# ![@Al_Stoyanov Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::394290194.png) @Al_Stoyanov Alexander Stoyanov

Alexander Stoyanov posts on X about bulgaria, russia, ukraine, greece the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[bulgaria](/topic/bulgaria) #186, [russia](/topic/russia), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine), [greece](/topic/greece), [syria](/topic/syria), [romania](/topic/romania), [serbia](/topic/serbia), [countries](/topic/countries), [hama](/topic/hama), [the first](/topic/the-first)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"6th July 1895-The death of former Bulgarian PM Stefan Stambolov. His assassination on 3rd July as seen by Le Petit Journal. Stambolov was shot at and massacred with a saber his hands being cut off one of his eyes torn out as well. He died three days after the attack at 3:35 AM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1412291185763360771)  2021-07-06T06:03Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Avram Tshalyovski - Bulgaria's "chocolate king". Born in Galitshik (now N.Macedonia) he rose from a poor worker to a sugar tycoon - his full story here - https://www.chr.bg/istorii/lichnosti/izkustvoto-na-biznesa-avram-chalovski-tsarya-na-shokolada/ https://www.chr.bg/istorii/lichnosti/izkustvoto-na-biznesa-avram-chalovski-tsarya-na-shokolada/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1427247770952376323)  2021-08-16T12:36Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Todor Zhivkov and his wife Mara Maleeva visiting their son Vladimir during his compulsory military service. Note the Coke - most conscript and their parents had limited to no access to this 'decadent western drink'. The occasion is Vladimir's pledge of oath ceremony 1971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1428213543036461058)  2021-08-19T04:33Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Old Sofia 1860-es. The Banyabashi Mosque up front at the back St. Kral church (now St. Nedelya). The view fits into walking up the nowadays Maria Louisa boulevard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1428664307294904320)  2021-08-20T10:24Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements


"St. Nedelya church in the 1960s as viewed from Saborna street"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1429422175312916481)  2021-08-22T12:36Z 11.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Well well well seams we conquered Romania while all eyes are on Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1499388383977742339)  2022-03-03T14:17Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Female propaganda in USSR "Woman worker cooperation frees you from the tyranny of the kitchen and the stove pot" Author: A. N. Arshinov Year: [----] Publisher: Kursk City Central Workers' Cooperative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1508453180019027979)  2022-03-28T14:37Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"BGs need to embrace the fact that BG failure over Macedonian uprisings in early XX century led to separate Macedonian identity. MKs must accept the fact that their nation derives from the Bulgarians and prior to [----] to talk about separate national identities is a long shot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1536718058751942656)  2022-06-14T14:31Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"That being said if Skopje and Sofia hold any hope of respecting their past and identity they must reach a consensus without heavy handed EU intervention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1536718332602220544)  2022-06-14T14:32Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"A look at Sofia from the Lion's Bridge end of XIX century. The Sveti Kral church (now St. Nedelya) is visible at the center of the photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1565417951766974471)  2022-09-01T19:14Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Downtown Sofia Interwar period. St. Nedelya sq. was a meeting point of several key streets and a tramway hub as can be seen. On the left outside the shot was the taxi stand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1573175434233384960)  2022-09-23T05:00Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"In the mean time Samuil's son Gabriel Radomir managed to ambush Botaniates and slaughter his entire force. Frustrated Basil tried to capture Strumitsa but the strong garrison held firm. Unable to advance or trap any other BG units Basil returned to Constantinople. It was at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1585852911673872386)  2022-10-28T04:36Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements


"That point where the frustrated emperor ordered the blinding of the captives - some [----] men. Skilitzes who was a court secretary decided to bolster his master's success by adding a zero in return for good fortunes with the emperor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1585852914853064704)  2022-10-28T04:36Z 11.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@gypsymonarchist That is actually a main street in Obelya"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1605589408060624896)  2022-12-21T15:41Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"A girl from Pernik wearing a traditional Kukeri garb. The Kukeri are Bulgarian demon hunters who chase away the evil spirits of Winter by performing ritual dances and using their enchanted bells (tshan)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1619064464170688512)  2023-01-27T20:07Z 10.8K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Major ethno-linguistic groups on the Balkans c. [----]. 'Borders' between them were of course very fluid and blur. Many regions were of mixed population or scarcely populated at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1677568333833461761)  2023-07-09T06:19Z [----] followers, 17.9K engagements


"Ethno-linguistic groups in the South-East of Europe c. [---] BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1678068863169175553)  2023-07-10T02:09Z [----] followers, 82.4K engagements


