Large reserves of petroleum and natural gas were
discovered
in
the 1960s, which
led to
a continuing boom in the economy.In September 1918, Tsar Ferdinand abdicated in favour of
his son Boris
III in order to head
off anti-monarchic revolutionary tendencies.
The Oslo
Opera House
received two architectural
awards in 2008 and
2009.
The
greatest slaughter
took place in the countryside, however.
This kingdom later became
the trade and cultural center of the north, because it stood on a very strategic
position creating
a
monopoly over
the trade
among the Arabs, the Norse and the Avars.
Numerous opportunists joined his movement initially, while
Germany seemed to be winning the war.
Pytheas description
of
Thule as a
land six days sailing north of Britain, where
there is no nightfall in summer, might be the
first written reference to what
we
today know as Norway.
A side effect
of the large German garrison was the
birth
of
up
to
12,000 children born to
Norwegian women and German soldiers.Vasil Levski (1837-1873), one
of the key figures of the
Bulgarian liberational
movement of the 19th century and the national hero of Bulgaria.
The Turkish minority was persecuted
and
border disputes with
Greece and Yugoslavia revived.
This state
was to be under nominal Ottoman sovereignty but was to be ruled by a prince elected by a
congress of Bulgarian notables and
approved by the
Powers.In February
1977, the EPRP
initiated terrorist attacks
- known
as
the White Terror - against Derg
members and their supporters.
Partially or entirely in Asia,
depending on
the
border definitions.
One
of
the successors of Khan Kubrat, Kotrag led nine Bulgarian tribes
to the north along the banks of the river Volga
in what is today
Russia, creating the Kingdom of
the
Volga Bulgars in the late VII century.
It also
exercised control over Wallachia and
Moldova.Two
plebiscites to join the European
Union
failed
by narrow margins in 1972 and 1994.
In 986, the
Byzantine emperor Basil II undertook to reconquer the lands lost to the Bulgarians.
In 2007 it was ranked 36th (between the PRC and Iceland) out of 122 countries in the Globalization
Index.
Essential
History of
Bulgaria
in Seven Pages.
The resistance became very active towards the
end of
the war,
closely and continuously supported by the British SOE.
Oslo has established a large group of telecom and software
companies.
Labor camps
were
set up and at the
height of the
repression housed
about 100,000 people.Helle was the vice dean of the Faculty of
Humanities at the University of Bergen from 1978 to 1980, and chair of the Chr.
Sverre was excommunicated
by the Church, and the country was placed under an interdict.
The Bulgars
(also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians
[2])
were a semi-nomadic people
of Turkic descent, originally from Central Asia, who
from
the
2nd
century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and
around the banks of river Volga (then Itil).In
referendums
held in 1972
and on November 28, 1994, Norway rejected joining the European Union, though it chose
to
remain associated with it through being part of the wider European Economic Area.
Upon the outbreak of
World War II, the government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Bogdan Filov
declared a position of
neutrality, being determined to observe it
until the
end of
the war, but hoping for bloodless
territorial
gains,
especially
in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after
the Second Balkan
War and World War I.
After the Finnish
Civil
War
of 1918, the victorious White troops of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim carried out terror against workers and suspected
leftists.
King Eirik
II was one of
the many claimants for the throne of
Scotland in the " Great Cause ", claiming succession from his daughter, Margaret.
Throughout April 1927 in
Shanghai, more than 12,000 people were
killed.The campaign was
supported by a
number of European intellectuals and public figures.
White
Terror
is the violence carried out by
reactionary (usually
monarchist or conservative) groups as part of a counter-revolution.
The
Black
Death arrived in Norway in 1349,
killing perhaps half the population, after which Norway entered into a period of decline, until the advent of Christina the Magnificent, also known as the good lady of Strandgaten.
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