Hundreds of citizens attended the festive ritual near Mother Bulgaria Monument in the town of Veliko Tarnovo (Central North Bulgaria), where the Unification of Bulgaria was for the first time recognized as a political act by Prince Alexander I Battenberg.
Residents and guests of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia also marked the Unification Day with a ceremony in front of the Memorial Tomb of Alexander I Battenberg (The Battenberg Mausoleum). State institutions, public organizations and citizens laid wreaths and flowers to the Battenberg Mausoleum to express their gratitude for the role of Alexander I Battenberg in the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
The culmination of the celebration is in Plovdiv, the city where the Unification of Bulgaria was declared. The celebrations will end with fireworks. Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev will deliver a speech on the occasion of the Unification Day.
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Cabinet members, public figures and members of the public honoured the memory of the innocent victims of the communist regime in the country following the communist coup in Bulgaria on 9 September, 1944. February 1, Day of Remembrance and..
Bulgaria received the first F-16 Block 70 aircraft at the Lockheed Martin production facility in Greenville, USA. With this act the country’s strategic partnership with the US in the sphere of defence continues its upward development, said PM Rosen..
Bulgaria received the first F-16 Block 70 aircraft at the Lockheed Martin production facility in Greenville, USA. With this act the country’s strategic..
Cabinet members, public figures and members of the public honoured the memory of the innocent victims of the communist regime in the country following..
Bulgaria’s consul to Sweden Stefan Stoykov has met with the eight Bulgarian sailors, members of the crew of the ship Vezhen suspected of sabotaging a..
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