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Culture of Bulgaria
Bulgarian culture has deep roots in the traditions of the indigenous Thracian heritage and the Slavic peoples who settled the Balkans in the early Middle Ages. It consolidated during the First Bulgarian Empire with influence from the Byzantine civilisation and Eastern Christianity followed by a cultural and technological exchange with the Ottoman Empire during a long period of political subjugation starting in the Late Medieval period. Material culture predates the Thracians. For example, the oldest known worked gold in the world, dating back to the 5th millennium BCE, was discovered at the Varna Necropolis. Thracian heritage in Bulgaria includes numerous temples, tombs, treasures, and ancient ritual traditions. Some pre-Christian customs, such as Kukeri, Martenitsa, and rites connected with seasonal fertility, remain part of modern Bulgarian culture. Bulgaria functioned as a cultural hub of Slavic Europe during much of the Middle Ages, exerting considerable literary influence over the Eastern Orthodox world through the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools. Bulgaria also gave the world the Cyrillic script, the second most widely used alphabet and sixth most-used writing system in the world, which originated in these two schools in the tenth century. Bulgaria's cultural contribution continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in literature, music, theatre, visual arts, and science. Internationally recognised people with Bulgarian roots include Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti, the pianist Alexis Weissenberg, opera singer Boris Christoff, John Atanasoff, one of the pioneers of the digital computer, and visual artists Christo, Pascin, and Vladimir Dimitrov.
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