Atlas of Bulgaria
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General maps
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Topographic map of Bulgaria[8] |
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Map of Bulgaria[9] |
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Map of Bulgaria |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Bulgaria, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Bulgaria.
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Ancient map of Thrace (made in 1585) |
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The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE |
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Hellenistic successor states of the Macedon Empire: Kingdom of Kingdom of Kingdom of Kingdom of Other states: |
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present |
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Extent of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire; 133 BC 44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals) AD 14 (death of Augustus) 117 (maximum extension) |
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Invasions of the Roman Empire 100-500 |
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Roman era Balkans, map by Alexander G. Findlay, 1849 |
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Roman era Balkans |
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Map of the Roman Empire in 50 |
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Camps of the Roman Legions in 80 |
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Map of the Roman Empire in 116 |
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The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders. |
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Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus 527-565 |
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Map showing the location of Bulgars, c. 650. |
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Foundation of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681 |
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The First Bulgarian Empire under Khan Krum 803–814 (The empire includes the both lands painted in yellow and green) |
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The First Bulgarian Empire under Knyaz Boris 852–889 (The empire includes the both lands painted in lighter and darker yellow colours) |
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The First Bulgarian Empire's greatest territorial extent during the reign of Tsar Simeon (The empire includes the both lands painted in beige and orange) |
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The First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil 997–1014 |
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The Byzantine Empire under Basil II, c. 1025 |
The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1081 |
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The Second Bulgarian Empire under Tsars Ivan Asen I and Peter IV 1185–1197 (in dark yellow) and under Tsar Kaloyan 1197-1207 (in both light and dark yellow) |
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Territorial expansion of the Second Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Ivan Asen II 1218-1241 (The empire includes the both lands painted in lighter and darker yellow colours) |
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The Second Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Theodore Svetoslav 1300–1322 |
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Fragmenting of the Second Bulgarian Empire into two Bulgarian Tsardoms and many small possessions (in the late 14th century) followed by Ottoman conquering of the state |
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Growth of the Ottoman Empire |
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Development of the European part of the Ottoman Empire 15th-19th century |
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Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683 |
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Ethnic map of the Ottoman Empire (1861) |
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The Spread of Slavs in the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian-Danubian space (1869) |
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Proposed restoration of Bulgaria after the Conference of Constantinople, 1876 (rejected proposal by the Ottoman Empire) |
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Restoration of Bulgarian state (now as Third Bulgarian state) in 1878, but still as client state of the Ottoman Empire |
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The Third Bulgarian state lost most of its territories in the same 1878 |
Ethnic map of the Balkan Peninsula (1898) |
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Bulgarians in 1912 |
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Boundaries on the Balkans before and after the First and the Second Balkan War 1912-1913 (The Third Bulgarian state has been completely independent and not client state since 1908) |
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Map of Bulgaria during WWI |
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Bulgaria after WWI 1918-1941 |
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Map of Bulgaria during WWII |
Dobruja
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Scythia Minor |
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Map of Romania and Bulgaria with Dobruja highlighted |
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Borders in Dobruja |
The fronteer between Northern and Southern Dobruja |
The fronteer between Romania and Bulgaria (1913-1940) |
Ethnic map of Dobruja (1918) |
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Dobruja Germans |
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Oblasti between 1987 and 1999 |
History of the wider geographical region of Macedonia
- Not to be confused with the modern Republic of Macedonia
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Greater Macedonia (region) |
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Borders of Macedonia (region) according authors (1843-1927) |
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French Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia (region), 19th century (point of view of Bulgarians) |
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French Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia (region), 19th century (point of view of Serbs) |
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Division of Macedonia (region) between the Balkan states (Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania), 1913 |
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Geographic region of Macedonia through the years |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
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Bulgaria as part of the Ottoman Empire, a map by T. Jefferys, 1785 |
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Map of the South-East Balkans |
Provinces of Bulgaria
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Provinces of Bulgaria |
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Municipalities of Bulgaria |
Other maps
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Eparchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church |
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Extreme points |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
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