Sofia Land

The siege of Serdica (Bulgarian: Обсадата на Сердика) took place in the spring of 809 at modern Sofia, Bulgaria. As a result, the city was annexed to the Bulgarian State and remained so until the fall of the First Bulgarian Empire.

The National High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences "Academician Lyubomir Chakalov" (in Bulgarian: Национална природо-математическа гимназия "Академик Любомир Чакалов") is a high school (European secondary school) in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is located in Lozenets municipality. The school is named after the Bulgarian mathematician Lyubomir Chakalov. More than 1000 students are studying in the school. They are divided into seven majors: Mathematics and Computer science (52 students, 2 classes with German/English language studying) Physics (26 students, 1 class with English) Chemistry (52 students, 2 classes with German/English language) Chemistry and Biology (26 students, 1 class with English) Biology (26 students, 1 class with English) Earth Science (26 students, 1 class with English) Computer science (26 students, 1 class with English)

Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital is the largest medical facility in Bulgaria, built and developed with private investments. It was opened in 2006 as part of a Japanese medical group, owned by the physician and entrepreneur Dr. Torao Tokuda. Since 2016 Tokuda Hospital is part of the largest hospital group in Bulgaria – Acibadem City Clinic. The hospital is located in Sofia, in the southern part of Lozenets District, at 27,000 square meters (52,000 square meters floor area). It has 575 beds in 37 departments and clinics, 3 medical-diagnostic laboratories, 22 operating rooms, hospice, emergency department, clinical research center. The structure of the hospital is multi-profile and offers comprehensive health care in almost all medical specialties. The largest outpatient (diagnostic and consulting) center in Bulgaria – Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Medical Center is also part of the hospital space. Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital employs 1300 people, more than 350 of which are physicians and more than 600 are other medical professionals. An average of 280,000 patients are served each year, over 900 children are born and nearly 13,000 operations are performed. The hospital is accredited under the international standard for quality and safety in healthcare – JCI (Joint Commission International). Since July 2013, Tokuda Hospital has been recognized as a Scientific Organization of the Ministry of Education and Science having permission for conducting doctoral programs (PhD) and procedures for taking up academic positions. Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital has been honored with many national and international awards.The hospital is part of the largest medical care group in Bulgaria – Acibadem City Clinic, including 4 hospitals, 5 outpatient centers, more than 2500 medical specialists, 700 of which physicians and 750 beds. Acibadem City Clinic is part of Acibadem Healthcare Holding – one of the largest medical structures in Turkey. Globally, it is part of the Malaysia-based public company IHH Healthcare Berhad – a provider of healthcare services. IHH operates in 10 countries (including Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, India, China, UAE, etc.), it has 52 hospitals and more than 30,000 employees.

The Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, formerly the "Faculty of Chemistry", is a college of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria. It was renamed by a decision of the National Assembly of Bulgaria on February 24, 2012.

Lozenets (Bulgarian: Лозенец [ˈɫɔzɛnɛt͡s]), sometimes transliterated as Lozenetz, is a district and residential area located in the southern parts of Sofia, Bulgaria. As of 2012 it has 49,200 inhabitants.

The Sofia Seminary of St John of Rila (Bulgarian: Софийска духовна семинария „Св. Йоан Рилски“, Sofiyska duhovna seminariya „Sv. Yoan Rilski“), located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is the main seminary of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and an ecclesiastical institution of high education. Founded in 1876 as the Samokov Theological School in the Sts. Peter and Paul Monastery in Lyaskovets, it later moved to the capital of Bulgaria as the city council donated a lot for the construction of a separate seminary building. The Sofia Seminary's construction began in 1902, when Knyaz Ferdinand of Bulgaria laid the foundation stone together with the chairman of the Holy Synod, Metropolitan Simeon of Varna and Veliki Preslav, in the presence of ministers and other influential figures. The complex, designed by Austro-Hungarian architect Friedrich Grünanger, who united Eclecticism with elements of traditional Byzantine architecture, was completed towards the end of 1902 and inaugurated on 20 January 1903. The Seminary Church of St John of Rila, a one-naved cross-domed basilica, was opened on 26 October 1904, St Demetrius' Day. During the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the First World War (1914-1918) the seminary complex was used as a wartime hospital, and the Agrarianist rule of 1920-1923 opened an agricultural faculty inside. The events after the Second World War saw the forcible moving of the seminary to Cherepish and the use of the seminary complex in Sofia in turn as a Soviet Army headquarters (1944-1946), by the Union of the Soviet-Bulgarian Friendship (1946-1950) and a Palace of Pioneers (1951-1990). In the spring of 1990 the buildings of the Sofia Seminary were given back to the Holy Synod and education was restored.

Sofia Zoo in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, was founded by royal decree on 1 May 1888, and is the oldest and largest zoological garden in southeastern Europe. It covers 36 hectares (89 acres) and, in March 2006, housed 4,850 animals representing 840 species.

James Bourchier Metro Station (Bulgarian: Метростанция "Джеймс Баучер") is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria, named after James David Bourchier. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. The initial project name of the Metro Station was Lozenets named after the neighbourhood Lozenets. A park-and-ride underground facility with 650 parking lots was built along with the construction of the James Bourchier Station.

Hotel Marinela Sofia is a 5-star hotel located in Lozenets, near downtown Sofia, Bulgaria. It was one of the most luxurious hotels in the capital of Bulgaria. With 442 guest rooms, 10 conference rooms, 4 restaurants, 2 bars and the chalga bar - the former unique and only Japanese garden in the Balkans.The hotel was built as the Vitosha New Otani by the Japanese New Otani Hotels chain between 1974 and 1979 to the design of leading Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa (1934–2007) in the upper-class neighbourhood Lozenets. In his design, Kurokawa implemented architectural details inspired by the Bulgarian National Revival style of Koprivshtitsa and Plovdiv. The 21-storey hotel was built by Bulgarian company Tehnoeksportstroy and the Japanese Mitsubishi. Its Japanese garden was a large-scale copy of the one at the original Hotel New Otani Tokyo and featured a Japanese-style house and lake.

Park Center Sofia, formerly City Center Sofia, is a shopping mall located in Sofia, Bulgaria, opened in the spring of 2006. It is south of the National Palace of Culture in the municipality of Triaditsa at the intersection of the Boulevards "Cherni vrah" and "Arsenalski", next to European Union Metro Station and diagonally opposed to the Hemus Hotel. The mall has six stories (including two underground) and a total built-up area of 44,000 m2 (470,000 sq ft) (23,000 m2 (250,000 sq ft) for the commercial area). There are more than 100 stores, several cafés, a pharmacy, beauty parlors, bank offices and parking lots. There are also two hypermarkets presented in the mall: Technomarket and Picadilly. The cinema complex Cine Grand has six halls with a total capacity of 1,340 seats.

European Union Metro Station (Bulgarian: Метростанция „Европейски съюз“; Metrostantsiya „Evropeyski sayuz“) is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. Barroso expressed his delight that the metro station was named after the European Union.

The Borisova Gradina TV Tower, or the Old TV Tower, is a 106-metre-tall (348 ft) TV tower (including the aerial) in the garden Borisova gradina in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is known as the tower used for the first Bulgarian National Television broadcasts in 1959.