanthi to the port Dedeagach should belong to Bulgaria.
@@gordonpi8674 Let history be history man, I'm Bulgarian and while yeah, it was Bulgarian for a long period of time we should just suck it up, it ain't anymore and that's it. We should look forward to prosperity together than following some of ours insignificant vanity on the subject.
@@sawyersofia7291 did you pay nothing for that place slav? Because we pay blood for that land. Stay in your apartment its ok you have enough land and sea
My girlfriend is bulgarian, she introduced me to this rich culture and I've only been there once but I'm trying to learn Bulgarian and would love to spend an extended period of time there.
My girlfriend, now my wife, is from sofia. I'm also learning bulgarian. It's a beautiful country rich in history and culture. I, too, have only been once, but i will be returning soon!Здравейте!
@@reverendspyder6075Just curious what y'all nationality.
@@reverendspyder6075 any source for Learning Bulgariian ? :)
@@reverendspyder6075 WOW, amazing. Most BG women who marry someone from another country speak his language. It is great you want to learn BGR! We wish you success . But the truth is this language is not popular these days, sadly
I came to Bulgaria nearly 17 years ago, I have never left, not even for a holiday, in fact I rarely leave my little Balkan village. I guess you could say I am a 'Born Again Bulgarian.' Thanks for that concise stroll through the complex history of this wonderful country.
Very interesting. What's the name of the village?
Where are you from originally? Are you fluent in Bulgarian?
@@tattarrrrattat Hi, I am British from Cornwall. My husband and I first moved to Brittany in France and spent five years there but wanted more 'adventure.' We came to Bulgaria and found that every day is an adventure in this country! I speak, read and write Bulgarian and work in the local shop and bar but I have never considered myself fluent in the language, I still get stumped and have to go scrambling for my dictionary.
@@georgitetimov4910 If you don't mind, I would rather not say the name of the village online but it is about 35 kilometres north of Shumen, very hilly and forested. When we first moved here it wasn't on most maps and has no tarmac/asphalt roads, just dust and gravel and side streets of grass.
@@bathsheba.b8656 Thank you for your reply! I am about to move to Bulgaria - have never been. I'm from Ireland and although the more affluent western Europe has lots to offer, it does lack in the 'adventure' you speak of. Glad to hear it has lots.
I'm from Romania but every time when I went in Bulgaria I felt like home, not only the places , but people are the same, like us. Even if I didn't go in Serbia, I believe Serbia is the same and in my opinion, we are all brothers. I felt closer from Bulgarian people than Italian. If I didn't mistake, we share the share name of one city, Targoviste. PS during the Russian Ottoman war ,a very big contribution to freedom of Bulgaria had Romanian Army and history mentioned that without help of Romanian Army , the war would have been lost from Russia.
Same here, bro. Търговия or Targovia means trade and Targovishte is like a trade place, derived from the former Ottoman name of Eski Dzhumaya, which is the Friday market. Other similar names include Slatina meaning salt source or mineral spring (from Slavic). After all, we used to be one country many centuries ago....
@@kosmicheskiprah Please forgive me if I tell you, I don't much about Bulgarian history, but I know our rulers passed many times (Vlad the Impaler, or Mircea the Elder) Danube, in Bulgaria, fought with Turks, Tatars, or other enemies. And releasing land from them. I regret I never was in the middle of Bulgarian culture, I stayed only at hotel, but I heard our food is similar, we share same kind of food, ex. sarmale :) I believe we share many others and of course we shared the same land in the past that we make us brothers. I'm glad to know you! PS when I was child I saw The Independence of Romania movie and in that movie are presented the battles of Plevna or Grivita. Please do not laugh but for me those places were in Romania until I found out they are not. :)
@@florinprisecaru4809 Well read about Romanian language reform and you will get it why you feel so close to home when you visit Bulgaria. Greetings :)
Bravo ,in the centre.we are a one.
@@DimoDim1914 the romanian language reform was not so big as you guys imagine. We just adopted the latin alphabet because it suited better our language since our language is of latin origin. But because we were part of the Bulgarian Empire we got the church organisation from the Bulgarian Empire and we used slovnic language and cylliric alphabet in church, although we were christians before we were part of the Bulgarian Empires, since most of the basic christian words of romanian like church, cross, God etc. is of latin origin. The other more complex words are from slavonic language because we were christians but we had not a good christian church structure before we were part of the Bulgarian Empires. We had just basic christian words of latin origin. However, in the west, the catholic church used latin language in the church and all the western powers of german origin used the latin language in international level. In the eastern word, the eastern countries used slavic language in the church and in the international level. These were the 2 international languages like today is enlgish. Because of this, our language of latin origin was influenced by slavic language, but it is the same as the german language is influence by latin language. Its not such a big thing since we cannot even build a sentence in slavic language because all important and basic words are of latin origin. Its like todays bulgarian language use latin words form english,french,italian like President, , Parlament etc. but you cannot build a sentence in latin language. The same is with us, we have some old slavic words but we cannot build even 1 sentence with words that origin from slavic language and we dont understand bulgarian or serbian language. The language reform of our language only meant the latin alphabet and some latin words that fited better to our language than some remained slavic words that were sounding not right in our language. For example the today romanians can read a document from 16th century and still understand what it was writen, because the language is mostly the same. Only a few slavic words that were not so important were changed for latin words because it didnt fited to the language.
Greetings from Sunny Beach, Burgas for all friends of Bulgaria.
I have spent some month working in this region and I can say, I really like the mentality of Bulgarian people. It seems they are never stressed in any kind, not even in the Winter. Regarding the history, they were stressed enough. I really like the sea and coast area but also the beautiful villages in the Balkan mountains. Have a Happy New Year!
You nailed it!!!! The best video I've ever seen!
Happy new year to you too
@@erzhikaparvanova2388 greater bulgaria love you and otomans and maghiars defendor of east
Здрасти от Seattle. I miss visiting in the summer. I look forward to bringing new Bulgarians home. Is the fishing still good?
i love bulgaria, wonderful mix of mongols gipsies and turks RESPECT BRATKO!
Wow, I had no idea about the rich and complex history of Bulgaria. Learning about the Thracians and their fierce fighting skills was really interesting, and it's amazing to think that there were even Roman generals and emperors of Thracian descent. Thank you for sharing this detailed overview of Bulgaria's past. I can't wait to learn more!