"With a population of some [--] [---] citizens Bulgaria's capital Tarnovgrad was among the biggest cities in Europe during 13th century. It had a separate Jewish district and a separate district for West Europeans - the Frankish quarter. It was also among the best fortified capitals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1685910780900749314)  2023-08-01T08:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Modern states upon the territories of which Medieval Bulgar(ian) armies have marched and fought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1693863203346747683)  2023-08-22T05:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Connor McGregor after a week in Bulgaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1699789751300296712)  2023-09-07T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgaria is expelling Russia's main church representative due to a "threat to national security""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1704849747964785050)  2023-09-21T13:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian bride and groom on their wedding day the Sofia region Bulgaria [----]. Source: Timeless Memories FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1709920327768170614)  2023-10-05T13:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Balkans in [----] amid the Ottoman Civil War (1402-1412)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1710329946776748502)  2023-10-06T16:23Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements


"If Bulgaria ever took Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1715618475631063471)  2023-10-21T06:38Z [----] followers, 13.3K engagements


"Bulgaria's first aces [----]. Colorized by "Bulgarian History""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1717464581843341339)  2023-10-26T08:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Werewolves - the Balkan's great contribution to #Halloween traditions. These demons in wolf skins first appear on the Balkans long before the rise of Christianity or Rome for that matter. The myth quickly spread across Medieval Europe with particularities developing along the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1719253003520127481)  2023-10-31T07:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian werewolves were believed to live in abandoned mills or hovels or simply dwell on crossroads deep into the woods and mountains stalking wanderers and lone travelers. They took the shape of wolves but could also transform in other beasts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1719253008188391852)  2023-10-31T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In order to hunt them down people had to use silver and wove's bane. The best one to kill a werewolf was a child born of a werewolf and a mortal woman. These special kids possessed supernatural abilities and were able to see spirits and find their weaknesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1719253011418030555)  2023-10-31T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"51% vs 43% in Sofia with 26% turnout as of 17:00. Bulgarians myself included have completely lost faith in the political order of our country. Most institutions in Bulgaria are working with the actual support of no more than 20-25% of voters. This is hardly a democracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1721196663207841998)  2023-11-05T16:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The joke that defines Bulgaria attitude towards their state and politics: Two Bulgarians are sailing the Atlantic: - George the ship is sinking - What do yo care it's not like it's yours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1721211298556317698)  2023-11-05T17:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"10th November [----] the day Bulgaria freed itself from the Communist yoke. [--] yrs later we still struggle to feel & understand freedom. Liberty as Bulgarians are yet to learn is not given but taken kept & preserved. Today should be a national holiday so Happy Liberty day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1722856721167548585)  2023-11-10T06:00Z 10.4K followers, 27K engagements


"Newspaper article form the end of March [----] noting that an Aurora Borealis has been observed in the skies over Bulgaria on the night of 24/25 March [----]. Magnetic storms disrupted the telegraph services for 1-2 hours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1723026349705560369)  2023-11-10T17:14Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Showcase of 'prosperity' - this is how shops looked like during the Communist regime in #Bulgaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1723056720304312678)  2023-11-10T19:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian soldiers paying respect to their fallen comrade - cadet sergeant Nikodim Botyov Sultanov from [--] regiment of foot who died in October [----] near Bitola. Colorized by Royal Bulgaria in Color FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1723326402122920423)  2023-11-11T13:06Z 10.4K followers, 15.6K engagements


"The Communists' plan for downtown Sofia c. [----]. From these the Presidency Council of Ministers and the so-called House of the Communist Party were actually completed by the end if the 50es. The [--] story tower "House of the Soviets" was thank God never completed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1723790326978981944)  2023-11-12T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A news cut from a Bulgarian paper from [----] telling the story of a wedding in the Bulgaria's Turkish community in the city of Osmanpazar (today Omurtag) - apparently nearly [-----] guests participated and [--] wrestlers took part in the festivity games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1725113747738399042)  2023-11-16T11:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Probably the best government Bulgaria ever had - the cabinet of prime minister Alexander Malinov (center sitting) which governed Bulgaria between [----] and [----]. They forged the Independence and reformed Bulgaria's army turning it into the most formidable among the Balkan states"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1726316986483855641)  2023-11-19T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In order to cover up their absurd financial policy between [----] and [----] the Bulgarian Communists increased the number of banknotes in circulation by over 9000%. Read more on the financial atrocities of the Bulgarian Communist party here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1727382025630515340)  2023-11-22T17:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Free Kosovo Palestine is Serbia" would put a twist into Middle Eastern politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1728646179381010617)  2023-11-26T05:25Z 11.3K followers, 14K engagements


"General Thomas Alexander Dumas - the second-most highly decorated soldier of African descent in Europe prior to the XX century. He was born the son of a french aristocrat and a Haitian slave. After the abolition of slavery in Haiti he went to France and enlisted in the army"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1728834110314127671)  2023-11-26T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Eastern Europe 1922"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1729194853672812885)  2023-11-27T17:45Z [----] followers, 21.4K engagements


