The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia. The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Orthodox Church in the world after the four Eastern Patriarchates: those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. Including:

• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Canonical status and organisation
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Dioceses
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - History of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Early Christianity
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Establishment of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Autocephaly of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Ohrid Archbishopric
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Turnovo Patriarchate
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Ottoman rule
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Bulgarian Exarchate
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Second restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate

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Boris is a Bulgarian name, also common in Russia and Slovenia. Tsar Boris I was the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire. Tsar Boris II was ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, son of Peter I. Tsar Boris III was ruler of Bulgaria during the first half of the 20th century. Boris Godunov became tsar of Russia during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Boris and Gleb were Russian princes, murdered 1015, and first Russian saints. Boris Becke

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2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5766-5767 in the Hebrew Calendar, 5107-5108 in the Hindu Calendar, 1426-1427 in the Islamic Calendar, 1384-1385 in the Iranian calendar, 4703 in the Chinese calendar, and 2759 a.U.c. It is also the current year. It has been designated: The International Year of Deserts and Desertification The Rembrandt Year, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrand ...

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• 2006 - January
• 2006 - February
• 2006 - March
• 2006 - April
• 2006 - May
• 2006 - June
• 2006 - July
• 2006 - August
• 2006 - September
• 2006 - October
• 2006 - November
• 2006 - December
• 2006 - Major Religious Holidays
• 2006 - Unknown/undecided dates
• 2006 - Deaths in 2006
• 2006 - January
• 2006 - 2006 in Fiction

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Bianka Panova (Bulgarian: Бианка Панова) (born May 27, 1970 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She was the first rhythmic gymnast to get a clean sweep of all 5 (All-Around, Ribbon, Clubs, Hoop, Rope) gold medals at the 1987 world championships in Varna, Bulgaria with the perfect score of 40.00 points. She retired from the sport in 1989 and became a coach in Italy where she coached the Italian National Champion, Katia Pietrosanti, who is the only Italian to medal at a world championships. Bianka tried to make a comeback in 1992 but failed to make the Bulgarian olympic team. She ...

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Little Yus (Ѧ, ѧ) and Big Yus (Ѫ, ѫ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in iotified form (Ѩ, ѩ,Ѭ, ѭ), as a ligature with the letter I. Phonetically, Little Yus represents IPA [ɛ̃], and Big Yus IPA [ɔ̃]. Names of the letters do not imply capitalization: both Little and Big Yus ...

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The Bitola inscription is an inscription made by order of Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav in 1015 or 1016 in connection with the fortification of the Bitola fortress. The inscription was found in 1956 in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia and is stored at the Bitola Historical Museum. Text of the inscription (translation from Old Bulgarian): In year 6253 (1015) since the creation of the world, this fortress, built and made by Ivan, Tsar of Bulgaria, was renewed with the help and the prayers of Our Most Holy Lady and through ...

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The Black Sea (known as the Euxine Sea in antiquity) is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch. There is a net inflow of seawater through the Bosporus, 200 km³ per year. There is an inflow of freshwater from the surrounding areas, especially central and middle-eastern Europe, totalling 320 km³ per year. The most important ...

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• Black Sea - Name
• Black Sea - Geology
• Black Sea - Ryan-Pitman Deluge Theory
• Black Sea - History
• Black Sea - Holiday resorts and spas

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Belgrade (listen ▶ (help·info)), is the capital of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–Present). It is one of the oldest cities in Europe settled in the 3rd century BC by the Celts before becoming the Roman settlement of Singidunum. The name Beograd (Belgrade) has been first mentioned back in year 878. It has been the capital of Serbia sinc ...

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• Belgrade - Education
• Belgrade - Sport and recreation
• Belgrade - Night life
• Belgrade - Received decorations
• Belgrade - Twin cities
• Belgrade - Quotations

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Tea is a product made from the leaves or buds of the tea bush Camellia sinensis. It is commonly consumed in the form of a beverage made by steeping it in hot water for a few minutes. The English word tea derives from the Chinese 茶, pronounced te in the Min Nan dialect. The flavour of the raw tea is developed by processes including oxidation, heating, drying and the addition of other herbs, spices, or f ...

