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Bulgaria is located at the south-east corner of Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Its inhabitants, the Bulgarians, speak the South Slavic language Bulgarian.
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The Bulgarian language is Slavic but has some features which set it apart from the other Slavic languages. For example, its grammar is closer to English - no cases and complicated verbs, while in most other Slavic languages, it's the other way around. It also has some words which don't appear in any other Slavic language. Macedonian shares some of these characteristics, though to go from there and say that it's the same language may cause [[Internet Backdraft]]. Bulgarian appears as Krakozhian in ''[[The Terminal]]''.
 
Bulgaria does not often appear in Western media, except as an interchangeable [[Commie Land]] location or mysterious homeland of swarthy villains (such as in the first [[James Bond (Literaturenovel)|James Bond]] novel). Traditional Bulgarian singing appears as background music for many movies and TV shows (''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' is a prominent example) - and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWLMZnhUvUo recordings] of ''Izlel e Delio Haidutin'' were included on the golden records carried by the Voyager probes into interstellar space. In Britain Bulgaria remains synonymous [[Parasol of Pain|with poisoned umbrellas]], after a well-publicised incident in [[The Seventies]] when a dissident was knocked off by a Bulgarian agent in London by this method.
 
One of the things Bulgarians are well-known for, at least in Central and Eastern Europe, is that their head gestures for "yes" and "no" are reversed, shaking one's head means "yes" and nodding means "no". This is not entirely accurate, since their "nod" is upward instead of downward and the head shake is not completely horizontal, but slightly wavy. Also, with the last two decades' increase in the exposure to Western media, the traditional Bulgarian gestures are no longer prevalent and the younger generation has largely abandoned them.
 
== the Bulgarian flag ==
[[File:125px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_svgFlag_of_Bulgaria.pngsvg|framethumb]]
 
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