"In Bulgarian particularly siktir remains a vivid element of speech including a Bulgarized verb version "siktirdosvam" which basically means sending someone to go and "f" himself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1729710229053403401)  2023-11-29T03:53Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements


"The population of Gyumyurdzhina/Gmlcine (now Komotini) welcoming the troops from Bulgaria's 11th Volunteer division - the so-called Macedonian-Odrin Conscripts 8th November 1912"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1730206899532939532)  2023-11-30T12:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Balkans a few months after the Great Dushan was gone - [----] AD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1730253275365101887)  2023-11-30T15:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"According to some crazy folks in Bulgaria it was Bulgarians who founded the Bologna university. Now I understand why there were no medieval universities in Bulgaria - our ancestors were too busy helping the poor Italians and didn't have time for their own country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731265156275941465)  2023-12-03T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A quick look of European economics c. [----] AD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731417328682738062)  2023-12-03T20:57Z [----] followers, 98.8K engagements


"Financial situation in Europe c. [----]. A per capita in this context would not be an accurate measure since in most countries wealth resided in the top 10% of the population. Thus no more than [--] [---] [---] Frenchmen (probably even 1mln) actually had access to the country's riches"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731579811708182893)  2023-12-04T07:42Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements


"The economic development of South Eastern Europe over the past [--] years. Figures are in billions in current US dollars. Data taken from the World Bank source book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731600816451027143)  2023-12-04T09:06Z [----] followers, 53.7K engagements


"Ok so I got really hipped on this [----] GDP stuff so I did a little digging and came up with a map that combines Total GDP and Percapita GDP for the year [----]. Since both differ I've colored the states in terms of political borders and not in terms of well-being. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731703923285635385)  2023-12-04T15:56Z [----] followers, 89.2K engagements


"and in Sweden Netherlands and England spending was monitored by the Parliament. Danmark-Norway had and absolutist king with many powers &few checks but its resources were not enough for any major foreign adventures as the Great Northern war was to prove soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731708627990327571)  2023-12-04T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sweden's finances were certainly impressive for a regional power but Karl XII's bid for mastery of the Baltic against Poland Russia and Denmark simply lacked the financial basis available to say France or the Ottomans in order to sustain a war against such a coalition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1731708629600915900)  2023-12-04T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BeachPapeete Ok 'Using wind-powered innovations for the production of ships textiles guns and gunpowder as well as the spread of manufactures' but Twitter only allows so many symbols"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1732008054705524986)  2023-12-05T12:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The ethnic composition of the Archipelago vilayet according to the Ottoman census of 1881"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1732629843215372414)  2023-12-07T05:15Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements


"The Two Towers Bulgarian totalitarian edition. 'Druzhba' district Sofia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1732999971220103675)  2023-12-08T05:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Religious division of the Trabzon vilayet in 1881"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1733045103764148475)  2023-12-08T08:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ottoman troops marauding among dead Russian soldiers near Plevna/Pleven following a failed Russian attack [----]. Painting by Russian military painter Vasiliy Vereshchagin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1733163560904032599)  2023-12-08T16:36Z [--] followers, 17.4K engagements


"Removing the Soviet Monument in #Sofia is not a historical destruction but rather a Special Historical Reconstruction to quote the Patron of Rusophiles in Bulgaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1734577154019467748)  2023-12-12T14:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@GreekPatriot24 Look Greek friend it is obvious you know nothing about demographic dynamics in Bulgaria. Stick to your own country 😉 Birth decline in Bulgaria started in [----]. The population growth was due to pre [----] birthrates. Most of the [---] mln in '89 were born before 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1734998117035000068)  2023-12-13T18:06Z 10.5K followers, [---] engagements


"The battles fought by #France between [----] and 1790"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1735628984874852520)  2023-12-15T11:52Z [--] followers, 66.7K engagements


"Demon faces in Golymo Belivo' s church St. George in #Bulgaria. The church was built in 1802-13 and redecorated [----] & [----]. It is unknown at what point the images appeared. Source: Vesela Howell FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1735705114025836682)  2023-12-15T16:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The military leaders' pathway of the Sofia military academy prior to [----]. There were sculptures commemorating Bulgaria's leading generals and commanders. After the communists took power the statues were destroyed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1735763174475894813)  2023-12-15T20:46Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements


"The evolution of the First Bulgarian empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736367198589878523)  2023-12-17T12:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian and Ottoman generals among them Stefan Toshev and Hilmi pasha planning an attack on Romanian positions near Kubadin First World war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736402624071467227)  2023-12-17T15:07Z [----] followers, 20.7K engagements


