The medieval settlement included an inner city-citadel on a high rocky plateau, an outer city and unfortified suburbs.

After spending seven years in Constantinople and Mount Athos, he returned to Bulgaria and founded a monastery near the Holy Trinity Church in Turnovo, where he established the Tarnovo Literary School.

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Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.

along with access to some of Bulgaria’s best attractions. You've got highlights like a monastery carved into a cliff, natural thermal springs and the country’s only desert." ...

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It has the founding qualities of the so called acheiropoeta. - Portaïtissa, Our Lady of the Gate. It is located at the monastery of Iviron. Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the ...

The Orthodox Church today honors the memory of St. Charalambos the Wonderworker,, a revered figure known for his miraculous ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the end of Communist rule. A predominantly Slavonic-speaking, Orthodox ...