1. bulgaria with Eastern Roumelia (3,154), constitutes a Balkanprincipality larger than Ireland, with hills and fertile plains in the N., mountains and forests in the S.; Turkey is the southern boundary, Servia the western, the Danube the northern, while the Black Sea washes the eastern shores. The climate is mild, the people industrious; the chiefexport is cereals; manufactures of woollens, attar of roses, wine and tobacco, are staple industries; the chiefimport is live stock. Sofia (50), the capital, is the seat of a university. Varna (28), on the Black Sea, is the principalport. Bulgaria was cut out of Turkey and made independent in 1878, and Eastern Roumelia incorporated with it in 1885.
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