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| Balkan States |
the countries on the Balkan Peninsula, including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and European Turkey; the Balkans. |
| Central Powers |
a World War I alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary together with Turkey and Bulgaria. |
| Cyrillic |
designating or concerning the alphabet used in Russia, Bulgaria, and other Slavic countries. |
| EU |
abbreviation of "European Union," an economic and political union of twenty-seven democratic countries formed from the European Economic Community in 1993. The union currently consists of the member states Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. |
| European Union |
an economic and political union of a large number of democratic countries in Europe formed in 1993 from the former European Economic Community. Additional nations have joined since 1993, and one, the United Kingdom, had been a member originally but removed itself in 2020. The European Union currently consists of the member states Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Many of the countries share a common currency, the Euro. |
| lev |
the chief monetary unit of Bulgaria, equaling one hundred stotinki. |
| Sofia |
the capital of Bulgaria. |
| stotinka |
the smaller monetary unit of Bulgaria. (Cf. lev.) |
| Thrace |
a wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea, colonized by ancient Greeks and encompassing parts of present day Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey. |
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