Essays on Bulgarian

1. Introduction Bulgaria is located between the Turkey and Romania in the Southeastern Europe and has a variety of different sports practiced by its citizens. The country of more than seven million citizens has been part of the summer and winter Olympics game from their early start. In the country the most popular sports are football - soccer, volleyball, various different gymnastics, wrestling, weight lifting and others. There are various different sport figures popular in the country, but they do not fully address the international sporting achievements of Bulgaria on the international level. The paper will present the country’ ...

Chapter 2 from the book "Ibn Fadlan 921-922 CE" extremely important source on the history of Eastern Europe about X century. The author visited the Volga Bulgaria as part of the Embassy of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir. The trip was undertaken at the initiative of the governor of the Volga Bulgaria, who, wishing to get rid of from the power of the Khazars, the caliph asked patronage and promised to convert to Islam. Author came from Baghdad in 921 and came to the Volga Bulgaria in May 922 (Gordon 23). Ibn Fadlan left a detailed account of the journey, ...

The recipe for Greek mussaka and good advices I received from my neighbor who originates from Greece. Mussaka is a main course dish that is prepared in all countries of the Balkan Peninsula and is considered as a national meal in every one of them. The difference is in the meat and some people, according to taste add two egg yolks in the bechamel sauce and change the bottom or both layers with potatoes. The word béchamel has a French origin and it came much later with many other words as names to the similar things, prepared in ...