In the 1860s Bulgarians were feeling that the old order within the Ottoman Empire was irretrievably gone and the time for big changes was coming. Newspapers spread the news of revolts and wars across the Balkans and Europe. The intensification..
It is 150 years since the day on which Vasil Levski, known as the Apostle of Freedom, was hanged in the outskirts of Sofia, a spot that is now in the centre of Bulgaria’s capital city, but the memory of him has lived on. As he himself wrote in a..
Levski, The Apostle, Deacon Ignatius... These are just some of the names by which people know Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (18 July 1837 – 18 February 1873), the national hero of Bulgaria, who has become a symbol of struggle for freedom and..
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