Sofia (capital)

Sofia is a fanmade character for the series Hetalia: Axis Powers created by Himaruya Hidekaz. Her human name is Sofia Mihailova.

Appearance
Sofia is a female character that presents the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia (also known as Serdika). She has brown, mid-back length hair with curls in the end. She used to put it in a high pony tail. She has a light brown eyes. She wear a light green uniform with short sleeves. She has a white shirt (again with short sleeves) underneath it with black tie. When it comes to casual clothes she wears denim shorts, a grey tank top with black jacket and black combat boots. She loves wearing the bulgarian traditional costume, but she does it rarely (only on festivals).She has lion tatto on her right shoulder.When she was little she used to have short hair and often the other nations mistaked her for a boy.

Personality and Interests
She's stubborn, proud,indipendent,impatient and a tomboy. Also sassy and a dare devil.She hate when someone's being bossy. You can get on her nerves easily. She's kind to most of the people (exept if you're Turkey). She likes to gossip with her sisters (Macedonia and Albania). She can also be cocky. She doesn't care of  other people's opinions on her. She loves spending time with her family and friends. She also loves sleeping. She hates when people insult her friends or family. When it comes to love and relationships she acts more like a tsundere. She has a kind heart, but due to her many fights and the feeling of betrayal she trusts only her brothers and sisters.

She likes to play football and play pranks on the people she doesn't like. She likes singing, but only her brothers know about this. She's too shy and afraid to sing infront of people.

She really hates two faced people, bullies, drama, mice. She's not afraid from bears, wolfs, any wild animals, but she's terrified by mice and rats. When she was little she wanted to take some food from the cupboart, but when she opened it, a group of mice and rats showed up from there and started running everywhere. She was so shocked that she screamed so loud that the whole city heard her.

Family and friends
Bulgaria and Plovdiv are her brothers (Plovdiv is actually her twin brother). Macedonia and Albania are her sisters. She perceives most of the slavic nations as her relatives.

Vitez is her pet. He is a karakachan dog. Her brother, Plovdiv, has a karakachan dog too - Sonia. Sofia really loves Vitez. They are inseparable.

Her friends are Spain, Romano, England, Hungary, Belgium, Belarus, Ukraine, Liechtenstain, Italy, Denmark America, Romania, Japan and others.

Her one and only enemy is Turkey. She often calls him a kopele (bastard), old hag and a perverted idiot.

Relationships
Bulgaria

Sofia loves her brother. She has gone through many things and Bulgaria has been always there for her. She loves spending time with him. Sofia, Bulgaria and Plovdiv often meet eachother, although they live in different places. They love going to bulgarian villages and make rakiya together.

Plovdiv

Sofia really loves Plovdiv. They have been together ever since they started existing. They were inseparable untill Byzantine took over Plovdiv. Sofia really missed her brother back then. She was rally happy when Plovdiv became part of Bulgaria again. That way she could've seen him. They were living happily together until 1396, when the whole Bulgaria falls under Ottoman rule. Bulgarian people were tortured for 5 centuries (the turks raped women, murdered people and kidnapped children). When Bulgaria finally got free from the Ottoman Empire, they were so happy. But bad news came after that. Bulgaria was separeted to Principality of Bulgaria and Eatern Rumelia (Plovdiv back then was in Eastern Rumelia). Plovdiv was once again separed from Sofia and Bulgaria. But gladly, Bulgaria proclaimed full independence in 1908 after uniting with Eastern Rumelia in 1885. They became a full family once again.

Sofia really likes messing with Plovdiv. They often fight of who is Bulgaria's favourite. They like playing football together and prank over people.

Turkey

She really hates him, bacause of the things that he did to her and her brothers while they were under his rule. Somehow, she also likes him. He's being nice to her and everything. She also thinks that he's quite hot, but she's too stubborn to admit it. She tries to stay away from him, because he really messes up her mind. She sometimes act like a tsundere around him. She also calls him an old hag, although she's actually older than him. She also loves to play pranks on him.

History
Sofia was originally a Thracian settlement called Serdica or Sardica, possibly named after the Celtic tribe Serdi that had populated it. For a short period during the 4th century B.C., the city was possessed by Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great. Sofia first became part of the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Khan Krum in 809, after a long siege. Afterwards, it was known by the Bulgarian name "Sredets" and grew into an important fortress and administrative centre. After the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under John I Tzimiskes' armies in 971, the Bulgarian Patriarch Damyan chose Sofia for his seat in the next year. After a number of unsuccessful sieges, the city fell to the Byzantine Empire in 1018, but once again was incorporated into the restored Bulgarian Empire at the time of Tsar Ivan Asen I.

From the 12th to the 14th century, Sofia was a thriving centre of trade and crafts. It is possible that it had been called by the common population Sofia (meaning "wisdom" in Ancient Greek) about 1376 after the church of Saint Sophia. However, in different testimonies it was called both "Sofia" and "Sredets" until the end of the 19th century. In 1382, Sofia was seized by the Ottoman Empire in the course of the Bulgarian-Ottoman Wars after a long siege. Around 1393 it became the seat of newly established Sanjak of Sofia.

After the temporary hush which followed after 1373, in 1380 the Ottomans again started hostilities. With a large army Sultan Murad headed towards the south-western regions of the Tarnovo Tsardom which main objective to seize its center Sofia. After a bloody clashes in the Zlatitsa valley the Turks moved on to Sofia and besieged it. The city which was commanded by ban Yanuka repulsed all the attacks of the superior Ottoman forces under Lala Shahin. The later could not continue the siege and was forced to pull back to Odrin where he reported his failure to the Sultan. While he was absent the Turks managed to infiltrate Sofia and one Muslim Bulgarian captured ban Yanuke while hunting and sent him to Lala Shahin who was in Plovdiv at that time. From there the Bulgarian commander was sent back to Sofia and when the defenders saw their captured leader they surrendered the city to the Ottomans (1382).

Sofia was taken by Russian forces on January 4, 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78, and became the capital of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria in 1879, which became the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1908. It was proposed as a capital by Marin Drinov and was accepted as such on 3 April 1879. After the Liberation War, the new name "Sofia" replaced the old one. By the time of its liberation the population of the city was 11,649. For a few decades after the liberation the city experienced large population growth mainly from other regions of the country.

During World War II, Sofia was bombed by Allied aircraft in late 1943 and early 1944. As a consequence of the invasion of the Soviet Red Army, Bulgaria's government, which was allied with Germany, was overthrown.