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3,270 miles of State telegraph lines with 6,740 miles of wive, the number of
messages was 2,142,640. There were, in 1899, 1,228 miles of State telephone
lines. There were 2,008 post and telegraph offices, and the number of
letters, newspapers, &c, carried was 23,743,453. Receipts from posts and
telegraphs (1899), 2,910,973 leva; expenditure, 3,106,492 leva.
Money and Credit.
There is a National Bank of Bulgaria, with headquarters at Sofia and
branches at Philippopolis, Rustchuk, Varna, Burgas and Tirnovo ; its
capital is 10,000,000 leva, provided by the State with a reserve fund of
3,333,333, and it has authority to issue both gold notes and silver notes. The
latter were issued for the first time in December, 1899. By an agreemene
with the banks with which the Government concluded a loan in 1900, the
Bauk is bound to restrict its note issue to 13,000,000 leva, of which not
more than 4,000,000 are to be payable in gold, against a reserve of
4,500,000 leva, of which 1,500,000 in gold. The Imperial Ottoman Bank
has withdrawn its business from Bulgaria. There are 85 agricultural banks for
making advances on personal security, with an aggregate capital of 30,657,360
leva, and power to borrow from the National Bank. There are a few
Bulgarian (December 31, 1898) gold coins, of the value of 100, 40, 20, and 10
leva (francs), but the gold circulation is supplied by foreign 10 and 20 franc
pieces. There are silver coins of J lev, and 1 lev, 2, and 5 leva (francs) ;
nickel coins of 2^, 5, 10, and 20 stotinki (centimes) ; copper coins of 2, 5 and
10 stotinki (centimes); the notes of the National Bank circulate at par.
British Agent and Gonsul-General at Sofia.—F. E. H. Elliot.
There are Vice-Consuls at Sofia, Philippopolis, Rustchuk and Varna, and
an acting Consular Agent at Burgas.
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Handbook of the Armies of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Rumania, and Servia. By
Oapt. W. E. Fairhohne and Capt. Count Gleichen. London, 1895.
Commerce de la Prineipaute de Bulgarie avec les Pays etrangers. Annual. Soiia.
Mouvement de la Population de la Prineipaute de Bulgarie. Annual. Sofia.
Statistique des Ecoles dans la Prineipaute de Bulgarie. Annual. Sofia.
Bulgarien und der bulgarische Flirstenhof. Von eiuein Diplomaten. Berlin, 1896.
Bath (Marquis of), Observations on Bulgarian Affairs. 8. London, 18S0.
Beaman(A. H.), M. Stambuloff. [In series of'Public Men of to-day.] London, 1895.—
Twenty Years in the Near East. London, 1898.
Cholet (Count A. P. de), Etude sur la Guerre bulgaro-serbe. Paris, 1891.
£tceji(E.), The Peasant State: An Account of Bulgaria in 1894. S. London, 1894.
Drandar (A. G.), Les Evenements politiques en Bulgarie depuis 1876 jusqu' a nos jours.
Paris 1896
Oolowiile (A. P.), Fiirst Alexander von Bulgarien, 1879-1886. Wien, 1896.
Huhn (Major A. von), The Struggle of the Balkans for National Independence under
Prince Alexander. London, 1886.
Ivantehoff (T.), Article "Bulgarie" in Dictiounaire duCommerce, de l'Industrie,et de
la Banque. Paris, 1898.
Jirecek (C), Das Fiirstenthum Bulgarien. Wien, 1891.
Kanitz (F.), Donau-Bulgarien und der Balkan, 1860-75. 3 vols. 4. Leipzig, 1875-79.
Lamouche (L.), La Bulgarie dans le passe et le present. Paris, 1892.
Ltger (L.), La Save, le Danube, et le Balkan. Paris, 1884.
Miller (W.), The Balkans. In ''Story of the Nations " series. 8. London, 1896.—Travels
and Politics in the Near East. London, 1898.
Minchin (J. G. C), The Growth of Freedom in the Balkan Peninsula. 8. London, 1886.
Regentpuriky (C), Die Kampfe bei Slivnitza, 1885. Wien, 1895.
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in Bulgaria. 8. London, 1877.
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