You should know that the Bulgarian culture and history is deliberately hidden, they don't want to know the origin of human civilization. The Bulgarians, called Thracians, as well as the Huns, created the first country and culture on Earth, the oldest processed gold is Bulgarian, the oldest calendar is also older than the Chinese one. The first city inhabited by people to this day is Plovdiv. Check out these facts. The flood described in the Bible happened on Bulgarian soil
Οι Θράκες είναι Έλληνες...οι Βούλγαροι εισήλθαν ως νομάδες από τον Βόλγα...
For 280 years, the empire was ruled, almost entirely, by the Bulgarians. When a Roman came and drastically increased the taxes, forbidden by Constantine the Great, Vitalian raised a rebellion and started the long, liberation war, which reached the signing of the treaty between the Eastern Roman Empire and Bulgaria in 681, in which it is said that we have our lands by right. The beginning is from the time of the Odrisites.
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71. And Vitalian, moreover, who was commander of the troops in the province of Thrace, being a man of perverse heart, hated Severus the saint of God. Now the emperor Anastasius had appointed Severus patriarch of Antioch in the room of the heretic Flavian, whom he had banished, when the orthodox bishops of the east testified in the favour of the former.
72. And Vitalian, whom we have just mentioned, raised a revolt against the emperor Anastasius, and seized Thrace and Scythia and Mysia, and mustered a numerous army. 73. And the emperor sent against him a general named Hypatius. And when they fought together, he was vanquished by Vitalian and taken prisoner. And on the payment of a large ransom he was set free. 74. But immediately on his return to the emperor, the latter removed him from his command, and appointed in his room another general, named Cyril, of the province of Illyria. 75. And he also gave battle to Vitalian, and there was great slaughter on both sides. Cyril the general retired into the city named Odyssus, and stayed there while Vitalian withdrew into the province of Bulgaria.
Greetings from Georgia to Bulgars and Bulgaria.
Bulgarians *
Love Georgia
Bulgars were Turkic in history but bulgarians are slavic.
Recently moved back to Bulgaria after having lived in South Africa all my life. This was a great little snippet of my history and it inspires me to go visit more places and actually see where this history look place. As for favorite drink, the beer is pretty good here, and favorite place is anywhere in the mountains, really beautify!
Greetings from Cape Town! My family loves our summer and winter holidays in Bulgaria!
I have met many Bulgarian people in Eastern Europe over my years and they were all great kind people. I would love to visit there one day! Thanks for the history lesson.
I have visited the capital Sofia and Varna along with Kranevo, Albena (I believe thats what it was called), as well as I have travelled a little through the inland. Bulgaria left a lot of great memories. It was very welcoming country and I had the best time trying some of their local honey. Years later I met a bulgarian guy in the US. He was surprised that I have visited his country but since his english was not very good, I had to speak to him in Russian and English at the same time and we managed to understand each other and had a great time. Great video, thank you.
I have moved this year to Bulgaria, a rich culture and i feel like its becoming my second home now. Bulgaria deserves better than the current state it is still in after Ottoman subjugation and socialism. Much love from a German 🇧🇬🇩🇪♥️
@@naturbursche5540 well, have an angry upvote
All of Balkans have by now already moved to Germany, so it must feel pretty lonely out there lol
Balkans demographics is fascinating to say the least with young people fleeing and only elderly left in place this is an economic implosion in the making, but well, let's see what future has to offer. Maybe Turks will rule over the place once again alongside Syrians and Afghans lmao
Country was in dire poverty in 2004 when I went there sad sad state
If you are the man, living in Varna, I am pretty sure we played volleyball in the summer.
@@roenin it's not that bad
Old enemy now one of our closest allies
I have much respect for the Greek culture as it is an ancient one and has given so much to the world and I'm glad we share borders and history with the Greeks.
True, very colorful relationship. Peace and respect
Allies ? are u kidding me? 🤣
Cos you bough have a newer and stronger enemy - Turkey.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 goofy
Great video, thanks from a Bulgarian 🙏 All love to Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Serbia ❤️
You missed the small Bulgaria ;) !
@@neronvulka3349 XD
@@neronvulka3349 Bulgariskata Territoria Vardar?
@@yazovgaming mmrrssshhhtatar
I visited Bulgaria to play at the Koprivshtista Festival in 2015. It exists to preserve the Bulgarian cultural heritage. I would recommend anyone interest to attend. Shopska Salat and Bop are tasty and healthy dishes.
Bob ;)
‘Alexander died from too much winning’ your deadpan delivery of that line for a good laugh!
"Boris couldn't bring himself to kill his son ...so he had his eyes gouged out instead" personally made my day
Your days are numbered Guts is bringing your date the Dragon Slayer prepare for a nice smooch :P :P
@@X3MCTZN fear not for we are now in the throes of Fantasia
@@pinchevulpes The Skull n Guts are coming.... put Casca down and dismount Zodd n come n face us :P
0:50 the oldest known gold treasure in Europe is found in Varna, 15:07 Kaloyan was nicknamed "roman slayer" after the siege of Varna in 1201 when he ordered the greek garrison be thrown in the ditch in front of the city walls and buried alive and in 1444 a the decisive battle of a crusade happened near Varna. Greeting from the Black sea! Great video!!
Some background to this. Kaloyan was a hostage in cobsyantinopke during his youth. He likely did not have much fond memories su.ilatly like vlad the impaler despised the ottomans as he was a hostage there when he was young.
Кажи ми, че си от Варна без да казваш, че си от Варна
@@momchilgenev3145 По една случайност е така :D
As a Bulgarian, I am really impressed of how well you pronounce the names of the Khans 😊 great video, thank you for showing people our rich history
"Айван Азен"😭
@@user-xg4wp9cb8m*_Иван Асен не е бил Кан, а Цар (който той нарича Крал). Няма по висока Титла от Кан! Буквите А,И,С са много сложни за произнасяне от чужденците. Не го опреквам. Езикът ни е сложен._*
They were bulgars. Not slavic. You would not know the correct pronounciation to be able to congratulate him.
@@MalikMalikin-lb6tk bulgars is latin word for bulgarian
@@cruelty5780 no. Bulgars were an Asiatic turkic tribe. The Bulgarians adopted their name after the Bulgar rulers wre either assimilated or driven out by slavs.
I visit Bulgaria alot as my grandfather is Bulgarian, I just REALLY fucking love the yogurt, I'm not just popularizing and adopting popular stuff, it's salty, yet cold and fluffy, with a mix of berry jam, it's heaven, I've honestly never enjoyed my visit to a nation so much, I've even nearly bought a massive statue of stalin, a T 55 tank Shell, and multiple 1885 sabres, and I do mean actual historical ones, from a house of a Romani person. I love the antion my heritage comes from, and I've honestly much enjoyed your video.
