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   Bulgaria

   Ottoman rule ... Now[update] Bulgaria faces a severe demographic crisis: the population has a fertility-rate of 1.4 children per woman as of 2007, with a predicted rate of 1.7 by the end of 2050.
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   Turks in Bulgaria

   Turks in Bulgaria During Communist Rule (1945 to 1989) ... During the holidays the children are taught the Koran, Turkish literature, Turkish history and language .
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   Simeon I of Bulgaria

   During Simeon's rule, Bulgaria spread over a territory between the Aegean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea, and the new Bulgarian capital Preslav was said to rival Constantinople. ... Bulgarian national writer Ivan Vazov dedicated a children's patriotic poem to him, "Car Simeon", and it was later arranged as a song, "Kraj Bosfora šum se vdiga" ("Noise Is Being Made Near the Bosphorus").
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   Orders, decorations, and medals of Bulgaria

   | | Order Of Maternal Glory (1st Class). | 13 December,1950/ 5 April, 1991 | Awarded to Bulgarian mothers for raising 8 or 9 children. ... | | 100th Anniversary Of Liberation From Ottoman Rule. | 22 February,1978/ | Awarded to Bulgarian and foreign citizens and organisations for their activity in organising the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.
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   History of Bulgaria

   The exception to this were some groups of the population with specific statute, usually used for auxiliary or rear services, and the famous "tribute of children" (or blood tax), also known as the "devsirme", whereby every fifth young boy was taken to be trained as a warrior of the Empire. ... Historical maps of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule (1396-1878)
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   Samuel of Bulgaria

   The Byzantine troops recaptured Preslav and Pliska, putting north-eastern Bulgaria once again under Byzantine rule. ... They had five children: the successor Gavril Radomir and four daughters: Theodora Kosara, Miroslava, Katun Anastasiya and Agatha.
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   Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria

   Early rule ... By his second wife Sarah-Theodora, Ivan Alexander had several other children, which included Keraca Marija, who married the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Ivan Šišman, who succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria in Tǎrnovo 1371–1396, Ivan Asen V, associated as emperor of Bulgaria by 1359–1388?, as well as two daughters named Desislava and Vasilisa.
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   Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria

   Early rule ... Michael Asen I, who succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria 1246–1256.
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   History of Bulgaria (1878–1946)

   There was a substantial Bulgarian population still living under Ottoman rule, particularly in Macedonia. ... History of Bulgaria
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    History of the Balkans

    A final defeat at Kleidion in 1014, however, precipitated the fall of the whole of Bulgaria under Byzantine rule in 1018. ... The attributes of ‘war’, also encompasses the rapes of men, women and children - (mass-rapes included), the pillaging of towns, villages and homesteads with the aim of inflicting as much pain and trauma upon its unwilling participants as possible (Diken & Lausten, 2005).

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• History of Bulgaria (1878–1946),
• History of the Balkans