Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Bulgaria

Bulgaria

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 28, 2018 by Ealdgyth - Talk 18:03, 24 October 2018 (UTC)



The Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr. Republika Bǎlgariya), is a country in southeastern Europe. It borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The semi-nomadic Bulgars founded the first Bulgarian state in 681 AD, which was instrumental in the development and spread of the Cyrillic script. The modern Bulgarian state was established following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and obtained full independence in 1908. It transformed into a Soviet-allied people's republic in 1946, but the Fall of Communism paved the way for a transition into a parliamentary democracy in 1990. Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007 and has since achieved very high human development. Bulgaria has an open market economy focused on services. Its urbanised population of seven million mainly resides in the capital Sofia and other large cities like Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas, but faces significant demographic decline.
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 * Main editors: Tourbillon
 * Promoted: 21 October 2018
 * Reasons for nomination: November 1 is an official holiday in Bulgaria, Ден на народните будители (lit. "Popular Awakeners' Day"), celebrating education and science. I was originally aiming for 22 September (Independence Day) as the TFA date, but the FAC procedure got a bit too long - it's my first FA. Any November date would be nice.
 * Support as nominator. - ☣Tourbillon A ? 22:21, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Support by quality of a "fresh" FA, but don't think the date is strongly connected. I propose to run it any day, or wait for 22 Sep next year. (Having seen plans for 1 Nov this year.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)