Sour milk❤
Hello and greetings from Bulgaria. This clip puts a smile on my face, when i saw my own country in one of your clips. I'm a huge fan of the channel. It thought me a lot about world history. One point though - Cyril and Metodius created the Glagolic alphabet for other Slavic tribes, while their pupils were accepted (or taken) by Boris the First and created the Cirylic alphabet. As for Todor Zhivkov. Well... Its a very difficult subject and a grey area. Some people here adore him and think he is the best thing that happened to Bulgaria. Other people hate him to the core, because they believe that him and communism as a whole was the worst period for Bulgaria. This man is controversial mildly said. He came from a poor family, had humble origins and was not well edicated, but with wits and streetwise mentality namaged to climb through the ranks of the Party. Back then, the working class people liked him, because he was one of their own. He was close to Brezhnev, which lead to taking of loans from the Soviets, because our own economy was begining to fail. Something, which stopped when Gorbachev came to power. Zhivkov considered leaving the Warsaw pact at some point, at other considered joining the USSR, which is widely believed to be a state treason. At the end he was forcebly removed from office in front of the whole country. Personally, I don't like him. I consider him a dumb peasant, а sly, double-faced hypocrite, who used his power to his own interest and to some extent for the Party, not in the best interest of the people or the country. Bulgaria had several bancrupcies during his rule. But you could also imply, that through this period, Bulgaria had a somewhat calm and balanced state of existence between the first rough and violence years of communism after World War 2 and the chaotic, mobster years of the 90-s.
Wow, it’s always great to hear from the people who live and experience the country you read about.
the only calm and peace bulgarians experienced during communism was only for those that kept their head down and didn't cause trouble. Essentially, rats and insects. Communism effectively castrated the bulgarian people in 45 years, meanwhile 500 years of ottoman slavery (which is considered way worse) couldn't manage to do that.
Много добре казано. Успя да резюмираш перфектно и до известна степен - безпристрастно, управлението и ролята на Тодор Живков. Поздравления.
@@maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa Your country currently is hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of people under capitalism and you're blaming it on communism?? Hahaha typical
@@stratospheric37 I blame both.
I love Bulgaria, altrough we had many wars with them. I also have friends in Bulgaria, and also my grandfather is half Bulgarian. Can you make the video about the history of my country 🇷🇸?
Hvala
No more wars!
All those wars were polical!
The people never had problems with one another.
No more wars, only peace and prosperity for the people of the Balkans 🇧🇬🇷🇸
Все още няма да забравя случилото се през 1885, ама карай, може да ви е простено! Макар и това събитие никога да не се забравя, ако си чувал изразът: ''Раната задравява бързо, но тежка дума никога не се забравя!''
Но поне се признайте, че вие бяхте първите, които ни забиха ножа в гърбовете и ни предадохте, и окупирахте Вардарска Бановина, както му викахте на областа по време на Югославия, и ни обвинявахте, че ние сме били тия, които са ви намушкали отзаде като всъщност е обратното, макар и да не щете да си го признаете до ден днешен, което е срамота...
Вие сърбите сте руски марионетки като беларусите и разбира се, от вас дойде тая пропаганда, че сме били ''татаро-монголци, окупатори,'' които им втълпихте на македонците! За съжаление, сега разбира се, няма как да им го избием тоя факт от главите им за жалост като щетата е вече нанесена тежко...
Но к'во да се прави, такъв е животът на Балканите и на мръсните комунисти, които и до ден днешен не можем да се изчистим от тях!
🇷🇸🤝🇧🇬
@@HeroManNick132 За съжаление си напълно прав. Такива са реалностите. Все пак в смутни времена е по-добре да се държим заедно със съседите си. Има надежда за българо-сръбските отношения. При тях руската пропаганда започва леко да отстъпва последните месеци. Мисля, че на хората там им идва нов акъл бавно и постепенно. Дано
Love Bulgarian culture, history, tradition and people. Too bad our government doesn't always support Bulgaria, but you must know a lot of Dutch people love Bulgaria (keeping their traditions and faith, don't let there country get ruined by (illegal) refugees, not saying all immigrants or refugees are bad, but it's crazy how many there coming to the Netherlands in comparison to our population).
Love from the Netherlands 🙏
Bulgaria❤Nederland
Soros ,Schwab, Kissinger are destroying both our countries with their "open society"
@@petertodorov1792 Amen. It's getting crazier every year man.
@@024Nimma
Brother,
Why is the Dutch government persecuting the Dutch farmers?
@@petertodorov1792 Because according to the EU rules they produce too much nitrogen, so they need to cut down like half of their livestock which many financially won't survive. But there has been many protests by the farmers (blocking roads etc.) and a lot of people sympathize with the farmers.
It's a fuckedup situation. But the government is now negotiating with them.
@@024NimmaYour government has its good reason to behave as it does. Rule of law is still more of a theoretical concept than an fact of daily life around here, I for one have no issue with their reluctance to have Bulgaria admitted to Schengen..
As an Armenian, I love Bulgaria. They saved many Armenians during the Turkish genocide and currently, the Armenians are one of the best integrated societies, mixed marriages are common as well. Excellent video and greetings to my fellow Bulgarians.
As a Bulgarian , I love Armenians
Armenian Scholars record the earliest history of Bulgaria in the works of Movses Khorenatsi, Ananias Shirakatsi, and others
The Armenian province Vanand is named after a Bulgarian leader who settled in Armenia as an Armenian ally in the 1st century AD
Armenians and Bulgarians have been friends and Allies for centuries
As an American with partial Armenian ancestry I must say the history of Bulgaria is truly fascinating.
Propaganda yapma. Ağlak?
Artificial genocide, created by US/western countries you mean?
Ulan 500 sene Türk olan Osmanlı'nın eyaleti oldunuz.Bulgarlar,Yunanlılar ,Sırplar,
Romanlar,Ermeniler, Osmanlı yönetimin de, dilinizi serbestçe konuşmanızı, sağlayan,dininizizin gereklerini yerine getirmeniz için kiliselerinizi bile inşa eden bir , inanç özgürlüğü veren, kültürünüzü yaşamanıza hoşgörü ile yaklaşan, Osmanlı Türk imparatorluğuna teşekkür edeceğinize,şükran duyacaginiza,utanmadan iftira atıyorsunuz.Eger Osmanlı Türk imparatorluğu ,sizin söylediklerinizi yapmış olsaydı,çok kuvvetli olduğu dönemlerde yapardı,bugün sizlerde dilinizi,dininizi kültürünüzü kaybederdiniz.
