Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans ... It was long influenced by Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years before gaining its independence in the 19th Century.

Remembered in his home country as a figure who envisioned independent Bulgaria as a democratic republic, he was executed by the Ottoman authorities in 1873, six years before Bulgaria gained ...

A gold coin unearthed at the site of a medieval fortress in Bulgaria indicates the wealth of the people who lived there ...

March 3rd marks the national holiday of Bulgaria, celebrating the country’s Liberation from Ottoman rule ... will pass through various landmarks before concluding at the Apriltsi Memorial ...

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 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 ...