• Sofia, New Mexico, was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States, and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia?
• a song about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo was sent into space in 1977 as part of the Voyager Golden Record?
• south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski, a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors?
• the 1994 French–Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars?
• Parteniy Pavlovich from Silistra, an 18th-century Bulgarian cleric and writer, is regarded as the author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature?
• ispolini, ancient giants of Bulgarian mythology, perceived blackberry bushes as a great danger and offered sacrifices to them?
• Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski, best man to national poet Hristo Botev, was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria?
• Bulgarian–Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff, an honorary citizen of Turin, studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar?
• Czech–Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter, chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?
• Pirot-born Krastyo Krastev, the first professional Bulgarian literary critic, was a shorthand writer for the National Assembly of Bulgaria while still a schoolboy?
• Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?

Facts on topics related to Bulgarians

Bulgarian Orthodox Church

• the Baroque church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi (pictured), which houses the hearts of 25 popes, was presented to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by Pope John Paul II?

History of Bulgaria

• English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott, who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria, learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child?

First Bulgarian Empire

• Sviatoslav of Kiev was invited by the Byzantine Empire to attack Bulgaria in order to force them to make concessions, but ended up conquering the country?
• in 1018, Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles entered the stronghold of Ibatzes of Bulgaria and blinded and captured him, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance to the Byzantine conquest?
• in 792 the Bulgarians captured the tent and treasury of the Byzantine emperor during a battle at the fortress of Markeli near modern Karnobat, Bulgaria?
• the Byzantine writer and diplomat Leo Choirosphaktes was imprisoned on his first embassy to Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria, but continued negotiations from his cell?
• the Christian Byzantine Emperor Leo V performed pagan rituals in Constantinople at the signing of a peace treaty in 815 with the Bulgarians?
• the Palace of Omurtag, an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria, includes the episcopal see of an Arian Gothic bishop besides a medieval Bulgarian fort?

Second Bulgarian Empire

• medieval Bulgarian military leader Ivan the Russian defended Plovdiv in a four-month Byzantine siege only for the citizens to let the Byzantines in while he was away?
• the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire?