233, 235,
236, 240;
Chemical Industry and Power Generation, 204;
Culture, 106, 195;
Education, 106;
Finance, viii, 89, 204, 213, 219, 221;
Foreign Affairs, 173-174;
Foreign Trade, viii, 173-175, 204, 219, 221;
Information and Communications, 187;
Interior, 32, 35, 154;
Internal Affairs, ix, 7, 148, 167, 269, 271, 273, 284;
Justice, viii, 7, 32, 283-284, 285;
National Defense, ix, 7, 8, 167, 193, 273, 275, 287, 288, 289-290, 294;
National Education, 106-107, 116, 167, 198, 208, 263;
Public Education, 96;
Public Health, 80;
Supply and State Reserves, 251-252;
Transport, 63

Montenegro: 22, 28

motor vehicles: 59

Murad I: 15

Murkvichka, Ivan: 132

music: 129-130

National Assembly. (_See also_ State Council): vii, 4, 137, 138, 142,
144, 147;
elections, 139, 147, 149, 150;
establishment, 139;
functions, 4, 5, 32, 139-140, 145, 147, 148, 149, 173, 213-214;
presidium, 139, 141, 143

National Liberation Army: 31

National School of Choreography: 113

national security (_see also_ armed forces; border troops; civil
defense; police): ix, 154, 269-286;
organization, 270;
police state period, 159, 270-271;
state security police, 7, 269, 270

nationalism: 189; historic, 16

naval base (Varna): 54

navy: ix, 7, 287, 289, 291, 295, 298, 299

Nedkova, Maria: 133

Nicephorus: 11

North Atlantic Treaty Organization: 290

opera: 123, 129-130

_Otechestven Front_: 191, 192-193

Ottoman Turks (_see also_ Turkish rule): 15-16

Panagyurishte: 259

_Partisan Song_: 132

Pavlov, Todor: 161, 187

Pavlovich, Nikola: 132

Peasant Union Party: 32

peasants (_see also_ Bulgarian Agrarian Union): 6, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74;
BKP membership, 159;
populism movement, 25;
postliberation period, 21;
preferential treatment for education, 6, 73, 74, 76;
Turkish rule, 16-17, 131

Pelin, Elin: 127

penal institutions: 7, 269, 284-286

pensions: 89, 90

Pernik coalfields: 253, 254

Peter, rebellion against Byzantine Empire: 13

Petkov, Nikolai: 32

Petrov, Ilia: 132

Philip of Macedon: 10, 54

Pioneers (Young Septembrists): 167-168

Pirdop: 259

Pirin range: 40, 42, 46, 57, 227

Pleven oil refinery: 254-255

Pliska: 11

Plovdiv: 45, 54, 226, 250, 255, 259;
libraries, 199;
railroads, 59, 60;
universities, 115

Poland: 172, 175

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