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• Tea - Cultivation
• Tea - Processing and classification
• Tea - Blending and additives
• Tea - Content of Tea
• Tea - Tea origin and early history in Asia
• Tea - Tea creation myths
• Tea - China
• Tea - Japan
• Tea - Tea spreads to the world
• Tea - The word tea
• Tea - Tea culture
• Tea - China
• Tea - Vietnam
• Tea - Britain
• Tea - Hong Kong
• Tea - Iran
• Tea - Ireland
• Tea - India
• Tea - Pakistan
• Tea - Sri Lanka
• Tea - Turkey
• Tea - Russia
• Tea - Czech Republic
• Tea - Commonwealth countries
• Tea - United States
• Tea - Japan
• Tea - Taiwan
• Tea - Tibet
• Tea - Tea preparation
• Tea - Enjoying tea the modern way

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The Danube (Donau in German; Dunaj in Slovak; Duna in Hungarian; Dunav in Croatian; Дунав/Dunav in Serbian; Дунав in Bulgarian; Dunăre in Romanian; Дунай (Dunay) in Ukrainian; Danuvius in Latin) is Europe's second-longest river (after the Volga). It rises in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers – the Brigach and the Breg – which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing south-eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles) before emptying into t ...

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• Danube - Tributaries
• Danube - Modern navigation
• Danube - The Danube delta
• Danube - Geology
• Danube - Human history
• Danube - Cultural significance
• Danube - Economics of the Danube
• Danube - Drinking Water
• Danube - Navigation and transport
• Danube - Fishing
• Danube - Tourism
• Danube - Notes

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Joseph is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, and Tiberian Hebrew Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelt يوسف or Yūsuf. The name can be translated from Hebrew as signifying "The Lord will increase/add". This variant of the name is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. As a biblical and saints' name, Joseph has enjoyed significant and well deserved popularity in its many forms ...

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• Joseph - Religious figures
• Joseph - Political leaders
• Joseph - Placenames
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About 115. Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authors accept anything from 105 to 125 species. Pine - Distribution. Pines are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. In North America, they range from the Arctic south to Nicaragua and Hispaniola, with the highest diversity in Mexico and California. In Eurasia, they range from Portugal and Scotland east to the Russian Far East, Japan, and the Ph ...

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• Pine - Distribution
• Pine - Morphology
• Pine - Foliage
• Pine - Cones
• Pine - Ecology
• Pine - Classification of Pines
• Pine - List of pines by region
• Pine - Old World
• Pine - New World
• Pine - Name origins
• Pine - Uses
• Pine - Nutritional use

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Region can be used to mean either: any more or less well-defined geographical area of a country or continent, defined by geography, culture or history in political geography, an administrative subdivision of a country or of the European Union. It is a common English translation of the Russian and Ukrainian administrative subdivision область (oblast) or the Bulgarian counterpart област. It is worth noting that regions are found in the minds of humans and so regions c ...

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• Region - Administrative regions
• Region - Countries using administrative regions
• Region - Non-first-level administrative regions
• Region - Traditional or informal regions
• Region - Geographical regions
• Region - Examples of geographical regions

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Christ ...

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• Easter - Nature and Development
• Easter - Easter in the early Church
• Easter - Date of Easter
• Easter - Computations
• Easter - Position in the church year
• Easter - Western Christianity
• Easter - Eastern Christianity
• Easter - Religious observation of Easter
• Easter - Western Christianity
• Easter - Eastern Christianity
• Easter - Non-religious Easter traditions
• Easter - North America
• Easter - Scandinavia
• Easter - Central Europe
• Easter - Easter controversies
• Easter - Anti-Easter Christians
• Easter - Possible pagan influences on Easter traditions
• Easter - Easter as a Sumerian festival
• Easter - Miscellaneous
• Easter - Word for Easter in various languages

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Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe". Bagpipes - Overview. A bagpipe is a wind instrument consisting of one or more musical pipes which are fed continuously by a reservoir of air in a bag. Air is supplied either by the player's breath (via a blowpipe), or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way valve which prevents air from retur ...

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• Bagpipes - Overview
• Bagpipes - History
• Bagpipes - Types
• Bagpipes - The great highland bagpipe
• Bagpipes - The Irish Uilleann bagpipe
• Bagpipes - The Northumbrian smallpipe
• Bagpipes - The Scottish smallpipe
• Bagpipes - The biniou
• Bagpipes - French and Occitan bagpipes
• Bagpipes - The border pipe
• Bagpipes - The gaita
• Bagpipes - The Brian Boru bagpipe
• Bagpipes - Categories
• Bagpipes - Other types
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in non-traditional forms of music
• Bagpipes - Classical works featuring bagpipes
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in jazz
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in rock
• Bagpipes - Bagpipes in other forms of music
• Bagpipes - Bagpipe aphorisms
• Bagpipes - Bagpipe humour
• Bagpipes - Notes

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Decapitation, or beheading, is the removal of a living organism's head. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, or knife, or by means of a guillotine. Accidental decapitation can be the result of an explosion, automobile or industrial accident or other violent injury. Suicide by decapitation is rare, but not unknown. In 2003 a British man killed himself by means of a home-made guil ...

