This country won the Battle of Pliska against Nikephoros I, though it later lost the Battle of Kleidion. This country reached its largest size under Simeon the Great, during whose rule it bordered three seas. During the "Midlothian Campaign", William Gladstone accused Benjamin Disraeli of failing to stop massacres in this country that were committed by the Ottoman Empire, and the Treaty of San Stefano controversially created a "large" version of this country. During World War Two, Tsar Boris III allied this country with Nazi Germany. It was brutally invaded by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, whose nickname refers to his habit of slaying people from this country, whose cities include Plovdiv and Varna. Bordered to the north by Romania and to the south by Greece, for ten points, name this Eu
This country won the Battle of Pliska against Nikephoros I, though it later lost the Battle of Kleidion. This country reached its largest size under Simeon the Great, during whose rule it bordered three seas. During the "Midlothian Campaign", William Gladstone accused Benjamin Disraeli of failing to stop massacres in this country that were committed by the Ottoman Empire, and the Treaty of San Stefano controversially created a "large" version of this country. During World War Two, Tsar Boris III allied this country with Nazi Germany. It was brutally invaded by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, whose nickname refers to his habit of slaying people from this country, whose cities include Plovdiv and Varna. Bordered to the north by Romania and to the south by Greece, for ten points, name this European country with capital at Sofia.
This country won the Battle of Pliska against Nikephoros I, though it later lost the Battle of Kleidion.
Bulgaria