Bulgaria-Group+A

=**Location:**=
 * **5 Themes Analysis**
 * -**Describe your country and how it fits into each theme of Geography. Be sure to include leaders, currency

Bulgaria is bordered by a number of countries namely Romania, Greece, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro which form Bulgaria's western, southern and northern neighbors.
=**Place:**= Bulgaria is country in the moderate temperature zone. In the Summer the average temp is between 25-30 deg, but it can reach occasionally upto 35 deg C, Winter during Jan is colder. Temp. average is from 0 to 8 deg C. But there are records the temp. may fall upto 20 deg C. 

Read more: []  Food- popular foods include: [|Pilaf] (Rice with chopped meat, vegetables or mussels.), cabbage, beans, peppers, and potastoes  **Human-Environment Interaction:** ===== __Bulgarian folk dances are intimately related to the music of Bulgaria. This distinctive feature of Balkan [|folk music] is the asymmetrical [|meter], built up around various combinations of 'quick' and 'slow' [|beats]. The music, in Western [|musical notation], is often described using [|compound meter] notation, where the notational meter accents, i.e., the heard beats, can be of different lengths, usually 1, 2, 3, or 4.__ ===== media type="youtube" key="o5A5w6GkiqM" width="425" height="350"media type="youtube" key="9RBmnMsO_B8" width="425" height="350" align="center"
 * Movement:**

The melody of the Bulgarian anthem was composed by a Bulgarian student in 1885, as he went off to fight in the Serbo-Bulgarian war. Before the fall of the communist government in 1989, a third verse was added to "Mila Rodino", referencing Moscow's allegiance to Bulgaria, but this was removed after the communists were removed from government. =**Region:**= Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces. Each province is named after its capital. In the case of Sofia Province and Sofia Capital, Sofia is the capital of both, but its territory is only included in Sofia Capital.

Languages:

 * Bulgarian (official) 84.5%,
 * Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%,
 * other and unspecified 1.8%

Religions:

 * Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%,
 * Muslim 12.2%,
 * other Christian 1.2%,
 * other 4%

Ethnic groups:

 * Bulgarian 83.9%,
 * Turk 9.4%, Roma 4.7%,
 * other 2% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian
 * //Bulgarian Orthodox Church//**



//**Bulgaria, Sofia, Alexander Nevski Cathedral Church**// //**Bulgaria, Sofia, The Russian Church - Saint Nicholas Church**// //**Bulgaria, Bourgas City, Armenian Church**//

//**﻿**// //**Bulgaria, Karnobat Town Church, St Ioan's, Front and Side**//

__Georgi Parvanov__
It is part of the Pirin Mountain. Located in the high parts of the Northern Mount. It has the Bayuvi Doupki-Dzhindzhiritsa Biosphere Reserve and the Yulen Reserve.
 * 4th President of Bulgaria
 * born - 28 June 1957 (age 54) Sirishtnik, Bulgaria
 * political party - independent
 * profession - Historian
 * religion - Bulgarian Orthodoxy ||~  ||~   ||~   ||
 * **Trip Itinerary**
 * -**Where do you want to go within your country? Pick 4-5 “hot-spots” you will visit in one week and describe the following about each: What is it? Why is it important? What is the history of this place? Why do you want to go? How will you get there? Anything else you would like to share about it? ||
 * Pirin National Park.**



A Thracian tomb, which is dated to the late 4th-early 3rdcentury B.C. The murals in the burial chamber and in the corridor have artistic value. The tomb is located in the Tyulbeto Hillnear the town of Kazanluk.
 * Kazanluk Tomb.**



It is a monastery compound of the Holy Archangel Michael, with partially preserved churches. The murals in the Church of the Holy Virgin have been described as some of the most significant achievements of 14th century Bulgarian medieval art. The churches are located about 20 km away from the city of Rouse, east of the village of Ivanovo, in the rocks of the RousenskiLom Nature Park.
 * Ivanovo Rock Churches.**



A rock relief, cut into the Madara rocks on the northern slope of the Provadiisko Plateau at a height of 23 m. This is the most significant monumental piece of art from the early Middle Ages, unique of its kind in European cultural history. It is close to the village of Madara, about 16 km away from the city of Shoumen.
 * Madara Horseman.**