The history of Bulgaria is extensive. Here we have tried to present its most important moments.
Rulers and people
Voivode Pitu Guli
Voivode Hadzhi Dimitar
Historic sites
Magura Cave
Magurata, officially called Rabisha Cave from 1942 until 24 October 1972, is a well-known cave in northwestern Bulgaria, in Vidin Province, Belogradchik Municipality. It is also informally called Magura. The cave is renowned for its paintings, dating as far back as the Palaeolithic, and for its numerous bats.
Northwestern Bulgaria, Vidin Province, No information
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Mound of the Griffins
The Mound of the Griffins is a Thracian funerary structure in the Valley of the Thracian Rulers, discovered in 1996 by a research team led by Associate Professor Georgi Kitov. It lies between Shipka and the village of Sheynovo. The mound was built on the southern edge of an existing mound and includes a domed chamber, a rectangular antechamber with a pitched roof and a monumental façade.
Stara Zagora Province, near Shipka, 5th–4th centuries BC
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Transfiguration Monastery
The Transfiguration Monastery is a historic site in northern Bulgaria, seven kilometres north of Veliko Tarnovo, in the Dervent Gorge of the Yantra River. Founded during the Second Bulgarian Empire in the thirteenth–fourteenth century, it is Bulgaria's fourth-largest monastery and the largest around Veliko Tarnovo. It is also known as Sara's or Shishman's Monastery, associated with Sara, the second wife of the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander, and their son Tsar Ivan Shishman.
Veliko Tarnovo Province, Thirteenth–fourteenth century
Read moreWarfare
Pecheneg invasion of northern Bulgaria
A large-scale Pecheneg invasion across the frozen Danube devastated northern Bulgaria and Thrace, reaching as far as Macedonia. Historical accounts describe the invaders destroying everything in their path and mercilessly killing prisoners.
The Battle for Vidin
On the eve of the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a formation called the Northern Detachment was established to defend north-western Bulgaria. The Serbian command assigned the Timok Army to invade the north-western Bulgarian lands.
Bulgarian–Hungarian War of 1195
After unsuccessful peace negotiations between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire in 1195, King Béla III of Hungary, who controlled parts of the western Bulgarian lands, decided to attack Bulgaria to capture western Moesia.