"The First partition of Serbia 1916"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736449764156223778)  2023-12-17T18:14Z 11.9K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Literacy rate in the Habsburg empire in 1836"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736458117766869098)  2023-12-17T18:47Z [----] followers, 52.2K engagements


"One does not simply park into Eastern Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736621912560710065)  2023-12-18T05:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Population density and settlements in #Hungary 1100-1800 Source: Hungarian National Atlas Simon Ensjo FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736733001147396579)  2023-12-18T12:59Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Group photo during the opening of Razlog train station in [----] #Bulgaria Source: Lyubomir Yurukov FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1736973547191296002)  2023-12-19T04:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@MilanJo1912 @konzervativacc Yes thanks to the Serbs. 60% of the population was Bulgarian in [----]. But you did well for the past [---] years. Bravo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737026064428273744)  2023-12-19T08:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Armenia diaspora. As late as mid 18th century the British East India company was still competing with land based Armenian merchants for the import of goods from India to Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1737719437862871387)  2023-12-21T06:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Before you blame little kids for believing in Santa Claus remember that there are millions of grownups who believe Communism works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739304127413297270)  2023-12-25T15:16Z [--] followers, 14.3K engagements


"Ethnic composition of Austria-Hungary according to the [----] census"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1739893346691149997)  2023-12-27T06:17Z [----] followers, 28.8K engagements


"Pretty much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740623517102817425)  2023-12-29T06:39Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"The closer you get to Bulgaria the fewer the cases become"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1740981453130010940)  2023-12-30T06:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SpearheadVideo @100YearsAgoNews Probably not them. The first fitness clubs in Bulgaria were established c. 1880"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740985563539546197)  2023-12-30T06:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"That is fresh - a French propaganda poster supporting Finland's resistance to the USSR 1940"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740991861513388075)  2023-12-30T07:03Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Empires of the Ancient World and the Solk roads c. [---] AD. Source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742221989794758886)  2024-01-02T16:31Z [--] followers, 32.9K engagements


"The Balkans in 1410"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1742586520983175249)  2024-01-03T16:39Z [----] followers, 25.7K engagements


"The Balkans in August [----] following the Berlin treaty (13.VII.1878). Note that at this point Bulgaria still had no capital. Bosnia was technically part of the Ottoman empire but Austria had the mandate to administrate it for [--] years after which Bosnia was to be restored"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1743320476192018847)  2024-01-05T17:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The map that proves that the Second Balkan war was inevitable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744009203990073654)  2024-01-07T14:52Z [--] followers, 32.6K engagements


"The Evolution of the Third Bulgarian state 1878-1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744403874398478399)  2024-01-08T17:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"A picture from "Macedonia its races and their future" published in [----] showing a Bulgarian village near Okhrid burnt during the Ilinden uprising in 1903"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1745085751786623184)  2024-01-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@George13Z Bulgaria's Greatest sin is letting the Ilinden uprising go down without declaring war on the Ottoman empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1745118723667878397)  2024-01-10T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If Third Bulgarian kingdom was made by Dreamworks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1745778414844330395)  2024-01-12T12:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Balkans in 1235"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1749047528622842344)  2024-01-21T12:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If Russia's army was half as great as the Kremlin's hipocricy Putin's forces would have reached Ukraine 's border with Poland ove an year ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1751169589604438115)  2024-01-27T09:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Old World in [---] AD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1753705613928911074)  2024-02-03T09:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Tech0 @TuckerCarlson The answer is simple - rubles do not smell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1755932910023016760)  2024-02-09T12:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Yet another probable Russian sabotage near #Bulgaria's largest weapons factory in Kazanlak. Since BG has been supplying guns and ammo to #Ukraine #Russia has sought ways to distort Bulgarian support"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1758994333989015896)  2024-02-17T23:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Today 18th February #Bulgaria commemorates the death of one of our greatest national heroes - Vasil Levski. His ideas were for a "pure and sacred republic in which all ethnicities coexist under the supreme law and prosper together regardless of faith and cultural differences""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1759141486459842809)  2024-02-18T09:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Food for thought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1760674843761180729)  2024-02-22T14:36Z [----] followers, 71.2K engagements


"Bulgarian stormtroopers on the Salonika front [----]. Color by Royal Bulgaria in Colour FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1761090123452579853)  2024-02-23T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian tobacco growers selling their harvest to the Bulgarian-German tobacco company named "New Macedonia" [----]. Color by Royal Bulgaria in Colour FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1761731032556908752)  2024-02-25T12:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When you are looking to separate your lands from the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria gives you that look:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1762139533993300163)  2024-02-26T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Pro-Russian parties in #Bulgaria demand the resignation of @TTagarev - probably the most effective Defense minister BG has had in recent years. It is obvious that Bulgarian support for Ukraine is so essential that #Russia is pulling all available strings in order to blunder it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1762903771263189150)  2024-02-28T18:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Literacy rates in #Bulgaria in [----]. Red means 25% literacy or above. Blue corresponds to 15-20%. For most of the country it was 5-15%. In total c. 75-80% of Bulgarians were still illiterate at the advent of XX century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1764168699249131542)  2024-03-03T05:59Z [----] followers, 13K engagements


