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 War it became the "Day of Macedonia" with the idea of paying tribute to all those who died in the struggle for liberation, explains Assoc. Prof. Dr Spas Tashev of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a researcher on Balkan history, demography and geopolitics and author of the study "The Fights of the Macedonian Bulgarians for Rights and Independence - 68 Cases from the Period 1944-1994". Macedonia Day in Bulgaria is always celebrated on a movable date - the 51st day after Easter.
On May 11, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church honours the memory of the Holy Equal-to-the Apostles and Co-Patrons of Europe Sts. Cyril and Methodius, creators of the original Bulgarian alphabet - the Glagolitic alphabet known in Bulgarian as Glagolitsa ...
The town of Petrich is picturesquely located at the foot of one of the most beautiful and still untouched by tourism mountains - Ograzhden and Belasitsa. The area around the southwestern town has been inhabited since ancient times, as..
In the Valley of the Thracian Kings near the village of Shipka, where the most important burial tombs of the rulers of the ancient Thracian kingdom of the Odrysians, Kazanlak Municipality has opened the theme park "The World of the Thracians". The..
The fate of the Saints Peter and Paul church in Sofia has had its ups and downs, it has been through all kinds of uncertainties. It is perhaps one of..
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