Sözün özü, Osmanlı Türk imparatorluğu hiç bir zaman soykırım yapmamıştır Tebaa sına hoşgörü ile yaklaşmıştır.
Yinede sizlere kızmıyorum,sizden isteğim tarihinizi doğru öğrenmeniz.Selamlar
Just learned a fellow coworker was Bulgarian. I told him I'd learn some more about his country. He was surprised about what I already knew; though little.
This video has helped. So many major world powers occupied this land.
Also, they have and now do, have they're own land. It's interesting.
I didn't know how much about the area of Bulgaria that I already knew.
Fascinating.
dont turn back on your fellow coworker bulgarian? aski him about tradition called noz v grbina
basically the oldest European country that still exists with the same name and more or less in the same territory ;) As for the occupations - everyone that occupied Bulgaria or Bulgaria allied with, sooner or later either lost or disappeared, not sure what this means for EU :D
In primordial row it goes like this .
Bulgar Oghurs - Tengrist have made invasion to Official Roman Province Macedonia in which were incorporated: theritory of old Kingdom Makedon , Epir ,Thesalia and parts of Trace ,Iliricum and Peonia .....!
Read it please!
It was
Extended Onogurian Bulgaria from Volga river therritory .
With invasion to the Roman territories by Oghur Turkic tribes but inhabitant were all Tracean and Macedonian .
It is The Great honour that they are not keeping that Onogurian name Bulgar but they are new modern Bulgaria .
Reasonably shortened !
Once it was Bulgarian quasi empire on Three Seas , but it lost territories due to Otoman invasion !
Easy comes , easy goes my dear !
@@ethernall0ne
Bulgaria is in EU only for a need to strengthen European Borders against Russia .
Not because they have reached the European standards of becoming a member !
Not sure what you tried to explain here... but the Turkic theory of origin has been largely debunked by now.
@@voskreglavincevska7080
It really is amaizing that the Ottomans was holding this part of europe for 500 years. I came here after watching Ottomans the rice of empires on Netflix. Got interested in eastern european history. Greetings from Sweden.
Going to visit Bulgaria for the first time in a few weeks - I'm so excited to see the beautiful landscape and experience the rich history and wonderful culture. Much love from a South African living in Portugal ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The Bulgarian history is very interesting, and in some point similar to ours. I realy like Bulgaria (Bulgária), it has beautiful landscape, interesting history and I like the language too. Love Bulgaria (and the Bulgarians) from Hungary! Magyarország 🇭🇺♥️ Bolgárország/Bulgária🇧🇬
The history of previous Bulgarias is also impressive. But not very well known. Many nations trying to counterfeit history by political reasons. They represent bulgarians like tatars, turkic tribes.. In fact they were often part of hunes, avars (military support).. and so on.
Search about bulgarian calendar. Maybe this not very popular facts will make you doubt in popular versions.
Mongol brothers unite
@@vladz1461 Stfu jealous Yugo offspring :)
@@kosmicheskiprah mf im bulgarian 💀
@@vladz1461 In fact but not exactly .
I love this I never thought someone might care for my countries history in such a way I brought tears to my eyes. Thank you I love your chanel and your content. I love how well written and researched everything is. Thank you so much it brings me joy ♥️🇧🇬
I visited Bulgaria in March of 1989. Not much food around, but the buses were free, and downtown Sofia was amazing. No cars allowed in the downtown core! Unfortunately I couldn't stay, but the first night there I attended a concert of singing and dancing, which, partially due to the fact I'd had little sleep for the last 36 hours, rendered me to tears. The next night I again attended another concert.
The lovely lady who ran the pension where I stayed quickly dispossessed me of some cheap jewelry I'd picked up in Togo.
If you haven't listened to the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female choir, you're seriously missing out...
How come there was no food
@@squidguard4743 communism
@@squidguard4743 empty shelves everywhere . and bananas was something big to find.
@@squidguard4743 during communism there werent many restuarant and cafes because private enterprises werent allowed I'm guessing that's what he meant
All buses are free if you don't pay
My favorite place to visit in Bulgaria is Rila Monastery. The frescos are amazing. They are exposed to the climate, yet they maintain so much color. It’s really remarkable.
I moved back to Bulgaria after living 90% of my life somewhere else and I was also in other countries and cities around the world but, there’s no place like Bulgaria. It’s rough but real and people are real. Life is real here. Nature is stunning and the culture is worth experiencing. You can do what ever you want in Bulgaria, specially if you have money or connections. I‘m proud being Bulgarian and having this history which goes much deeper than this video but, I appreciate every detail of what you did and show the people. I really hope my people can finally prosper now after so many years of war and change. We kind of never got out of this feeling here in Bulgaria, my people are hurt and still suffer from generations of loosing families. Still, I wish everyone around the world to live together in peace now! We can finally achieve what our grandparents all died for.
Ето още едно истинско българче :). Много се радвам като видя някой такъв. Точно заради предците ни неще се откажем. Малко или много, колкото - толкова, българи винаги ще има. Благородност - най-висшето качество, което отваря всяка врата, а повечето от нас без да осъзнават се стремят да го премахнат, понеже било слабост :) Слабост е да си слаб, аз съм силен, защото съм свободен, българин!
@@DimoDim1914 амин брат мой, да си жив и здрав🙏🏼
>"you can do whatever you want specially if you have money or connections"
>amazing country
@@rooney1194 I‘m just being honest. How you take it, it’s your problem. If you having problems or difficulties somewhere, maybe it’s you missing opportunity’s
Сега кажи, как мислиш да гласуваш за въZраждане 😅.
I'm Bulgarian and I can't help but congratulate you on the video that you've made, well done! However, the last couple of minutes concerning the communist/socialist period contain some inaccuracies. That was the single most devastating period of Bulgarian history when the state went bankrupt a couple of times and the entire intelligentsia was absolutely annihilated. The modern country still hasn't recovered. In any case - благодаря за видеото!
The intelligentsia wasn't annihilated, it was replaced by a host of politically proven people of art, yes, but annihilated - no, that never really happened. Degraded would be another very relevant word but not destroyed.
As a Bulgarian I can sum up the communist period as such
1. The "Stalin era" was horrible with purges and killings. For example my great grandpa just got called to the police station one day then shot put somewhere. Or his family who were denied work and who the regime tried to kill by starvation. There was economic growth during that period though largely due to the inhumane 15-20 hour work days and slave labor.