"Today #Bulgaria celebrates its Liberation day. After five centuries of Ottoman rule on 3.3.1878 our nation once again emerged to forge its own destiny "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1764210347269849283)  2024-03-03T08:44Z [----] followers, 24.9K engagements


"106 years ago today The Central Powers defeat Russia in the #FirstWorldWar with the signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1764317045498233235)  2024-03-03T15:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"And none of these is the current Bulgarian flag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1764706881514148197)  2024-03-04T17:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In the summer of [----] Bulgaria made the most epic diplomatic blunder in her history uniting all of its neighbors against herself. The resulting Second Balkan war is known in Bulgaria as the First National Catastrophe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1765013946161909868)  2024-03-05T13:58Z [----] followers, 24.4K engagements


"In the High Middle Ages following the 4th Crusade & the collapse of Byzantium Latin states began to spread their influence & control over the Balkans. It was not until the Ottoman rise that control of the sea trade was wrestled from the Italians & Hungary was pushed back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1766115575120437404)  2024-03-08T14:55Z [----] followers, 17.8K engagements


""Penetrating Bulgaria from all sides" - a propaganda card from the Second Balkan war in 1913"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1766712376131293315)  2024-03-10T06:27Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements


"@_MKiril Judging by the language yes it is Romanian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1766719344359215588)  2024-03-10T06:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ok so now it is official"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1767077498146156726)  2024-03-11T06:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarians learning that Romania also had territorial claims towards Macedonia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1767301384687460729)  2024-03-11T21:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"European elections are coming and now suddenly there appears to be tensions between the 'nationalists' and migrants in Bulgaria. Cheap political play will come at the cost of lives ruined and social tensions escalating meaninglessly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1767635773702967447)  2024-03-12T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"111 years since the fall of Edirne/Odrin. Bulgaria's 2nd Army under gen. Nikola Ivanov aided by [--] Serbian divisions & artillery under gen. Stepa Stepanovich took what experts considered "impregnable" fortress. The coup de main was carried out by troops under gen. Georgi Vazov"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1768027764345426138)  2024-03-13T21:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The coat of arms medieval #Poland did not know it needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1769031758853353515)  2024-03-16T16:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ladies from Karnobat Bulgaria in a traditional garb. Note the headgear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1770534966377451649)  2024-03-20T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian teachers Nevena Zdraveva & Maria Gradinarova dressed in traditional garb during school celebrations [----]. The two ladies are migrants from Banat who resettled in Bulgaria after the Second Balkan war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1771089071177089369)  2024-03-22T08:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A Bulgarian German and an Ottoman soldier patrolling the streets somewhere in Romania 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1772694846366441634)  2024-03-26T18:39Z 11.9K followers, 56K engagements


"Bulgarian officer's uniform from 1916/17 as displayed in the Vienna Military museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1773022757481066689)  2024-03-27T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian queen Eleonora (right) with her step daughters Nadezhda and Evdokia as nurses during the Great war. Source: Royal Bulgaria in Colour FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1773052663300550849)  2024-03-27T18:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Honorary Ottoman guardsmen dressed in traditional military garb during the reception of Bulgarian commander in chief gen. Nikola Zhekov during a visit to Istanbul 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1773795132921290861)  2024-03-29T19:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In a Kremlin office: -Comrade Stalin a fortune-teller claiming to know the future. - Shoot him. If he actually knew the future he wouldn't have come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1774024256021508378)  2024-03-30T10:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Two young ladies fom Bulgaria photographed at the Maria Louise swimming pool in Sofia summer of [----]. The World war seamed so far away at that point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1774137333857546736)  2024-03-30T18:11Z 10.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Ladies working in the Bulgarian national library with any Bulgarian's favorite sign "This is not an Information desk" sometime in the 1920s Source: Royal Bulgaria in Colour FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1774699030435557608)  2024-04-01T07:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulgarian stormtroopers on the Salonika front summer of [----] Source: Royal Bulgaria in Colour FB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1774824903406911762)  2024-04-01T15:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An Ottoman cannonball stuck in the Theodosian walls and kept after restoration #Istanbul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1774827998140662063)  2024-04-01T15:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SlavCasusBelli Poland was separated between three empires so the total of Poles in [----] is hard to calculate but I would guess a figure between 8-10 million in [----]. Is it strange than that there are c. [--] mln Poles today To be frank it's not THAT much of an increase "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1774891367941967889)  2024-04-01T20:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Heroes kids will know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1775524495748395473)  2024-04-03T14:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A father and a son from the village of Varzulida near Svishtov Bulgaria serving together in the same company and platoon of the 58th regiment of foot during the First World war. Father was [--] years old and the son was [--]. Photo was probably taken in 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1775740176045613439)  2024-04-04T04:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Could anyone from #Moldova validate this map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1776120981167145011)  2024-04-05T05:33Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements


