Housed in the former palacial Soviet HQ near Mt. Vitosha and in a splendid setting southwest of Sofia, this museum had Bulgaria's most complete display of artefacts. It traced their amazing history from the earliest Tracians (including gold jewelry found in tombs, roughly 5000 to 400 B.C.), to the Greeks (elaborate jars and cups made from the abundant Bulgarian gold, 600 to 0 BC), to the Romans (sculptures, mosaics and more gold objects, 1 to 600 A.D.), to the Bulgars with their Khans or Tsars like Boris I from central Asia.
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The Bulgars created the 1st Bulgarian Empire -- extending from Turkey to Greece (swords, jewelry, carvings, etc., 600-1000 AD), to Byzantine rule from Constantinople (1000-1200 AD), to the 2nd Bulgarian Empire under Boris II (1200-1400), to the Ottoman Empire (that brutally replaced Christian with Islamic culture, 1400-1878), to the Bulgarian Principality (1878-1908), to the Bulgarian Kingdom under Ferdinand I and Boris III (1908-1945), to Soviet domination (1944-1989), to the present-day democratic republic of Bulgaria. What a history! [See a map of Bulgaria on the post for Saturday, 25 October, 2008.]
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The Bulgars created the 1st Bulgarian Empire -- extending from Turkey to Greece (swords, jewelry, carvings, etc., 600-1000 AD), to Byzantine rule from Constantinople (1000-1200 AD), to the 2nd Bulgarian Empire under Boris II (1200-1400), to the Ottoman Empire (that brutally replaced Christian with Islamic culture, 1400-1878), to the Bulgarian Principality (1878-1908), to the Bulgarian Kingdom under Ferdinand I and Boris III (1908-1945), to Soviet domination (1944-1989), to the present-day democratic republic of Bulgaria. What a history! [See a map of Bulgaria on the post for Saturday, 25 October, 2008.]
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