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    BULGARIA: Medal for the 1300th Anniversary of Bulgaria


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    Previously mentioned in

    http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3196&st=14

    Thanks to a good Forum Friend, I now have a documented specimen, awarded (I would guess) to an Algerian (being in French and guessing who would be friendly enough with Bulgaria in 1981 to get one, though research looms).

    The medal, with quirky mounting.

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    Nope. Not Algerian, Tunisian. Never guess when jetlagged:

    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Sfar

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Sfar

    He would have been Minister of Defence in 1981.

    Wow !

    :cheers:

    I love seeing Bulgarian awards given to foreign countries !

    They are far between and when you think of the numbers awarded they are rare-rare ;)

    Best regards from Sweden

    Christer

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    I suspect, following the Soviet pattern, such commemorative medals would have been worn, by civilians and military types alike.

    An award to a foreign friend -- like this one -- wasn't on the usual pentagonal suspension, though. Interesting.

    Compare:

    http://www.medals.org.uk/bulgaria/peoples-...garia-pr037.htm

    http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2740

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