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Bulgaria's currency, literally named 'lion' — tough on paper, wobbly against the euro.
means The basic unit of Bulgarian money, divided into 100 stotinki.
from From Bulgarian 'lev,' meaning 'lion' — the same word for the animal doubling as the coin's name, a common pattern in the region (Romania's leu, Moldova's leu, are siblings from the same root). The lion is Bulgaria's heraldic symbol, so stamping money with its name was a small act of national branding, likely dating to the currency's introduction in the late 1800s.
- name origin
- lev means lion in Bulgarian
- euro peg
- fixed to euro since 1999, almost exactly
- plural form
- leva, not levs, in Bulgarian
- subunit
- splits into 100 stotinki, small change