Bulgaria
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this day kept alive in the modern Bulgarian culture. The
oldest treasure of worked gold in the world, dating back to
the 5th millennium BC, comes from the site of the Varna
Necropolis.Bulgaria functioned as the hub of Slavic Europe
during much of the Middle Ages, exerting considerable
literary and cultural influence over the Eastern Orthodox
Slavic world by means of the Preslav and Ohrid Literary
Schools. Bulgaria also gave the world the Cyrillic script,
the second most widely used alphabet and sixth writing
system[2] in the world, which originated in these two
schools in the tenth century.Bulgaria's contribution to
humanity continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, with individuals such as John Atanasoff — a
United States citizen of Bulgarian and British descent,
regarded as the father of the digital computer. A number of
noted opera-singers (Nicolai Ghiaurov, Boris Christoff,
Raina Kabaivanska, Ghena Dimitrova, Anna Tomowa-Sintow,
Vesselina Kasarova), pianist Alexis Weissenberg, and
successful artists (Christo, Pascin, Vladimir Dimitrov)
popularized the culture of Bulgaria abroad.