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 War it became the "Day of Macedonia" with the idea of paying tribute to all those who died in the struggle for liberation, explains Assoc. Prof. Dr Spas Tashev of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a researcher on Balkan history, demography and geopolitics and author of the study "The Fights of the Macedonian Bulgarians for Rights and Independence - 68 Cases from the Period 1944-1994". Macedonia Day in Bulgaria is always celebrated on a movable date - the 51st day after Easter.
"Late Medieval Bulgarian Clothing and Armour" is the name of the new permanent exhibition at the Baba Vida Fortress in the town of Vidin on the Danube. Visitors can see the clothing, armour and accoutrements of the late Middle Ages in the Bulgarian..
The International Scientific Forum "Cultural Bridges: the Stories of Remarkable Bulgarians in Serbia" took place at the end of June in the town of Tsaribrod in Serbia. It was organised with the financial support of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and..
On All Saints' Day, when the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks the Synaxis of All-Praiseworthy Twelve Apostles of Christ and the memory of all known and unknown martyrs and confessors of Christ, the laity in Bulgaria were rewarded for their faith...
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