The coins were minted during the reign of Justinian the Great, whose rule saw the Byzantine Empire reach its greatest ... Augustus," a reference to the first Roman emperor, whose name was later ...

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

Tsar Simeon ruled over the Bulgarian Empire between 893 AD and 927 AD ... In Russia, Cyrillic was first written in the early Middle Ages. After going through many changes over the centuries ...

From there, he began his first tour of Bulgaria ... the dramatic events at the court in Sofia, where a Bulgarian stood alone against an empire, driven by his will and belief in the people's ...