BULGARIA, BULGARIANS AND THEIR HISTORY

moderate climate and beautiful nature. The country is

the successor of millennia-old civilizations. The earliest t

races of protohumans in Europe (from 1.6-1.4 million

years before), including the first evidence of reasonable

human activities in the world have been found in its

lands! The 7th-5th millennia BC were the time of the

'Neolithic revolution', while the Aeneolithic-Chalcolithic

Age gave birth to the 'civilization of the oldest gold in

the world'. The ancient Thracians were part of the

'historical' epochs and their later contacts with the

Hellenic civilization produced the sacred images of