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• Decapitation - Decapitation throughout history
• Decapitation - Decapitation in the modern world
• Decapitation - Some famous persons who have been beheaded
• Decapitation - Biblical
• Decapitation - Celtic Saints
• Decapitation - Islamic
• Decapitation - China
• Decapitation - England
• Decapitation - French Revolution
• Decapitation - Italy
• Decapitation - Mythological
• Decapitation - Scotland
• Decapitation - Nazi Germany
• Decapitation - Modern era
• Decapitation - Other meanings of the word

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Bogomilism is the Gnostic dualistic sect, the synthesis of Armenian Paulicianism and local Slavonic Church reform movement in Bulgaria between 950 and 1396. Bogomilism - The Origin. The now defunct Gnostic social-religious movement and doctrine originated in the time of Peter I of Bulgaria (927-969) as a reaction against state and clerical oppression. In spite of all measures of repression, it remained strong and popular until the fall of Bulgaria in the end of 14th century. It is difficult to ascert ...

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• Bogomilism - Doctrine
• Bogomilism - History
• Bogomilism - Name

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The Branch Davidians are a religious group originating from the Seventh-day Adventist church. They are best known because of the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian building near Waco, Texas, by federal agents, which ended in the deaths of eighty of the church's members, including head figure David Koresh and two full-term infants spontaneously delivered as their mothers perished in the flames. Church members did not describe themselves as Branch Davidians. Branch Davidian - History. In 1929, Victor Houteff, ...

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• Branch Davidian - History
• Branch Davidian - BATF raid and siege
• Branch Davidian - Prelude
• Branch Davidian - The raid
• Branch Davidian - The siege
• Branch Davidian - The assault
• Branch Davidian - Shootings
• Branch Davidian - Allegations about a cover-up
• Branch Davidian - Documentary films
• Branch Davidian - Legal aftermath
• Branch Davidian - Today
• Branch Davidian - Bibliography

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Albania: 5,000 Argentina: 30,0004 Austria: 50,0003 Canada: 15,1951 (2001) - 150,0004 Czech Republic: 10,0003 France: 20,0003 Germany: 120,0003 Greece: 37,2302 (2001) - 170,0003 Hungary: 3,0001 (2001) Italy: 100,0003 Kazakhs ...

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• Bulgarians - Population
• Bulgarians - Culture
• Bulgarians - Contribution to humanity
• Bulgarians - Language
• Bulgarians - Name System
• Bulgarians - Religion
• Bulgarians - Symbols
• Bulgarians - Customs
• Bulgarians - Name
• Bulgarians - Relation with other peoples
• Bulgarians - Toponyms
• Bulgarians - Antroponyms
• Bulgarians - History
• Bulgarians - Bulgars and Slavs
• Bulgarians - Medieval history
• Bulgarians - Ottoman domination
• Bulgarians - Bulgarian revival period
• Bulgarians - 20th century Bulgarians
• Bulgarians - Population data

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apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) ( ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interrobang ( Including:

• Quotation mark - Usage
• Quotation mark - Quotations and speech
• Quotation mark - Emphasis and irony
• Quotation mark - Titles of artistic works
• Quotation mark - Nicknames and false titles
• Quotation mark - Typographical considerations
• Quotation mark - Punctuation
• Quotation mark - Spacing
• Quotation mark - Non-language related usage
• Quotation mark - Glyphs
• Quotation mark - Typewriter quotation marks
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in English
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Finnish and Swedish
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Germany and Austria
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Polish
• Quotation mark - Angled quotation marks in various European languages
• Quotation mark - Quotation dash
• Quotation mark - Corner brackets in East Asian languages
• Quotation mark - Table
• Quotation mark - Names for quotation marks
• Quotation mark - Double quotation mark

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Albanian (gjuha shqipe /ˈɟuˌha ˈʃciˌpɛ/) is a language spoken by over 6 million people primarily in Albania, but also by smaller numbers of ethnic Albanians in other parts of the Balkans, along the eastern coast of Italy and in Sicily, as well as by emigrant groups in Scandinavia, Germany, Greece the UK and the USA. The language forms its own distinct branch of the Indo-European language family. Albanian language - Classification. Albanian was pro ...

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• Albanian language - Classification
• Albanian language - Albanology
• Albanian language - How Albanian compares with other languages
• Albanian language - Geographic distribution
• Albanian language - Official status
• Albanian language - Dialects
• Albanian language - Sounds
• Albanian language - Consonants
• Albanian language - Vowels
• Albanian language - Grammar
• Albanian language - Vocabulary
• Albanian language - Writing system
• Albanian language - History
• Albanian language - Examples

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