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   Bulgaria

   Todor Zhivkov dominated Bulgaria politically for 35 years, from 1954 to 1989. ... It established its rule with the coup d'état of September 9 that year.
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   1989

   1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... November 10 – After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
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   Outline of Bulgaria

   Centuries later, with the decline of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 – 1396/1422), the country came under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries. ... Main article: Government of Bulgaria
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   Turks in Bulgaria

   Turks in Bulgaria constituted 9.4% of the total population in 2001 and are the largest minority group in Bulgaria. ... Starting in 1956, the regime gradually began to embark on a long-term assimilation policy towards Muslims and/or Turks in Bulgaria, which was routinely pursued with more or less intensity until the end of Communist rule and culminated in two periods of intensive campaigns, each lasting several years.
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   Islam in Bulgaria

   Banya Bashi mosque, built in 1576 by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, is the only functioning mosque that remains of 500 years of Ottoman domination in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria ... Most of the Muslims in Bulgaria are Sunni Muslims as Sunni Islam was the form of Islam promoted by the Ottoman Empire during their five-century rule of Bulgaria (see History of Bulgaria).
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   History of early Ottoman Bulgaria

   After falling almost entirely under Ottoman rule in the end of the 14th century, the Bulgarian state ceased to exist as an independent entity and remained part of the Ottoman Empire for nearly five centuries until 1878. ... Islam in Bulgaria
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   History of Bulgaria

   Bulgaria was once again under Roman rule. ... Byzantium ruled Bulgaria from 1018 to 1185, subordinating the independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church to the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople but otherwise interfering little in Bulgarian local affairs.
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   Bulgaria – United States relations

   | | Bulgaria | United States | ... Zhivkov remained Party Secretary for thirty-three years, one of the longest rule of any Soviet-bloc leader.
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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. ... Rulers of Bulgaria.
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    Samuel of Bulgaria

    Samuel ruled northwestern Bulgaria from the strong fortress of Vidin. ... Many Byzantine fortresses fell under Bulgarian rule.

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• Simeon I of Bulgaria,
• Samuel of Bulgaria

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