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Here are some highlights from Bulgaria's plentiful heritage:
 
- Bulgaria has 1324 years of history, since 611 A.D.
- The oldest handcrafted gold in the world, created by the oldest civilization in Europe - the Varna gold treasure /6-5 Millenia B.C./ - was found on the territory of Bulgaria along with many other exquisite gold and silver Thracian treasures.
- Bulgaria has developed culture in 2 alphabets - the Cyrillic /9th century/ and the Glagolitic /862/. Cyrillic is the basis of most languages, spoken in Eastern Europe today.
- Bulgaria is the first Slavic nation that adopted Christianity.
- Bulgaria was one of the three biggest empires in Europe together with the Frankish and the Byzantine.
- George Atanassov, the inventor of the computer, is of Bulgarian origin.
- Bulgaria is well known in the whole world for its famous Rose Valley. Here and nowhere else are grown the roses, from which the rose oil is produced, a necessary component in many perfumes. 2 000 flowers are needed for just one single gram of the precious attar of roses whose price equals that of gold!
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