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

The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has launched an auction to sell scrap Bulgarian coins after the country adopts the euro. The central bank expects to gather a total of about 7,744,450 kg of coins ...

March 3rd marks Bulgaria's Liberation Day, a national holiday that commemorates the country's liberation from Ottoman rule. The date signifies the signing of the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 ...

Completed in 1912, it marks Bulgaria’s liberation from the Ottomans, and is dedicated to the Russian soldiers who died in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War. Just beside it, the much-overshadowed ...

March 3rd marks Bulgaria's Liberation Day, a national holiday that commemorates the country's liberation from Ottoman rule. The date signifies the signing of the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, which ...

Coin weights were the pocket-sized guardians of fair trade. Before modern banking, coin weights ensured fair transactions and ...

The National Day of Bulgaria was celebrated with the laying of flowers and wreaths at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia and the raising of the national flag. The ceremony was attended by ...

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On 3 March, Bulgaria celebrates the 147th anniversary of its liberation from five centuries of Ottoman rule. The day was declared a national holiday in 1990 by a decision of the National Assembly. The ...

On March 3, 1878, in the town of San Stefano, today's Yesilköy, a suburb of Istanbul, a peace treaty was signed between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. It put an end to the Russo-Turkish War of ...

Bulgaria celebrates Levski as the Apostle of Freedom. Born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on July 18, 1837, he was crucial in establishing a revolutionary movement to liberate the country from Ottoman rule in ...