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Thousands commemorate the 148th anniversary of the April Uprising in Oborishte

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Thousands of Bulgarians took part in the national commemoration in the historic area of Oborishte in the Pazardjik region, where the first session of the first Bulgarian National Assembly was held in April 1876. Its deputies decided to proclaim the April Uprising. 

Today, Rositsa Kirova, deputy chairwoman of the National Assembly, in her solemn speech to the participants in the event, recalled the words of the Bulgarian revolutionary, writer and historian Zahari Stoyanov, who described the first deputies as "angels, the most honest and ideal personalities among the people". 

"On this sacred historical site, the Bulgarian people expressed in the most unequivocal way their will to throw off the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Their will for freedom," Kirova said. 


(Information provided by BNR Plovdiv.)

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