2. The Zhivkov period eased up. The population was then controlled not by fear but by bribes. Basically Stalin had stolen all the land and businesses before and when his people got overthrown in an internal coup the new local communists just started building factories for whatever without any economic consideration and then just let the people who "worked" there steal in mass. The whole thing was financed by government debt and the money made from tourism and agriculture. When the money ran out the regime fell and everything went bankrupt so 70 years gone to waste and we had to start over. We are also still paying that debt and the people from THAT period are greedy, selfish and corrupt.
3. All the institutions and foundations built over the course of several hundred years like the military, church, landowning class, business class, intellectual class (painters, writers,etc), merchants etc were killed and our mini cultural golden age ended. The value system went to shit and people stopped believing in anything besides nationalism and greed.
Ivan Trenev said on a show that it was Lukanov who stole all of Bulgaria's money and gave it to the US and and Russia and fabricated Zhivkov's resignation.
@@TheodorTheDragonSlayer it's unclear. Lukanov doesn't seem to have benefitted personally. His family remained middle class (bukgarian standards of that)
@@TheodorTheDragonSlayer yup. Sоrоs helped a lot and did financial manipulations that managed to kick Zhan Videnov out of the game and bankrupt the country, but it was already a lost game after Gоrbachov solt out the USSR to from an oligarchic capitalist Russia and Masonary was re-introduced after it was forbid between 1950-1990
The 90s were very similar to the early 50s that the above comment described only difference was that the factories that were build from our grandparents to fuel our economy, were intentionally bankrupted and sold to scrap to benefit other economies.
Then the 00s were the exact same as the late 50s with only difference that power was given through bribes to current "political powers" who are mainly lap dogs and drug lords that serve the interest of other countries. Just this time business was not stolen in the interest of the nation, but was stolen from middle class bussinessman so it can be given in the hands of EU puppets and on a side note hundreds of thousands of young people were given a sentence for marijuana possesion so a major part of young independant thinkers could be restricted from entering politics.
Times change, lessons are learned unfortunately on the backs of millions of innocent middle class (and newly formed after fall of Socialism - poor class) people.
If I had the chance to add something to the mistakes of Zhivkov was the Bulgarization of Turks. A really barbaric act although most of today's Bulgarian Turks have forgiven him. Otherwise he was a very inspirational figure for almost 80%+ of the population born between 1920-1970 and perceived as a simple man with a great impact that took us into top 30 econimies of the world.
Unfortunately today we're out of the top 60, but his and the example of our parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents of all ethnicities and religions shows that if a nation works as one unit it can accomplish great things and serve as an example for the world.
Every rege at one point comes to an end. Hope in the next one we will have a higher common goal as a nation. Today most of us live very good life, but one thing troubles me... We're too individual and self-centered which is the reason we have so many rich, but also so many poor and homeless. One nation is as rich as it's poorest thus we are poor... Not as poor as the US and Russia, but still poor.
It's literally USA + soros control our country but blind fools keep calling russian people are terrorists
@@ia3078 I have to agree with some points and disagree with others. The factories were never built with economic growth in mind to begin with and by the mid 90s were already drowning in debt. They were always going to go bankrupt. Very few managed to reform enough. The only actual industries that were turning a profit were tourism, farming and some mining.
The 90s and 00s were very different from the 50s though. In the 50s we are literally talking about the murder of at least 100 000 people. Basically the entire leadership of the country on a national and local level was removed. The military officers, the royal family, the political elite, the intellectuals (writers, journalists, academics, actors ,directors, composers, musicians ) , the local police chiefs, mayors, clergy and administrators etc.
In a dictatorship with limited information the best informed and connected people are the intelligence agents (ДС) and those are the people that took power and made the most of it. They rule to this day but because the regime ended I don`t think there is anybody new coming down the pipeline. Boiko (Gerb), BSP and DPS are all former government agents and all of them are old.
I can`t say I`m the biggest fan of the EU but as long as it`s exists we are better off. We are not strong enough as a country to face the world alone right now. We need a benefactor and apart from the EU our options are Russia (a country in demographic, economic and overall meltdown) and Turkey. A country that is currently fighting in their neighbors (Syria, Iraq) has occupied a third (Cyprus) and is threatening war with a forth (Greece). Not exactly ideal.
Thanks for creating this. I really enjoy seeing videos like this, that show the world some more about our country. Also you did a really good job at representing everything that has happened around here, so once again good job for that!
Great overwiew. It brushed up on my knowledge, added a lot of events and gave me interest in comparing the conversion of Boris I with Harald Bluetooth. For dinner I would have chopped salad with 60% Bulgarian feta and 20 year old plum Rakia, followed by the local meet and red wine.
After so much fighting I'm glad that us (Bulgarians) and our neighbours finally have a good relationship and the only thing we hit is our glasses. Nazdrave, and may next year be a better one for your country and family!
Well, we actually have good relations with half of our neighbours - Romania and Greece. There is too much communist anti-bulgarian propaganda and hate speech in Serbia and North Macedonia ("thank you" Russia).
Because of its geographic location, Bulgaria and the Balkans in general have seen the worst of incessant warfare over the past 3 millennium. The region is kind of a bottleneck or wide isthmus between major powers encroaching from all directions.
Quite ironically it was this geographic location that contributed greatly for the cultural and political advancements of medieval Bulgaria, but also led to its constant warfare and demise.
@@Sevastokrator. око за око, зъб за зъб
Bulgaria is a country with a very rich history and proud people. I have been in the country for enjoyable and wonderful 6 years for my study in one of the historic city Plovdiv in 1980s. If you ask me where would I like to go again or recommend to some one to go and visit, l would advise first go to Plovdiv and visit the Old City (Staria Grad) then go to Pamporovo, Varna, Burgas, all the Black Sea Resorts and conclude your visit by visiting Vitosha and the historic Orthodox Church in Sofia.
fakedonian
Neither gypsy nor Tatar is an insult
They are real people at least
Unlike you fakedonians
@@vilijamkil5937ebi si maikata
Great video. Interesting and informative. We love Bulgaria and have been two times with plans to return for another 3 months this year. Personally I love the Tarator Soup but also the delicious meats and cheeses. Also, you can't go wrong with Bulgarian wine! We loved Veliko Tarnovo the most, and we have also really fallen for Varna.
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Awesome video! I'm amazed at how far back you went in history. My favorite BG food is called Tarator (cucumber yogurt soup with dill and garlic).
You're probably Romanian
I really love the effort you put in the maps geographies. Really puts borders into perspective
Amazing video explaining the history of my country. I can easily tell that you put a lot of effort into this video, and for that as a Bulgarian means the world. Love from Canada Montreal
Fun fact: the name Varna actually comes from the Persian word "vár-nāw", meaning "by the sea" or "coast". With that said note that this word is almost totally out of use in standard modern day Persian, but is still in use in some regional Iranian languages related to/derived from Persian.
