Today we mark 140 years since the opening of the Constituent Assembly. It was convened on February 10, 1879, by the Russian Imperial Commissioner in Bulgaria Prince Dondukov-Korsakov. The Constituent Assembly was convened to ratify the country’s first constitution, known as the Tarnovo Constitution. 226 MPs adopted the Tarnovo Constitution on April 16, 1879. The document endorses the democratic values of the Bulgarian people and became the fundamental law in this country. According to historians, the Tranovo Constitution is among the most-democratic constitutions of its time.
It has taken the Ministry of Culture almost a year and a half to declare the St. Nicholas church in Veliko Tarnovo, built by Kolyo Ficheto, a monument of national significance, BNR’s correspondent in Veliko Tarnovo Zdravka Maslyankova reports...
An exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of Bulgaria's NATO membership will open on 28 March at the National Museum of Military History in Sofia. The exhibition is entitled "The Bulgarian Army - 20 years of being part of NATO" and includes original..
26 March is Thrace Day – the date was included in the official Bulgarian calendar in 2006, but has been celebrated long before that. On this day in 1913 the Bulgarian army conquered the Edirne fortress, until then deemed “impregnable”. The defeat..
After the Liberation in 1878, Bulgaria began to develop at a pace that would make up for the centuries-long absence from the world history map. Young..
For the first time, two of the most mysterious archaeological sites in the Eastern Rhodopes have been studied in detail from air. Bulgarian archaeologists..
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