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Sofia, New Mexico , was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States , and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia ?
a song about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo was sent into space in 1977 as part of the Voyager Golden Record ?
south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski , a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors ?
the 1994 French –Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars ?
Parteniy Pavlovich from Silistra , an 18th-century Bulgarian cleric and writer, is regarded as the author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature?
ispolini , ancient giants of Bulgarian mythology, perceived blackberry bushes as a great danger and offered sacrifices to them?
Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski , best man to national poet Hristo Botev , was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria ?
Bulgarian –Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff , an honorary citizen of Turin , studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar ?
Czech –Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter , chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?
Pirot -born Krastyo Krastev , the first professional Bulgarian literary critic , was a shorthand writer for the National Assembly of Bulgaria while still a schoolboy?
Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire ?
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Question 1 : The ethnic Macedonians were considered ________ by the most ethnographers until the early 20th century and beyond with a big portion of them evidently self-identifying as such.
Question 2 : Bulgars descent originally from ________ who during the 2nd century migrated into the North Caucasian steppe .
Question 3 : ________ , national hero of Bulgaria
Question 4 : What is the population of Bulgarians?
Question 5 : Which of the following are related to Bulgarians?
Question 6 : The ________ is a state symbol of the sovereignty and independence of the Bulgarian people and state.
Question 8 : Some members of the diaspora do not speak the Bulgarian language (mostly representatives of the old emigration in the U.S. , Canada and ________ ) but are still considered Bulgarians by ethnic origin or descent.
Question 9 : Bulgarian women from the period of the ________ rule (16th century)
Question 10 : Icon of Saint ________ (ca.
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