Side by side
Bulgaria and Serbia compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 42
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- 9
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- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- Sep 1885
Unification with Eastern Rumelia
A bloodless revolution united the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia with the Principality of Bulgaria; Bulgaria secured the union by defeating Serbia in the ensuing war, recovering part of the San Stefano territory.
Formation · from the Bulgaria chronicle · San Stefano, Berlin and the Making of Modern Bulgaria · Bulgaria: Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin, Bulgaria: Ottoman rule, National Revival and the end of the 19th century
- 1912
First Balkan War
Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro of the Balkan League drove the Ottoman Empire almost entirely out of Europe, with Bulgarian armies bearing the heaviest fighting in Thrace.
War & Rupture · from the Bulgaria chronicle · The Balkan Wars, the World Wars and the Saving of the Jews · Balkan Wars
- Jun–Aug 1913
Second Balkan War and the loss of Macedonia
Bulgaria attacked its former allies over the division of Macedonia and was crushed by Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Ottomans; the Treaty of Bucharest left most of Macedonia to its rivals and Southern Dobruja to Romania.
War & Rupture · from the Bulgaria chronicle · The Balkan Wars, the World Wars and the Saving of the Jews · Second Balkan War, Balkan Wars