"An interesting division of the Roma languages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1777182122458886445)  2024-04-08T03:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A map of Turkish regions from [----]. Note that Cyprus the Dodecanese islands Aegean Thrace and the islands of Chios and Lemnos are all maped as parts of Turkey even though these territories were Greek British and Italian. The map came out just before the script reform"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1777535735882522871)  2024-04-09T03:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Statue of Bulgarian medieval emperor (tsar) Ivan Vladislav in Skopje North #Macedonia. Acknowledging a shared pass is the key to overcoming petty local quarrels on the Balkans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1777623522497479106)  2024-04-09T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Turkish soldier observing the skies during a military drill in Istanbul 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1778066524281897310)  2024-04-10T14:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Okso now @facebook has banned an image greeting Muslims for Ramadan - I apply it here - the warning and the image. In an era of Social media claiming rightshousness and high standards this goes beyond absurd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1778634376760136152)  2024-04-12T04:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"That is indeed a plausible explanation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1779141936697266508)  2024-04-13T13:37Z [----] followers, 15K engagements


"Sofia Bulgaria according to AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1779383886188790057)  2024-04-14T05:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Yancovtsi near Gabrovo in Bulgaria - Kebab house "Wild Peasants" (Divi Selyani) - the idiom is also used as a metaphor for ill-educated ill-mannered and irreversibly degraded people. The pub is among the top places for food and drink around Garbrovo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1781952182469738712)  2024-04-21T07:44Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Drinking house "Villagers' Sorrow""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1784908402860138796)  2024-04-29T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Europe's most populous cities in 1854"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1785392497817976962)  2024-04-30T19:35Z 10.4K followers, 32.6K engagements


"@RealMarioTalks Dude you have been suckling anti-Bulgaria rhetorics from the fat Serbian bossom for half a century you call our common ancestors Tatars and spit at the history of my people but I am supposed to send love and peace for your fake nation the laughing stock of the Balkans. Lmao"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1785393720273097138)  2024-04-30T19:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BorislavRe15503 @MkDPuzzle @RealMarioTalks Why waste time ho Google North Macedonia Better things to do. Told your lot - I hardly care if there is a country a wasteland or a giant hole along the Vardar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1785405158651748822)  2024-04-30T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Somewhere in nowadays North Macedonia 1941/43"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1786736900536979584)  2024-05-04T12:37Z 10.4K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Population of Bulgaria on [--] April: [--] [---] [---] Population of Bulgaria on 1st May: [--] [---] [---] Population of Bulgaria on [--] May: [--] [---] 000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1786839700218470841)  2024-05-04T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Italian map from [----] showing the ethnic composition of Albania"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1788060851011715489)  2024-05-08T04:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Princess Maria-Louise and prince Simeon of Bulgaria dressed in traditional garb 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1788161009024147842)  2024-05-08T10:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Linguistic map of Europe c. 600AD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1788994345011458211)  2024-05-10T18:07Z [----] followers, 179.6K engagements


"Bulgaria to return the remains of king Ferdinand of Saxe-Koburg-Gotha according to BNT. The king is to be buried in the Vrana royal residence just outside Sofia. This will certainly spark a major debate in a society which after a [---] years is still haunted by the memory of WW I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1789560398561083465)  2024-05-12T07:37Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"@TomOHanlon17 To Bulgaria. He is buried in Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1789562371167387996)  2024-05-12T07:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The remains of the Medieval fortress of Shumen #Bulgaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1789562695429001261)  2024-05-12T07:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A family gathering - Yakoruda Bulgaria early XX century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1790291441131921541)  2024-05-14T08:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"So the Indonesian-blooded "Pure Dutch" will rule the #Netherlands - how have the mighty fallen. When I studied at Leiden Wilders was the laughing stock of the society. And now. #BREAKING Dutch parties have reached deal on coalition govt: Wilders https://t.co/b6Hvb6kMJm #BREAKING Dutch parties have reached deal on coalition govt: Wilders https://t.co/b6Hvb6kMJm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1790757747534782622)  2024-05-15T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@vad_ham Wilders who will name the prime minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1790759512804090342)  2024-05-15T15:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Today many see Xi and Putin as strong and their states as successful. Mind you that Hitler and Mussolini seamed the same way in 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1791101785945375172)  2024-05-16T13:41Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Apparently @elonmusk is collaborating with a Bulgarian medium and sorceress d-r Nadya Boteva to lead a seminar on AI and Magic in Peshtera Bulgaria. I am thrilled that Mr. Musk will finally visit our country on such a honorable occasion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1791446989302866096)  2024-05-17T12:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Here lies Petko Liskovski b. [----] - d. [----] - Ottoman soldier (1910-12) Serbian soldier (1914-15) Bulgarian soldier (1916-18) a last gift from his grandchildren" Early XX century Balkan history in a nutshell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1793501998366826692)  2024-05-23T04:39Z [----] followers, 38K engagements