There are proofs that Bulgarians and Iranians have bee sharing more than 200 words like ""varna"". There are some theories about Bulgarian roots from Mesopotamia. And collecting the evidence and so on i could say: why not?
Bulgarians originally came from Pamir and were east iranic people.
@@Bayganureally??
@@Bayganu “Cyril the general retired into the city named Odyssus, and stayed there while Vitalian withdrew into the province of Bulgaria.” - (Chr., LXXXIX, 75)
Try new theory.The old one,is fake.
I'm from Bulgaria, the video is largely accurate and fair, with very minor corrections such as the Cyrillic being made by the students of the brother Saints. As always, great production and a ton of effort. Thank you very much, can't wait for another video centered around the Bronze age and its collapse!
Не съм очаквал че ще видя ваш коментар под това видео господин Шкварек поздрави от мен много ви се кефя
As a Bulgarian who lived under Todor Zhivkov as a kid, I can say that it wasn't that bad in the early 80's, but then by the 88-89 it got bad, because the economic support of USSR was cancelled in Gorbachov's Perestroika. Zhivkov was kind a "liberal" for a communist dictator compared to others.
At the moment we are still a satellite state, but to the other block. The difference being that in 30 years 1/3 of the population is gone... *Such are promises. All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. Lie, la, lie... *.
Is that so??
@@bramblecino yes. There are lot of lies about this time.
Still thousands and thousands of people were victims of his rule. I wouldn’t say he is liberal just mass media and public voices don’t talk about it
@@cashy013 I said "compared to others".
Great Video!
As a fellow Bulgarian I think everything is on point.
Here are some things to look our for if you come to visit!
Must eat:
- Banitsa
- Muska (with potatoes) (best served with yogurt)
- Stuffed Peppers
- Best Yogurt (Lactericus Bulgaricus)
- Shopska Salad
- Home Made Liutenitsa
- Tarator
- Bob Chorba
- Shkembe Chorba
- Kachamak
- Mish Mash
- Sarmi (best served with yogurt)
- Slavic Giuvetch
- Kapama
- Kavarma
- Wine Kebap
- Kiofte and Kebabche
Must drink:
- Rakia (all kinds/ the best is homemade)
- Airian
- Boza
- Old School Lemonade
- Oblak (Mix 50/50 Mint and Mastika) (Better to have some Airian to cool everything down)
- Cabbage Juice (best to cure hangover)
Must Visit:
- The Belogradchik Stones
- Koprivshtitsa
- Veliko Tarnovo
- Arbanasi
- Rila/ Borovets / Maliovitsa/ Samokov
- The seven Rila Lakes
- Rila Monestry
- The heavenly sprinkler up in Old Mountain
- Pirin National Park
- Malnik
- Trigrad and the Devil's Troat Cave
- Plovdiv
- Nesebar
- Sozopol
- Krapets Besch
- Cape Kaliakra
- Kazanlak
- Devetashka Cave
- Eagles Eye View Point
- The Devil's Bridge
Must see traditions:
- Lazarus Day
On this day, the girls sing and dance, and the locals gives white eggs and flour to them. The gifts are collected in a house designated for the purpose in advance, where until late at night the girls knead the ritual breads.
- Nestinari
This is an ancient custom where people dance barefoot on embers (coals). According to tradition, the Nestinars play in the evening on the day of Constantine and Elena.
-Surva
Bachelor masquerade ceremony, performed on January 13 and 14 in Pernik. The main character is the large group of men with masks and bells, moving with a specific rhythmic step. With the ritual procession, the masked men chase away "unclean forces" that come from the world of the dead and can harm a person.
- Sirni Zagovezki (Forgivness/ Pokladi)
An important winter-spring holiday in the folk calendar. It is celebrated seven weeks before Easter. Tradition dictates that on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays swings are tied and the young men and women swing on them for health. Huge bonfires are lit on Sundays, and after they burn out, they are jumped over again for health. Then people dance around them and sing songs.
- St. Jordan's Day
On the 6th of January, tradition dictates that after the ritual baptism of frozen water, the priest throws a cross into the river, where the assembled men dive in to retrieve it. The one who took out the cross will be healthy and happy throughout the year.
Браво че не те е домързяло да го напишеш ! По-точно не можеше да е !
@@dimitarpetrov2741 ами вфъхнових се от видеото и реших да д8бавя мялко инфо за чуждестранните ни приятели
Great explanation 👌, I can only add in must to visit - the Krushuna Falls and the Rhodopes ,land of Orpheus.
As a consequence, groups of the Cumans and the Tatars settled and mingled with the local population in various regions of the Balkans. The Cumans were the founders of three successive Bulgarian dynasties (Asenids, Terterids and Shishmanids) and the Wallachian dynasty (Basarabids). They also played an active role in Byzantium, Hungary and Serbia, with Cuman immigrants being integrated into each country's elite.
Vásáry, I. (2005). Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
As a Bulgarian, thank you for making this amazing video video on our country's long history! 🇧🇬❤ As for the questions at the end of the video: I'd recommend the Shopska salad, the traditional Bulgarian cuisine and our wines. Among the places one should visit are our major cities and the Black sea coast, the winter resorts, the Danube river and many others. As for Zhivkov - he's a complicated figure, as the Communist period was peaceful for most people, though a lot of people were oppressed for political reasons and our external policy was under the control of the Soviets.
The greatest Christmas present bro, q video dedicated to one of my favorite nations of all love you Bulgarians
Love Bulgarians who are very nice people in my Book.
@Epimetheus I was blessed enough to have adopted my only child from Bulgaria. I did so much research into this country before we got him. Such a long, rich history!
He’s also Roma (gypsy) and would love to hear your thoughts on that culture too!
Well done dude, you got everything right and easy to comprehend and understand our culture. Nicely made video!!
Your artwork is incredibly aesthetically spleasing to me. Great video, keep it up.
Again, a flawless learning session of a less known people/nation.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
Your videos are very unique. The combination of your level of detail to very esoteric information, and whispery type voice narration is hypnotic. Beautiful. The illustrations are awesome and I really think they'd be great for a totalwar like video game.
Great tribute to one of the oldest recognized countries in Europe. With a huge influence on spreading Orthodox Christianity, Culture and Cyrillic alphabet. Very rich history. Thank you.
All the best to Bulgaria from Georgia!
