“Dobrudzha 1940”. This is the title of a photo exhibition opening in Varna on 11 September. It is part of the events marking the 80th anniversary since the signing of the Treaty of Craiova and the return of Southern Dobrudzha within the bounds of Bulgaria. The photographs on display trace the events connected with the signing of the treaty. The exposition includes a multimedia presentation “The call of Dobrudzha”, tracing the events from the autumn of 1940. Click here to see some of the archive photographs. The exposition is organized by the Regional Museum of History in Dobrich and is on at Northern Hall of the Museum of Archaeology in Varna.
The Regional History Museum in Gabrovo displays a modest, rectangular piece of paper measuring 10 by 15 cm : the first Bulgarian banknote — a twenty-leva bill with the serial number 000001. It was printed on August 1, 1885, in St. Petersburg, and this..
Founding a Bulgarian Orthodox parish thousands of kilometers away from the homeland is no easy task, especially when the Bulgarian diaspora is scattered across vast distances. In Bulgaria we take for granted that every neighborhood in a large city has..
The Urvich Fortress continues to reveal its secrets from the time when Sofia was Roman Serdica. A triangular stone tower dating back to the end of the 2nd century was discovered by young archaeologists Dr. Filip Petrunov and..
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