The 145th anniversary of the outbreak of the April Uprising is being marked with various events throughout the country. The uprising started prematurely on April 20, 1876 in the town of Koprivshtitsa. 145 years later, Bulgarians present wreaths of gratitude in the historic square in the old town.
The uprising was organized by the Revolutionary Committee in Giurgiu. Although brutally suppressed by the Ottoman authorities, the action was a political success, making the Bulgarian question part of the agenda of European diplomacy at the time. The reactions led to the convening of an ambassadorial conference in Constantinople. After its failure, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 started, leading to the Liberation of Bulgaria.
A Thracian temple from the 3rd century BC, unparalleled in Bulgaria, can turn 10 acres of Plovdiv's South region into an archaeological park. The site is located at the base of the Great Mound, which a team of the Plovdiv-based Regional Archaeological..
After the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, architects from Europe flocked to Sofia, which became the new Bulgarian capital city in 1879, to give it a modern look and functionality. In the end of the 19 th century the first..
Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria sent a letter to Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate), the Bulgarian Patriarchate reported. The message reads: "Your Beatitude, on this date exactly 10 years ago, your solemn enthronement as..
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