The historical and cultural artifacts of the Ottoman era in Bulgaria's southeastern Plovdiv city have fallen into ruin. The city, which gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, has ...

The well-preserved remains of a lost church believed to be part of a Medieval monastery were discovered by archaeologists in ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

SOFIA, March 5. /TASS/. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia traveled to Bulgaria where he took part in the events dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria from the ...

Bulgaria celebrates Levski as the Apostle of Freedom. Born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on July 18, 1837, he was crucial in ...

WW1 postcard showing Central Powers monarchs: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.

made him realize that the focus of the revolution must shift toward the interior of Bulgaria. He believed that the creation of a solid network of committees within the Ottoman Empire was the key ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

Ottoman Lands: 100 Years Ago And Now The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th century and grew to dominate not just the Anatolian peninsula, but large swaths of ...

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev issued a ... territories of current-day Bulgaria were under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Remembered in his home country as a figure who envisioned ...