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THE GOOD LIFE - AND WIDESPREAD OBESITY - HA VE COME TO A FERTILE LAND THA T NOT LONG AGO WAS A MUSEUM PIECE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
In les than 50 years, Bulgaria has been transformed from a country of poor peasants into one of the most advanced and prosperous states of Eastern Europe. The town has replaced the village as the centre of Bulgarian life. The seven or eight-hour working day usually starts early and ends in mid-afternoon, leaving time for a long dinner and a siesta before the town spring to life for the evening.
Centring on the Maritsa river valley, Bulgaria straddles the north-west approaches of the strategic land bridge linking Europe and Asia Minor. It has a coast on the Black Sea which help to attract 6 million tourist a year, and a climate ranging from Mediterranean in the south-facing valleys to extreme continental in the mountains and the north. It is a fertile land with substantial mineral and water resources, natural beauty and a charm that has survived the dramatic changes of the last 50 years.
The Bulgars are a Turkic-Tartar race who conquered a Slav civilisation between AD 500 and 700. The Bulgars became a ruling aristocracy, but absorbed Slav language and culture. The territory was overrun by the Byzantine Empire in 1018, but the Bulgars returned to power in 1186.
In 1396 the country fell to the Turks, who imposed serfdom and severe taxation. A Bulgarian uprising in 1876 was brutally crushed. International outrage, and Russian defeat of the Turk in 1878, laid the foundation of an independent Bulgarian state and formed the roots of Bulgarian-Russian friendship. The last formal links with Turkey were severed after the First Balkan War of 1912, when combined Bulgars, Greek, Serb and Montenegrin forces ousted the Turks.
Bulgaria was an uneasy ally of Germany in the Second World War. When Russian forces invaded in 1944 the Communists seized power and the tsarist monarchy was abolished, A substantial Turkish minority - about 8•5 per cent ('If the population - remains to this day.
The relatively good life today has been created by a revolution in farming. Food output has quadrupled since the 1950s when 13 million parcels of peasant land were made into 3453 collective farms. These, in turn, were fused into 792 large units in 1959, averaging 7000 hectares (17 300 acres) each. Workers earn wages for their work on a farm or in a factory, and many families feed themselves from small plots exempted from the collective farming programme, growing fruit and vegetables, and raising poultry and pig.
The collective farms have increased output by using more machinery, fertilisers and irrigation, specialising by area: irrigated rice along the DANUBE in the north; wheat, maize, sugar beet, vines and fruit on the north-sloping Danube plain; sunflowers around Razgrad in the north-east and rose for perfume in the KAZANLUK basin; cereals, tobacco, cotton and fruit in the broad Maritsa valley. Mulberry trees are grown to feed silkworms around Svilengrad near the frontier with Greece and Turkey, and tobacco crops flourish in the Southern valleys. Livestock is reared in the BALKAN and RHODOPE mountains.
While smallholdings have been forged into collective farms, ome 160 larger collectives have been developed since the 1960s into agro industrial complexes. These combine modern, crop-growing estates with food-processing plants covering, for example, the extraction of sugar from sugar beet. cotton ginning (separating the seeds and seed hulls from the cotton fibres), and canning, freezing and packing plants, Employing these advanced agricultural method has yielded Bulgaria large earnings from exports.
Farm mechanisation has released people to fill jobs in the growing number of mines and factories. One-third of industrial jobs lie within 80 km (50 miles) of the capital, Sofia, but the re t are widely dispersed. A wide range of minerals is processed - coal, natural gas, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc and chrome - and there are abundant water supplies and hydroelectricity for textile, clothing and engineering factories. The large tourist trade on the Black Sea coast, however, has confined industry there to the ports Of VARNA (shipbuilding) and BURGAS (petrochemicals and metals).
The urban population has increased from I in 5 back in 1946 to more than 3 in 5 today. Sofia, with a population of 1. t million, is six times larger than 40 years ago. New town like DIMITROVGRAD and Pernik house the workers mining and processing coal and metal ores.
Today, Bulgaria ranks as the third most urbanised Communist country in Europe, after East Germany and Czechoslovakia, having overtaken Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union in the 19705. One reason for the Bulgars quick progress has been relative freedom from Communist dogma imposed from outside. They adopt a pro-Soviet stance, which makes them more reliable in Soviet eye and less subject to interference.
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