"How to irritate a Greek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1793691769554534457)  2024-05-23T17:13Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Today Bulgaria commemorates the saints Cyril and Methodius and celebrates the creation of the Bulgarian alphabet - the so-called Cyrillic written down c. 890-900 in Preslav capital of the First Bulgarian empire in the so-called Preslav school of scripture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1793893491334168980)  2024-05-24T06:35Z 10.1K followers, 23.7K engagements


"Bulgarian prince Boris I invited the disciples of St. Cyril & St. Methodius to Bulgaria following their expulsion from Great Moravia in [---]. They brought with them the Glagolic alphabet and lay the foundations of a separate Bulgarian language which helped Bulgarian culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1793896695643721743)  2024-05-24T06:47Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The Slavic language spoken in Moravia and not as suitable go the local dialects as well as the specific hard vowels of the Bulgarian language. The new scripture quickly spread through the Bulgarian empire and was used by dependant states and peoples such as Serbs & Vlachs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1793896715138814335)  2024-05-24T06:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Countries with which Bulgaria (blue) has been in a state of war or has conducted a military intervention in the past [---] years - Directly (red) or as a part of another country (pink)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1794233551346614454)  2024-05-25T05:06Z 10.1K followers, 19.6K engagements


"@Antimon_Zg Exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1794253206610186465)  2024-05-25T06:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Bulgaria recognizes the #Srebrenica massacre as a genocide in a decision that is long due. As a nation whose ancestors were victimized by the Serbs Bulgaria must sympathize with other nations that have undergone the same fate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1795741137044738376)  2024-05-29T08:57Z 10.1K followers, 24.3K engagements


"This murial of Gilgamesh and Enkidu is a whole new level of awesome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1796086229320053247)  2024-05-30T07:48Z 10.4K followers, 1.2M engagements


"@XbelKamaelSpeer They fought before becoming friends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1796094866767614147)  2024-05-30T08:22Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Ok so Serbs have elevated "pop icon" onto a whole new level"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1796594613454766145)  2024-05-31T17:28Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"A well-made video showing the ottoman fortress of Medjidi Tabiya preserved to this day near Silistra #Bulgaria. Visitors of the Regional history museum of Silistra will be able to travel through time and visit the fortification back in the XIX century https://www.youtube.com/watchv=kH5US47CNNE https://www.youtube.com/watchv=kH5US47CNNE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1796756435944009858)  2024-06-01T04:11Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@PoglediFR How bout [----] my dear Serb friend. You set thr pattern well - especially after signing a treaty with Greece behind our back on 5th May 1913"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1796880452306780473)  2024-06-01T12:24Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"South Eastern Europe according to Turks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1797589573201166750)  2024-06-03T11:22Z 10.7K followers, 10K engagements


"The independence of Bulgaria as seen by an Italian caricaturist in [----]. Note the Austro-Hungarian horse pair which was essential for Bulgaria's dash to full political emancipation. The Spirit of Stefan Stambolov watching from the sky as his dream comes true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1798024357543018503)  2024-06-04T16:09Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"1902 - The nine different ethnic groups of the Bukovina region (Austria-Hungary) From top left: Hutsul Hungarian Romani Lipovan Jew Pole Schwab Romanian Rusyn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1798042131124330709)  2024-06-04T17:20Z 10.2K followers, 42.7K engagements


"Twas Murad I actually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1798317393405792443)  2024-06-05T11:34Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Word play level Bulgaria: the word for 🐐"/koza" is pronounced almost the same way as "Cosa" in "Cosa Nostra" so the ingenious farmers have called their milk business "Koza Nostra""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1799469441039945897)  2024-06-08T15:52Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"30% of the MPs in #Bulgaria's new parliament are from parties directly linked and financed by Putin. A turnout of c. 30% has demonstrated that the majority of Bulgarians see no point in democracy or Bulgaria as a state. Hence our nation will once more be ruled from outside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1799894605078634810)  2024-06-09T20:01Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Pepina1980 Let me guess you voted for the "Left" of some sort or Vazrazhdane.in any case please spare me the lunacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1800007939153088802)  2024-06-10T03:31Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements


