Today the Bulgarian Orthodox church honours the memory of the prophet Elijah (Ilyia) – a herald of the true faith in the one true God, a feast day Bulgarians hold in the highest esteem.
The day of St. Elijah, 20 July, coincides with the anniversary of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenia uprising, the highest point in the national liberation struggles of Macedonian and Thracian Bulgarians. After it was crushed in 1903, 30,000 people from the regions of the Ottoman Empire affected fled to Bulgaria.
On Wednesday , the lowest temperatures will be between 3 and 8°C. In the regions with strong wind it will be up to 10-12°C. In Sofia it will be around 4°C. In the western parts of the Danube Plain and the Upper Thracian Plain it will..
Following a series of fires in the Burgas area last summer, including one that destroyed homes in a local villa district, the Burgas municipality has acquired high-tech drones equipped with thermal cameras, night vision, and 3D imaging . The two..
Illegal migrants from Syria, Iraq and Iran have been discovered in Sofia, and ten members of an organised criminal group have been arrested , Deputy City Prosecutor Desislava Petrova told reporters. Two of those arrested have been charged as the..
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