On this day - 17 January - we celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of the legendary piper Dafo Trendafilov. He was born in 1919 in the village of Gela in the Rhodope Mountains and his whole life remains forever linked to this mystical land.
St. Demetrius Day – October 26, is celebrated throughout Bulgaria, and his relics, kept in Thessaloniki, are a constant object of veneration by Bulgarians who often travel to Northern Greece. In the folk calendar, St...
The Anthem of Independence was performed for the first time on September 22, 1908, in the Black Sea city of Burgas. The author of the melody and lyrics—military bandmaster Georgi Shagunov—noted on the title page of the score that the anthem was..
On September 11, 1930, in the village of Tvarditsa, Burgas region, Nikola Stanchev Nikolov was born. A freestyle and classical wrestler, in 1956 he won the first Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in the 79 kg category in Melbourne..
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