Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daya daga cikin al'ummomin farko a ƙasashen Bulgaria na zamani shine al'adun Karanovo na Neolithic, wanda ya samo asali daga 6,500 BC. A cikin karni na 6 zuwa na 3 BC yankin ya kasance filin yaƙi ga tsoffin Thracians, Farisa, Celts da Macedonians; kwanciyar hankali ya zo lokacin da Daular Rome ta ci yankin a AD 45. Bayan da daular Roma ta rabu, ƙabilu suka ci gaba da mamaye yankin. Kusan ƙarni na 6, waɗannan yankuna sun zauna da Slavs na farko. Bulgars, mutanen da ba su da ƙaura, sun mamaye Balkan a ƙarshen ƙarni na 7 kuma sun kafa Daular Bulgaria ta Farko a AD 681. Ya mamaye yawancin Balkans kuma ya rinjayi al'adun Slavic ta hanyar haɓaka rubutun Cyrillic. Daular Bulgaria ta Farko ta kasance har zuwa farkon ƙarni na 11, lokacin da sarkin Byzantine Basil II ya ci ta kuma ya rushe ta. Nasarar tawayen Bulgaria
a cikin 1185 ya kafa Daular Bulgaria ta Biyu, wacce ta kai kololuwarta a karkashin Ivan Asen II (1218<unk>1241). Bayan yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa da kuma rikice-rikice na mulkin mallaka, daular ta rushe a shekara ta 1396 kuma ta faɗa ƙarƙashin mulkin Ottoman na kusan ƙarni biyar.