Today, Bulgaria celebrates the 140th anniversary of the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. The center of the festivities is Plovdiv, where on this day in 1885, after the entry of the Golyamo Konare detachment into the..
On September 22, 1908, three decades after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, Bulgaria declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire. The desired independence did not happen immediately , because the Treaty of San Stefano (February 19,..
