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Natural History Museum Attractions In Bulgaria

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Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres , Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6,500 BC. In Antiquity , the region became a battleground for Thracians, Persians, Celts and Ancient Macedonians until it was conquered...
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Natural History Museum Attractions In Bulgaria

  • 2. National Museum of Natural History Sofia
    The National Museum of Natural History of Bulgaria is a museum of natural history located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, on Tzar Osvoboditel Str., next to the Russian church. Founded in 1889, it is affiliated with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and is the first and largest museum of this kind in the Balkans. The Museum's collection includes over 400 stuffed mammals, over 1,200 species of birds, hundreds of thousands of insects and other invertebrates, as well as samples of about one quarter of the world's mineral species. The National Museum of Natural History was founded in 1889 as the Natural History Museum of Knyaz Ferdinand of Bulgaria, with various foreign and Bulgarian specialists serving as its directors until 1947, when the museum became part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sci...
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