There was a settlement by the river dating back to the Paleolithic period.

u rite

Yes, I'm.

About 8000 years old

I told you we were ancient.

if records don't lie

Far ancient than the shop village people.

Come here and I will show you the site of the digs.

There are still some old ceramical furnaces near the center.

The entire city knows about it.

Greece rivals you in historical sense tho

This is why we call the shops village people.

But still, impressive(?)

Back in the days we were basically one with the Greek.

I am not a really big fan of old = good, but it's still something

So, Greek culture is strong here too.

Yeah, the Thracians

I told you-intersection between the East and the South.

This is what we call ourselves, too.

Thrace-south of Bulgaria.

There is even a stadium named Spartacus here.

We know our history.

Poor Macedonians tho

Literally had to stop being Macedonians

We call them West Bulgaria.

North-Macedonia just sounds so

Meh

I keep imagining Bulgarians as Russian lites

We ain't Thracians either now, but I can assure you the traces of their civilization haven't completely disappeared.

Not that I want to, I just have never seen anything of Bulgaria

ever

That's the most stupid part-everyone thinks of us as some south Russian province when in fact we are a separate people, with a separate history.

Cause nowadays we are small country.

You had been since the 1200s

Some people know of our Medieval empires but not much about modern society.

Nope, since the 600s in Europe.

In Asia-since 5000 years ago.

You still had your empire when we arrived

In around 900

We are ancient as fuck and nobody pays attention to the fact.

Yeah, I know before the times of your kings it was you who wanted permission from our tzars to stay in Europe.