EXPLORING THE BEST OF SOFIA, BULGARIA 🇧🇬 | What to See in Sofia | Travel Guide

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[@boyanmetodiev6878]

3:20 it's not just the alphabet. Great Russia speaks Bulgarian dialect. The Church Slavonic language is Bulgarian, all their old books are Bulgarian

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Oh wow, I didn’t know that. That’s very interesting. Thanks for the info and for watching our video, we hope you enjoyed it.

[@sstarf3to7gives0]

Boki, it's all serbian and you know it 😊

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[@helenrabinowitz2398]

Beautiful - pronounced SO' fya!

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@@helenrabinowitz2398 Thanks for watching and helping with the language!

[@RumyankaHristova-b8t]

Добър гид . Красива столица .

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Yes, absolutely. A beautiful city. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment.

[@SlowTravelWithUs]

Sofia looks wonderful! Loving the hot springs, I didn't know this! We're definitely looking forward to visiting Sofia.

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@@SlowTravelWithUs Sofia is really nice, one of those unexpected gems. You will really enjoy it. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@BrendaNeal-qg9iw]

💖💖💖👍🏼💖💖💖💖🙆‍♀️ I Love all you're different adventures Great job you two ❤️ ❤ Bring me some that water Lol 😂 i would love to try it 💖💖💖

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@@BrendaNeal-qg9iw It will cure what ails you. 😂 Thanks for watching!

[@helenrabinowitz2398]

Blagodar'ia! (Thank you)

[@vladimirgeorgiev7193]

A very nice video, just a couple of remarks. Alexander Nevski, after whom the biggest church in Bulgaria is named, is a Russian warrior saint but he lived in the Middle Ages (I believe in the 13th century), so not to be confused with the late 19th century Russian-Turkish Liberation War of 1977-1878. As for the patriarch, or the leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the reason there are so many flowers and wreaths at that church (its name is Sveta Nedelya, or Holy Sunday) is that he was buried there after his recent passing about a month ago. As for the hierarchy in the Orthodox church, it is different from the Catholic Church where you have the Pope as the head of the whole church worldwide. In eastern Orthodoxy, each national Orthodox church has its head of church, called Patriarch, but he is only the head of the respective national church. For example, there is a Bulgarian patriarch, a Greek Patriarch, a Serb, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, etc., so no unifying figure like the Pope in Catholicism. There is the so-called Ecumenical Patriarch who resides in Istanbul, a historical remainder of the once mighty Byzantine patriarch, but the current one (he is Greek though a Turkish citizen) is nothing like the Byzantine patriarch in the past. Anyway, enough of this history/religion stuff, I am glad you enjoyed our capital Sofia :)

[@travelingexpats]

Great information, thank you so much for watching and sharing your knowledge with us. Sofia is a beautiful city and Bulgaria is a beautiful country, we can’t wait to return.

[@margaretsimmons7143]

How amazing to find those Roman ruins while building the subway! I would love to go there and experience it.

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It’s pretty awesome. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@myrellasamuels3513]

I’m here now and it really is crazy! Just…you know…walking on the Roman road 😮 next to a metro

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@@myrellasamuels3513 Pretty amazing right? Enjoy your time there, it’s a great city.

[@mariapopova5027]

Thank you for visiting and filming my hometown. Great job!

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Thanks for watching and leaving your comment. You have a beautiful home town!

[@janetazafirova]

Thanks for filming my hometown. It's not that big, but it's beautiful and has a long history. As they say the city grows but doesn't get old. Very nice video!

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Thank you for watching and sharing your kind comments. You have a beautiful hometown and we can’t wait to visit again.

[@learningforthelonghaul]

Fantastic video of my hometown. Thank you for visiting and enjoying Sofia! I hope you have a chance to return.

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Thanks for watching and commenting. We love Sofia and the country of Bulgaria. We hope to return soon.

[@krassir832]

Amazing video, thank you for sharing ❤

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Thanks for watching. We’re happy you enjoyed it. Sofia is a great city.

[@billk9023]

Nice video tour of Sofia! Just curious … what brand is your vest? Thanks!

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@@billk9023 Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. The vest is from H & M. I’ve had it for a few years and I really like it.

[@kitkat9241]

This is wonderful Lee! I can’t wait for the culinary tour!

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[@stef4i3]

In the original version of the Cyrillic alphabet, composed by St. Kliment Ohridski, there are 44 letters for the 44 sounds, in contrast to the current Bulgarian alphabet with 30 letters. That is, we do not write like the Russians, but they write like us. The reverse is insulting.

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[@sstarf3to7gives0]

Stefi, it's all serbian and you know it 😊

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[@reganridling5964]

cool!

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[@vladovlado9614]

You did great job! Thank you for the video!

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[@babiyarnazarismaily6207]

The eastern otrodox church have a head and it is the so called universe or universal patriarch and he resides in istanbul or constantinopol(the present one name is bartolomeus,or bartolomey),but all nation have their own patriarchs and are with independent church or with autonomous church,and the most important ortodox churches are the greek,the bulgarian,the serbian and the russian- in this order by importance ,cause greece have 17 monasteries in aton ,bulgaria,serbia and russia have one each and this shows wich are the most important churches and the bulgarians addopted christianity in 886 ,serbia may be century later and russia about that time

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Great information about the Orthodox Church. Thanks for watching and sharing your knowledge!

[@bratcheda1]

Unfortunately, there are so many uncorrect statements in this video that its educational value is pretty low. I appreciate your effort, but please make a bit more research next time.

[@travelingexpats]

@@bratcheda1 Really? We did quite a bit of research, I promise we weren’t just making things up. I suppose different sources have different versions of what is true. Anyway, we love Sofia and Bulgaria and we’ll be back, hopefully soon and maybe then we’ll hear your side of the story. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

[@tonipetrov7663]

Dude, Alexander Nevski die 200 years before first Ottoman ever step in Europa. I see you are American and you dont learn/know history, but before you talk nonsences check your informacion first!

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[@babiyarnazarismaily6207]

Alexander nevski is a russian ruler a tzar that defeated the teutonic order many centuries ago on an ice lake,where they fell into the water because the ice didnt held the weight of the armored horses and horseman,but the church is build to conmemorate the 200 000 russian soldiers that died liberating bulgaria from ottoman empire.....the title of tzar actually originates from 900s a.d. Bulgaria and simeon the great is our first tzar,while russia adopted the title in the 16th century.....tzar came from the caesar and means emperor in slavic language

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Alexander Nevski was a very important man! Thanks for watching and sharing your knowledge with us.

[@rumendonchev-ek9hk]

How many times you have to visit Sofia until: 1. Pronounce its name correctly? 2. Learnthe and talk the most important and interesting facts about Nevski? Realise that general Nevski wrote the music to the ballet "Swan Lake, and Sofia was liberated by Engelbert Humperding and Mighty Pyton. With all of the numerous false statements you can impres only the olygophrenic viewers that have you as the only source for info. Educate yourself before shooting stupidities. 1 Pronounce

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[@jeffright6627]

And both Iceland and Bulgaria another comon think is that they don't have Uber...

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