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.
According to Ottoman documents around 500 dervishes once lived around what is today the village of Bivolyane in Momchilgrad municipality, trained at Elmala Baba Teke, a religious centre once famed as the biggest Dervish centre in this part of the..
Holy Spirit Monday is also celebrated in Bulgaria as Macedonia Day. The tradition dates back to the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903), originally it was the Day of the Struggle for the Liberation of Macedonia and Adrianople, and after the First World..
Immediately after the great Christian feast of Pentecost, we celebrate the Day of the Holy Spirit - the third person of the Holy Trinity. It is also the Church's last feast before the Feast of All Saints, which concludes the Easter cycle. The Divine..
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