Sobranyen.
/səˈbrɑːn(ɪ)jeɪ/ The parliament or national assembly of Bulgaria.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in Bulgaria
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1894 E. Dicey Peasant State xv. 142 There are..three Estates in Bulgaria: the Crown, the Ministers, and the Sobranje.
1896 W. Miller Balkans ii. v. 217 The Parliament, or ordinary Sobranje, was to consist of a single chamber, elected by manhood suffrage.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 448/2 The national representation is embodied in the Sobranye, or ordinary assembly (Bulgarian, Sŭbranï e, the Russian form Sobranye being usually employed by foreign writers), and the Grand Sobranye, which is convoked in extraordinary circumstances.
1915 N. Forbes Balkans, Bulgaria 60 Stambulóv..in 1884 became president of the Sóbraniye (Parliament).
1920 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 786 The Sobranye was summoned on the eve of war with Turkey.
1923 G. Buchanan My Mission to Russia I. ii. 22 In spite, however, of his declaring the elections invalid, the Grand Sobranje met and occupied itself with the difficult task of finding a prince willing to accept the thorny crown which Prince Alexander had laid down.
1957 Times 21 Dec. 5/4 Some 4,500,000 to five million Bulgarians will go through the motions of ‘electing’ a new Sobranye.
1974 J. Rothschild East Central Europe between Two World Wars vii. 334 The Peasantists won 85 seats in the Sŭbranie, the unicameral national legislature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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