Thanks! I travelled in Georgia in 2013. My favorite country
🇧🇬🇧🇬❤️ I hope everybody is happy and blessed this year!
All the love from Bulgaria, buddy! :)
All the best to you and your family brother
Soon or later the boys from abroad will come back to Bulgaria and claim its lands again. Macedonia would be first to join.
Duuuude this episode was AMAZING! Epic history that covered so much so well, noice you should do a video on siberia if possible
Greetings from Bulgaria!
You're good storyteller, thanks for making that video!
Also, some of the comments brought tears to my eyes. Thank you all!
I have been to Bulgaria and had an amazing experience while studying and exploring their rich culture. Beautiful place. Love and regards from India!
Also, loved the Bulgarian cuisine.
Hello from Serbia ! Bulgaria has some nice beaches and hotels there i visited few times it was nice time
Жалко е, че вие си ги загубихте своите, след като Черна гора си обяви независимостта си!
I was in ravda sunny beach nesseber burgas plovdiv sofia dobrich shumen bulgaria very small with car
Hey! Love your channel and content. I just wanted to point out a personal thing and say that i think if you made the minor and major rivers in the maps different and major ones more defined i think it would be better for the context
Thank you! The best and most objective video I have seen on TH-cam about our Bulgaria.
Not so well known fact: Cyril and Methodius didn't invent cyrillic. They invented glagolitic. Their students were the ones whose script is being used today (or a modernized version of it), and they called it after their teacher.
History is my favorite subject to learn on my own time and you are the best historian TH-cam channel I ever seen and watch
Bulgarian here! Thanks for covering our history :) We do have some interesting political history after Zhivkov, especially the past 2 years so that would be a great part 2 :D
I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW IMPRESSED I AM WITH YOUR RESEARCH AND VIDEOS! ALL THE BEST IN THIS NEW YEAR!!!💯👍🤩
Hohoo - glad you asked about drinks and food! (Btw great video summarizing our great History. I only wish some of our old fiefdoms were LEFT and not just a small speck on the map)
For alcohol - Bulgarian "Rakia" is definitely one not to miss. There are many kinds & variations. It is usually made out of Grapes. A strong drink that has its own Festival in Sofia every year, where different vendors come together and present their beverages, to win an award & get recognition nation wide. As far as i can remember myself, i always see people drink Rakia :)
(Be careful though! As easily as it goes in, it can be a real bad hangover champion the next day. Drink in moderation)
Wine - Red wine, flavor: Mavrud, Red Misket, Melnik, Rubin, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot & others. Most of the wine made in the Thrakian lowlands is truly very tasty & well made, with traditions going waaaay back. When monks were making them in the cellars & etc.
Food is something that we can all debate for long periods of time. We offer a great many tasty foods. Most not healthy. (But really tasty)
Foods made here in Bulgaria uses a lot of animal products such as: Eggs, Cheese, Milk, Yogurt, various Meats & etc.
One particularly interesting one is: "Shkembe chorba" - it is a soup made out of beef belly, spices & milk. Boiled and made in a specific way, traditional to Bulgaria. It is usually eaten with Spicy Peppers or Spicy Pepper dust. Goes well with bread. Garlic bread & black pepper and salt to taste. If done well & properly, a true delicacy.
Another one i can name is "Tarator" - again, a soup made out of Yogurt, water, pickles, herbs and spices. Very refreshing for the hot summer days.
"Musaka" - is made out of ground meat, potatoes all finely chopped, with spices and vegetables. Most people top it off with a egg mixture at the very end, for extra texture & taste. Quite a tasty traditional dish.
Salad: "Shopska salata" - a salad with different ingredients that at first glance do not go well together, but when mixed up well and properly spiced, really tasty.
Desert: "Baklava" - a desert made with Syrup (Sugar) & crushed Walnuts. It has fillings of bread and is very sweet, but also really tasty.
Breakfast: "Banitsa or Banitsza" - is made with flour, eggs, cow cheese, butter & baked in an oven - really tasty, even by itself. It goes well with "Bozza" or "Airian" - both are local non alcoholic drinks.
"Katuk" - is crushed cheese, with yogurt & salt added to flavor of the person consuming it. Recently i use a squeeze of Lemon to it, as well as: "Sharena Sol" or "Patterned Salt" that has various herbs inside it. Its a really tasty little dish that you can make only with Good & high quality Yogurt.
I might be wrong about some of the foods mentioned above, being "Traditional" - we have influences of other cultures in ours, so much so that sometimes things become blurred. At the very least the above foods & drinks are something you see quite often here in Bulgaria.
You can usually find great food in local restaurants & taverns, hotels that serve various types of traditional food. But one thing is common everywhere. Tasty food! We are proud of our beautiful Mountains, rivers, pastures & women. A truly beautiful country. However we are plagued by bad politicians, greed & corruption. If all of that were "Fixed", it`d be an amazing country to live in.
Hope you found the above useful, cheers!
Be well and stay healthy.
Do you Katuk Yoghurt shkembe there are turkish vvord
KATUK Azerbaijanish Qatıq translate mix make milk
YOGHURT Azerbaijanish Yoğur
Translate make it
Shkembe Turkish Qarın
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"Shkembe chorba"- lamb or beef belly is used for this soup - not pork, never pork!
And in fact, the most common mistake that even we make is that we call our sour milk - yogurt.The two are different products! But in the end Yogurt sounds better... Katak, Tarator, Shopska salad are traditional Bulgarian dishes, also Pepper burek, banitsa. Bulgarian white cheese has no equal! The kitchen of our neighbors is also very good - Baklava, Düner, Pleskavitsa, Ustiptsi, and many others...
@@rumenivanov6723 Yes you correct! I just noticed it as well Thanks for the fix! :)
All my love to my Northern neighbors in Bulgaria. 🇬🇷♥️🇧🇬
Traitor
All my love to my West, North Western neighbours mushtashed,fat, hairy, dark skin Woman folks.
The Thracian Falx is one of my favorite melee weapons of all time- I still think if it had kept being used throughout the ages it may have made for a superior weapon than many other designs.
The curve at the end and spike adds so much more utility/damage than just a normal gladius, spatha, longsword, & various two handers if you ask me.
its called rhomphaia
@@bubalazo Its also called a Falx. Look it up.
@@bubalazo Rhomphaia was similar, but less curved. Sica was the one handed version of the Dacian falx.
