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Countries shown in this late winter satellite image of the southern Balkan Peninsula include Italy (left center edge), Greece (below center), and Turkey (right edge). At upper right is the Black Sea, at center is the Aegean Sea, at upper left is the Adriatic Sea, and at bottom left is the Mediterranean Sea. North of Turkey are Bulgaria and Romania. Moving clockwise from top left are Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Albania. North of Albania is Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Red dots indicating scattered fires are fairly widespread across Bulgaria. Image courtesy of NASA.
A wintertime false-color image shows most of Bulgaria covered in snow (light blue). The Danube River, which makes up much of the northern border of the country, snakes across the top of the photo. Clouds appear white as do exhaust plumes from power plants at Galabovo and Radetski. Image courtesy of NASA.
Baba Vida, a medieval fortress in Vidin in northwestern Bulgaria, is the town's primary landmark and a popular tourist destination.
Baba Vida, a medieval fortress in Vidin in northwestern Bulgaria, is the town's primary landmark and a popular tourist destination.
The Vidin Synagogue, completed in 1894, was the second largest synagogue in Bulgaria. Most of its congregation emigrated to Israel following World War II and the synagogue, in ruins following the war, was seized by the communist government in 1950. Plans to restore the building started in the 1970’s with work beginning in 1983 and interrupted when the government collapsed in 1989. In 2012, the Ministry of Culture announced plans to restore the building into a museum complex that includes a library, meeting hall, prayer spaces, and commemoration of the Holocaust, naming it after Vidin-born Jewish artist Jules Pascin.
Wall of the Belogradchik Fortress in the rocks near Vidin.
Wall of the Belogradchik Fortress in the rocks near Vidin.
One of the Belogradchik Rocks near Vidin. Some of the Rocks were incorporated into the walls and defenses of Belogradchik Fortress.
Belogradchik Rocks near Vidin. Each of the limestone rocks has its own name.
Belogradchik Rocks near Vidin. Each of the limestone rocks has its own name.
Belogradchik Rocks near Vidin. Each of the limestone rocks has its own name.
The St. Alexander Nevesky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, is one of the 50 largest Christian church buildings by volume in the world, among the 10 largest Eastern Orthodox church buildings, and the largest cathedral in the Balkans. The cathedral, built in Neo-Byzantine style, occupies an area of 3,170 square meters (34,100 sq ft) and can hold 5,000 people. Its namesake is Alexander Nevesky, a 13th-century prince, later declared a saint, who engaged in some of the toughest battles of the Kievan Rus (a Slavic tribes federation and the ancestor of today’s Russia). St. Alexander Nevesky Cathedral is dedicated to the memory of the Russian soldiers who died liberating Bulgaria from Ottoman rule during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Construction began on the cathedral in 1882, and it was completed in 1912. The cathedral was consecrated in 1924 and declared a cultural monument in 1955.
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