Bulgaria was the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was created there towards the end of the 9th Century. It was long influenced by Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman Empire ...

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

On March 3rd, 1878, the Treaty of San Stefano was signed, formally recognising Bulgaria as an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire. This marked a turning point in Bulgarian history.

Bulgaria celebrates on Saturday the 140th anniversary since the country’s liberation from the 500-years-long Ottoman oppression and the end of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878. The main ...

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.

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 ...

While most Europeans viewed the region as a cultural and economic backwater, the Balkans played an outsized role in continental diplomacy, as Europe’s Great Powers vied for favor by selling arms ...