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___MASK14___ is the second - largest city in Bulgaria with a population of 341 , 567 inhabitants , while 544 , 628 live in its urban area . It is an important economic , transport , cultural , and educational center . ___MASK14___ has evidence of habitation since the 6th millennium BC when the first Neolithic settlements were established . It is said to be one of the oldest cities in the world . Ivan Nenov ( Bulgarian :    ) is a Bulgarian painter born in ___MASK15___ ( 1902 - 1997 ) . Husband of Ekaterina Savova - Nenova . He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts . ___MASK15___ is a town in the far west of Bulgaria , and the capital of the ___MASK15___ Province . The town is situated in the southern part of the ___MASK15___ Valley , near the borders of ___MASK34___ and the Republic of Macedonia ; 90 km southwest of ___MASK38___ , 130 km northeast of Skopje and 243 km north of Thessaloniki . The total population counts 44 , 532 people , with a Bulgarian majority and Roma minority . During the Iron Age , a Thracian settlement was located within the town , later known as Roman in the 1st century AD . In the Middle Ages , the town switched hands between the Byzantine Empire , Bulgaria and ___MASK34___ , prior to Ottoman annexation in 1395 . After centuries of Ottoman rule , the town became part of an independent Bulgarian state in 1878 . ___MASK66___ of Bulgarian Artists ( UBA ) is a non - profit association for Bulgarian artists which can trace its routes back to 1893 . It currently has about 2700 members - artists and critics from all generations - drawn from the many fields of the representational arts . The mission of the UBA is to protect the interests of its members and to promote Bulgarian visual culture at ___MASK97___ and abroad . Any artist or critic with proven professional contributions may be admitted for individual membership . The UBA has the largest exhibition complex in Bulgaria . ___MASK82___ ( tr . " Makedonija "), officially the Republic of ___MASK82___ ( Macedonian : , tr . " Republika Makedonija "), is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . It is one of the successor states of the former ___MASK53___ , from which it declared ___MASK7___ in 1991 . It became a member of the United Nations in 1993 , but , as a result of an ongoing dispute with Greece over the use of the name " ___MASK82___ ", was admitted under the provisional description the former Yugoslav Republic of ___MASK82___ ( sometimes unofficially abbreviated as FYROM and FYR ___MASK82___ ), a term that is also used by international organizations such as the European Union , the Council of Europe and NATO . Ekaterina Savova - Nenova (   -  ) ( 1901  1980 ) was a Bulgarian painter , married to Ivan Nenov , and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in ___MASK38___ , Bulgaria . She was born November 13 , 1901 , in ___MASK38___ . She studied with Nikola Marinov at the Academy of Arts in ___MASK38___ , graduated in 1925 , exhibited regularly with the Union of Bulgarian Artists , and had three individual shows in 1943 , 1946 , and 1958 . Her paintings are exhibited in the Philippopolis Art Gallery in Plovdiv and the National Art Gallery in ___MASK38___ . ___MASK65___ ( tr . '), officially the Republic of ___MASK65___ ( tr . '), is a country in southeastern Europe . It is bordered by ___MASK86___ to the north , ___MASK34___ and Macedonia to the west , Greece and Turkey to the south , and the Black ___MASK71___ to the east . With a territory of , ___MASK65___ is Europe ' s 16th - largest country . ___MASK35___ is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia . It is the country ' s political , cultural , economic , and academic center . It was known in the ___MASK88___ period under the name " Scupi ". ___MASK40___ is the second - largest city in ___MASK44___ and the capital of Greek Macedonia , the administrative region of ___MASK79___ Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace . Its nickname is   (" Symprotévousa "), literally " the co - capital ", a reference to its historical status as the  (" Symvasilévousa ") or " co - reigning " city of the Eastern ___MASK88___ ( Byzantine ) Empire , alongside ___MASK92___ . The ___MASK24___ , also referred to as the Eastern ___MASK88___ Empire , was the continuation of the ___MASK88___ Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages , when its capital city was ___MASK92___ ( modern - day Istanbul , which had been founded as Byzantium ). It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western ___MASK88___ Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 . During most of its existence , the empire was the most powerful economic , cultural , and military force in Europe . Both " ___MASK24___ " and " Eastern ___MASK88___ Empire " are historiographical terms created after the end of the realm ; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the " ___MASK88___ Empire " ( tr . ), or " Romania ", and to themselves as " Romans ". ___MASK34___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK34___ , is a sovereign state situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe , covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans . Relative to its small territory , it is a diverse country distinguished by a " transitional " character , situated along cultural , geographic , climatic and other boundaries . ___MASK34___ is landlocked and borders Hungary to the north ; Romania and Bulgaria to the east ; Macedonia to the south ; and ___MASK67___ , Bosnia - Herzegovina , and Montenegro to the southwest ; it also claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo . ___MASK34___ numbers around 7 million residents , and its capital , Belgrade , ranks among the largest cities in Southeast Europe . ___MASK38___ ( or or ;) (" Sofiya ",) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria . The city has a population of 1 . 26 million , while 1 . 68 million people live in its metropolitan area . The city is located at the foot of Vitosha Mountain in the western part of the country , within less than drive from the Serbian border . Its location in the centre of the Balkan peninsula means that it is the midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea , whereas the Aegean Sea is the closest to it . ___MASK15___ Province ( trl " Oblast ___MASK15___ ") is a province in southwestern Bulgaria , extending over an area of 3084 . 3 km² ( constituting 2 . 7 % of the total territory of the Republic of Bulgaria ), and with a population of 163 , 889 . It borders on the provinces of ___MASK38___ , Pernik , and Blagoevgrad ; to the west , its limits coincide with the state borders between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia , and between Bulgaria and the Republic of Serbia . The administrative center of the Province is ___MASK15___ .