In antique times the territory occupied with modern Bulgaria, belonged to powerful Macedonia, and its Thracians occupied. After 46 BC all these earths and a part of the Macedonia which has become, in turn, by a part of powerful Roman empire, have been divided by Romans for convenience of handle into three parts — the Lower Moesia, Balkan mountains and Thrace in the south. Appeared here in the middle of VI century d.C. slavic tribes have merged with the sparse Thracian population which has easily perceived their life, traditions and ceremonies. This junction was promoted also by that circumstance that Slavs have been customised rather peacefully in relation to local residents and were engaged çåìëåïàøåñòâîì and cattle breeding in small communities. In 679 Turkic hordes, the so-called Protobulgarians lead by khans and boyars, having left the traditional habitats between Volga and Southern Ural Mountains, have intersected Danube. In 681 Turkic khan Asparuh has derivated the slavic state first in the history — the First Bulgarian kingdom — with capital in Pliska in Moesia. The state has existed till 1018 and was rather extensive on the European scales — in IX century of its boundary were stretched from Byzantium to Macedonia. Thus sparse Protobulgarians were dissolved among slavic tribes, having perceived their language and culture. From 870 Bulgaria professes Christianity, and the Bulgarian Church is independent and has the own patriarch. The Bulgarian kingdom has reached a pica of the power at tsar Simeone (893 927) who has transferred capital in Preslav and has moved apart boundaries of the country to west costs of Adriatic Sea. Even proud and independent Serbs recognised Simeona as the sovereign (besides time acceptance by Serbs of Christianity concerns). The culture and writing prospered. Schools of writing of Preslava and Ohrida were the first in Europe after Hebrew, Roman schools which for a long time have already endured by then the period of the heyday.