Knyaz (prince) Boris is the son of the ruler Presian. In 865 he made peace with Constantinople and, together with his family, converted to Christianity, taking the name Mihail. In search of what is best for the Bulgarian clergy during the conversion of the people, Prince Boris conducted negotiations with Rome and with Constantinople, and managed to attain autocephaly for the Bulgarian church and to make Bulgaria part of Christian civilization. He involved the disciples of the Slavic enlighteners, saints Cyril and Methodius in the process, thus laying the foundations of Bulgarian literature.
In 889 he became a monk. His heir Vladimir attempted to reinstate paganism, and Boris took power once again, putting his other son, Simeon on the throne. He then returned to the monastery where he died on 2 May, 907.
"It was in the Bulgarian lands that the disciples of Cyril and Methodius created literary centres that made Bulgaria a second centre of Orthodox civilisation after Byzantium. Here was the foundation and the root from which the pan-Slavic culture drew..
According to Ottoman documents around 500 dervishes once lived around what is today the village of Bivolyane in Momchilgrad municipality, trained at Elmala Baba Teke, a religious centre once famed as the biggest Dervish centre in this part of the..
Holy Spirit Monday is also celebrated in Bulgaria as Macedonia Day. The tradition dates back to the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903), originally it was the Day of the Struggle for the Liberation of Macedonia and Adrianople, and after the First World..
"It was in the Bulgarian lands that the disciples of Cyril and Methodius created literary centres that made Bulgaria a second centre of Orthodox..
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