"I am amazed to read that there is actually a debate on wether Russia was or wasn't a colonial empire. Of course it was As was the Ottoman empire. The fact that the colonized via land rather than sea makes no actual difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1800015632265515079)  2024-06-10T04:02Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Pax Siktirica"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1800137195178848539)  2024-06-10T12:05Z 10.2K followers, 395.2K engagements


"How do you call an "open buffet" in your country In #Bulgaria we call it "Swedish table/Shvedska masa""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1800744405600796843)  2024-06-12T04:18Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A family returning from the weekly market in Sofia early XX century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1804129413040103688)  2024-06-21T12:29Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The mythical creatures of #Ireland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1804522402858012959)  2024-06-22T14:30Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"In Medieval #China a new dynasty rose when the #HawkTuah emperor came to power and spat on that Tang"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1804961384435994988)  2024-06-23T19:35Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Vienna vs Sofia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1805497646561304674)  2024-06-25T07:05Z 10.4K followers, 19K engagements


"When God created #Bulgaria He saw that it was beautiful beyond any measure. To balance things He created the Bulgarians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1806199348029464601)  2024-06-27T05:34Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"St. Peter asks a newcomer: - Born - Austro-Hungary. - Went to school - Czechoslovakia - Married in - Hungary - Kids born in - The Third Reich - And your grandchildren - USSR. - Where did you die - Ukraine. - Man you traveled a lot - Nonsense I never left Mukachevo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1807062041922032125)  2024-06-29T14:42Z 10.4K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Danail the archbishop of Vidin a candidate long connected with Russia becomes the new patriarch of #Bulgaria's Orthodox church. Being the youngest candidate his choice cemented Russia's influence over the Bulgarian church for at least three decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1807368285534466095)  2024-06-30T10:59Z 10.4K followers, 14K engagements


"@books_jeremiah In 1908"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1807509436401082867)  2024-06-30T20:20Z 10.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Bulgarian archeologists have just dug up parts of a larger than a human size statue of an ancient deity in Heraclea Sintica near the town of Petrich #Bulgaria. Details are upcoming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1808427439120351616)  2024-07-03T09:07Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Archeologists unearth a statue of over 7ft tall in Heraclea Sintica near Petrich #Bulgaria. It is probably a depiction of Hermes/Mercurius the god of travel trade and money. This is anong the best preserved statues of Late Antiquity in Bulgaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1808796676204773850)  2024-07-04T09:35Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Bebo_debel Hawk Tuah    "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1809088469018255774)  2024-07-05T04:54Z 10.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Bulgarian archaeologists discover a rare and important ring from XIV century in the citadel of Urvich near Kokalyane Sofia district. The ring bares the two headed eagle as a sigil which was used by members of the Bulgarian royal family"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1811679776312008740)  2024-07-12T08:31Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The well preserved statue found in Heraclea Sintica near Petrich #Bulgaria is likely to be an idealized image of the emperor rather than a depiction of Hermes as initially supposed. The statue was successfully moved to the regional historic museum in Petrich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1811835430247235891)  2024-07-12T18:50Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Seams legit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1812887993335583062)  2024-07-15T16:32Z 10.4K followers, 12.1K engagements


"A little known fact is that the Ottoman empire was able to conquer all of Bulgaria except one small village where a magic rakia was brewed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1814018921814737217)  2024-07-18T19:26Z 10.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Rhaenyra #Targaryen after a week in Bulgaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1816046158545903760)  2024-07-24T09:41Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"The Latin states of Greece and the Ottoman empire in [----] following the Civil war between the sons of Bayazid I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1816177597208039469)  2024-07-24T18:24Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"So it seams that the "Tree Seas initiative" is actually based on a solid foundation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1816515277687005199)  2024-07-25T16:46Z 10.4K followers, 59.1K engagements


"#BreakingNews Children from #Liechtenstein playing "hide and seek" have incidentally invaded #Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1816913527850041600)  2024-07-26T19:08Z 10.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Linguistic and political map of Eastern Europe Casimir Delamarre 1868"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1817860016386224358)  2024-07-29T09:49Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements


"It was the so-called "Macedonian" lobby that initiated the aggressive policy - 1/3 of Bulgarian politicians and generals at the time were born in Vardar Macedonia and hence demanded their homeland be liberated and integrated into Bulgaria. IMRO was also a strong factor. Bulgarian military logic explained https://t.co/gZ755ccpUe Bulgarian military logic explained https://t.co/gZ755ccpUe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Al_Stoyanov/status/1817960898365112520)  2024-07-29T16:30Z 10.5K followers, [----] engagements

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