On March 4, Bulgaria marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of voivode Todor Aleksandrov. The revolutionary, who was born in the town of Stip, is regarded as the second most influential figure in the Macedonian Struggle after Gotse Delchev.
At the age of 16, Aleksandrov joined the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) in Skopje. After the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising he was sent to a prison in the Ottoman empire. In 1911, he became a member of the Central Committee of the IMARO. After 1918, he was a prominent figure of the Macedonian emigrants in Bulgaria. He was assassinated in 1925 in the Pirin Mountains, after the signature of the May Manifesto in Vienna.
There are three special days on the calendar of the Bulgarian Orthodox church, on which believers pray to God and give alms to honour the memory of their dear departed. The three All Souls’ Days always fall on the Saturdays before Meat..
One frosty November morning in 1917, as World War I was raging, a Zeppelin L 59 took off from the air base near Yambol bound for Tanzania. The purpose of the flight was to deliver ammunition and materials to the German military units in a remote..
October 27 marks the 165th anniversary of the birth of Academician Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, who was the first theorist of the Bulgarian literary language, phonetics and grammar. He was born was born in 1859 in the village of Kubey, Bessarabia...
On November 30, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Apostle Andrew . In Bulgaria the saint is known as Saint Andrey and the folk..
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