❤🎉 Bulgaria 🎉❤ Won lost won and lost... Countries can learn from Bulgaria. Beautiful Culture 🎉❤
As a Bulgarian lady I Thank You for your effort to make this history revew.If you want to know more on the hidden histori of ours I recommend Ivan Trenev who dive deep and know the most of the facts screwed in purpose about our true history
My life is complete when Epimetheus uploads a new video 🔥
What i love the most about Bulgaria is its ability to unite very different people from each other slavs, romans and turk tribes under one nationality very successfully.
Maybe 15-20 centuries ago people were not or did not feel so different. If you look, they have all made alliances like this: British, French and more: Spanish and Italian.
@@krasimirparvanov8139 true
Big Respect from Albania l like it Bulgaria ❤❤
The period from 1396 to 1878, ironically is one of the best parts, containing a lot of brave people, complex plans, secret revolutionary organisations all over the place, some amazing literature, which is studied in school today and tragic stories of people giving their life for the freedom of Bulgaria. I don't know if you looked into that while making this amazing video, but it's very interesting. It's understandable why it's not as important for teaching people about Bulgaria, since the Russians helped us at the end anyway (the heavily planned "april uprising", went wrong and was brutally stopped, the news reached the other Europeoan countries, alerting them of the situation here. At the end Russia decided to help us because of that, while taking care of their relations with Turkey)
And Bulgaria fight against Russia in all wars after - WWI and WWII. That's why russians always calls you "brothers" not brothers
@@annalehman93941 Russia is a younger nation than Bulgaria. Even Kiev was created and ruled by many Bulgarians. Gave them religion, gave them alphabet. They are like sons or daughters to us not brothers.
@@annalehman93941 thank God since they enslaved us right after helping us.
Everything they teach us is a big, fat lie ! Search and read real Bulgarian history ! Russians only came to steal our history so they can change it later. If they were here to help why did they took 40 wagons filled with books ?! Why they don't want to give it all back now ? Because if they do the real history will comes out ! Plus they never "decided" anything. We hired them and we paid in gold ! And that 500 years - they never happened ! Use your critical thinking and stop believing the narratives , its all a fake. The history they teach us in school is fake and its so obvious, even back then, in school there were so many things that didnt match... Our history is not even written by us. The video is great, only one thing to clarify - slavonic people are not connected in any genetic or environmental way, its a language group, and nothing more ! Russians are so ungrateful, if it wasnt for us they would still be quacking from the bushes ! And now again they are targeting areas in Ukraine with mostly bulgarian genetics forbidding bulgarian schools and language. The truth will come up sooner or later, it always does.
@@annalehman93941 And by the way we weren't in any wars not with Russia, nor against Russia. In general no one in Bulgaria cares for Russia, U.S.A. or any other government nor the oligarch wars in which the middle class is dragged into. Russia and U.S.A. governments are the two sides of the same coin and they work together for always. ;D
Good job on the video. Props from a Bulgarian History student. Keep up the good work.
Helo! I am Bulgarian living in Sweden since meny years. I was in my 20 when I imigrated from the country. The Bulgarian communist regime was totaly obidient to the Soviet Union. Zivkov was pupet on the strings to the soviet leaders. He and his family was like a tribe that exploited the people. Sadly has Bulgaria after the communists falldown had only incompetent and corupted polititians. However the country has beautifull scinery from the mountains their the plains to the see.The food is marvelous the wines and the rakia are very good. The culture is rich and bulgarians are very hospital people. Thank You for the interesting historical lesson.
Regards from an old bulgarian lady WHO loves Bulgaria
As an English man I've yet to meet a Bulgarian, I wonder why?
Zhovkov was blessing compare to these after
My Concert pianist friend and nice neighbor both from Bulgaria... Both lovely men... humble, hard workers !
I genuinely laughed out loud at Alexander dying from too much winning! 😂🤣
As a bulgarian I can say "Well DONE,Bravo" very acurate video.Finally someone telling the truth about our country
What a great video, I can see a lot of research went into it. We (Bulgarians) usually looooove eating banitsa and yoghurt (original, unsweetened!). We eat so much yoghurt, we even add it to our dishes, like a topping 😋
To all my Balkan brothers;
I believe that by this day and age, with so many accessible sources of information, I think that it is an absolute NO-BRAINER that, we, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, Serbian, Turkish, Croatian and so on (the entire Balkan region) are a single cultural entity with various regional differences. Love to the entirety of the Balkans and I call you all for Balkan unity!
I've been interested in Bulgaria for a few years now, so thank you. I can't wait to visit someday! By the way, there is a beautiful song by Deep Forest called Bulgarian Melody that I have enjoyed for many years. It's a lovely song I recommend.
Deeply racist country man. They treat gypsies like absolute garbage sadly
You paint with a very broad brush, fella.
Oh, yeah, beautiful song, indeed! Deep Forest was my favourite band, when I was a kid.
@@variete700 wow, same here!
Im a Bulgarien sitzen and I thank you for doing this video it warms my hard knowing people care about the slaving past😁😁
the visuals were absolutely stunning, you are the gold standard for History education on TH-cam.
I must say I'm pretty impressed by the overall historic accuracy of the video.
With a few exceptions like the Cyrillic and some other minor stuff, but other than that it's almost perfect summary. :)
Cyril and Metodius actually devised the Glagolic alphabet, not the Cyrillic.
That's a very little known fact, that even many Bulgarians might actually be unaware of.
The Cyrillic was actually made after the death of both Cyril and Metodius, presumably by some of their desciples in the newly formedPreslav, while the Ohrid one rather kept trying to continue work on the Glagolic before fully transitioning to the Cyrillic as well.
The general concept until now is that it was influenced by and based to a major extend on the Greek alphabet, but in recent years I've noticed that there is a great similarity with the Bulgar alphabet or so-called Proto-Bulgarian/Bulgar runic alphabet with many symbols being pretty much identical in both writing and pronunciation. Like the letters Б, Ф and likely the У and Щ to great extend with many others being at least visual identical or very similar too. There might actually have more from the yet u deciphered ones.
Fun fact is that the Ъ and Ь, which today are called 'R major/bug and R minor/small' or simply 'uh' (as the 'u' in 'pun') and small R, are also present in the Bulgar alphabet and likely where came from, where they represented the modern equivalents of Р and Ъ respectively, as it can be seen in the table in the wikipedia article I've linked below.
bg.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8
Seigo Yamazawa (山沢静吾). :D
Great video overall, but the alliterations in the description of the IV Crucade, starting around 15:08, really made me laugh. 😄
BTW, merry Christmas!
Had to see if anone else had mentioned this, blody brilliant.
Slight correction, Wallachia was a Bulgarian vassal for most of the time up to the later half of 13th century(swapped around with Hungary at some points and proportions). Love to our Romanian Brothers.