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Exhibition on occasion of 140th anniversary of the Constituent Assembly and the Adoption of the Tarnovo Constitution unveiled in Brussels

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The President of the Bulgarian National Assembly Tsveta Karayancheva and the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli unveiled at the European Parliament in Brussels the exhibition named 140th Anniversary of the Constituent Assembly and the Adoption of the Tarnovo Constitution. Some of the people who wrote the Tarnovo Constitution knew and traveled across Europe, Tsveta Karayancheva said and reminded that the Tarnovo constitution was influenced by the Belgian Constitution, the French declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen and the Declaration of Independence of the USA.

The Constitution of the Principality of Bulgaria, also known as the Tarnovo Constitution, is the first Bulgarian constitution. It was adopted on April 16, 1879 by the Constituent Assembly in Bulgaria’s old capital Veliko Tarnovo after the liberation of Bulgarian from the Ottoman Rule in 1878.




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