Made in Bulgaria -- Francesco Biasia, Karl Lagerfeld, Lacoste and Perry Ellis?

And, it's Lalo Orna artisan jewelry, some recognizable designer brands, and some unique finds!

It is amazing the calibre of designers who have their goods produced in Bulgaria. You may have already heard about Lalo Orna artisan jewelry, but did you realize that such designers as Karl Lagerfeld and Perry Ellis would have their designs made in Bulgaria?

I've been researching items made in Bulgaria for a few years and find it interesting that even Tommy Hilfiger has had items made in Bulgaria. In this lens, you may be surprised at who else is on this list!

Designer brands that are "made in Bulgaria"

Doing a search of "made in Bulgaria" on eBay resulted in some 209 items on eBay auctions and an additional 741 items in eBay stores! When you consider that is approximately 1,000 items, it's a pretty good bet you'll find something to interest you that was "made in Bulgaria!"

Some of the brands include Adrienne Vittadini, Alfani, Amanda Smith, Andrew Marc, Bakers, Banana Republic, Bogner, Borsalino, Brandini, Burberry, Dennis Basso, Diadora, Florence Tricot, Francesco Biasia, Geronimo, Giorgio Saint' Angelo, H&M, International Concepts, Hugo Boss, Josef Seibel, Joseph & Feiss, Karl Lagerfeld, Lacoste, Lalo Orna, London Fog, Marc New York, Mason's, Max Mara, Matchbox, Milano Uomo, Millenium Collection, Miss Sixty, Moncler, Osh Kosh, Paris Saint Germain, Perry Ellis, Pierre Cardin, Prada Sport, Silver Cloud, Sonia Rykiel, T.C. Petites, Tommy Hilfiger, Triba Denim, Tribal of Bulgaria, Tribella, and White Mountain.

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A bit of info on Bulgaria

CIA - The World Factbook

I am a great fan of Wikipedia and also the The World Factbook! You can find great information there.

Bulgaria is in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey.
It's slightly larger than Tennessee with a total area of 110,910 sq km; which is mostly land: 110,550 sq km; and a little water: 360 sq km.
The climate is temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers.
The terrain is mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast.
Natural resources include bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land.
Natural hazards are earthquakes and landslides!
The current environmental issues are air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes.
Population estimated in July 2007: 7,322,858.
According to the 2001 census, the ethnic groups include Bulgarian 83.9%, Turk 9.4%, Roma 4.7%, other 2% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian).
The capital is Sofia.
Independence: 3 March 1878 (as an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire); 22 September 1908 (complete independence from the Ottoman Empire).
Constitution was adopted 12 July 1991.
Industries: electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco; machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum, nuclear fuel.
Export commodities: clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels.

Bulgaria FAQs

The state of Bulgaria (, transliterated: , pronounced ), international transliteration B?lgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, , pronounced ) forms part of the Balkans in south-eastern Europe. It borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the River Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.

Bulgaria comprises the classical regions of Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia. Old European culture within the territory of present-day Bulgaria started to produce golden artifacts by the fifth millennium BC.

The Thracian tomb in Kazanluk

The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name, language and alphabet) of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/681 1018), which at times covered most of the Balkans and spread its alphabet, literature and culture among the Slavic and other peoples of Eastern Europe. Centuries later, with the decline of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 1396/1422), the country came under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 led to the re-establishment of a Bulgarian state as a constitutional monarchy in 1878, with the Treaty of San Stefano marking the birth of the Third Bulgarian State. After World War II, in 1945 Bulgaria became a communist state and part of the Eastern Bloc, lead by Todor Jivkov (from 1956 to 1989), who presided for 33 years. In 1990, after the Revolutions of 1989, the Communist party gave up its monopoly on power and Bulgaria transitioned to democracy and free-market capitalism.

Currently Bulgaria functions as a parliamentary democracy under a unitary constitutional republic. A member of the European Union since 2007 and of NATO since 2004, it has a population of approximately 7.6 million.

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History of Bulgaria

The History of Bulgaria as a separate country began in 632 AD with the establishment of Old Great Bulgaria, which stretched from east of the Sea of Azov to the shores of the Danube River. While Old Great Bulgaria was disintegrating due to Khazar expansion from the east, the Bulgar leader Asparuh crossed south of the Danube, into the territory of present-day Bulgaria, and defeated the armies of the Byzantine Empire. In 680/681, the East Roman Emperor was forced to sign a peace treaty recognizing the First Bulgarian Empire as an independent state situated on the conquered Byzantine lands with their local Slavic populations.

A country in the middle of the ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria has seen many twists and turns in its long history and has been a prospering empire stretching to the coastlines of the Black, Aegean and Adriatic Seas. The First and Second Bulgarian Empires served as cultural centres of Slavic Europe, but the land was also dominated by foreign states twice in its history, once by the Byzantine Empire (1018 - 1185) and once by the Ottoman Empire (1422 - 1878).

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