BULGARIA, BULGARIANS AND THEIR HISTORY

The Thracian Spartacus remained the most outstanding

tombs, temples are all evidence to the Thracian culture.

In the 1st century BC the Thracians fell under the rule of

Rome, and of its successor Byzantium. Christianity was

introduced in the Bulgarian lands as early as the 1st

century AD, and the Council of Serdica (present-day

Sofia) in 343 AD played an important role in the history

of the church.