Google Doodle is marking the birth anniversary of Dr. Stamen Grigorov – the Bulgarian microbiologist and doctor who discovered Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum, the bacterium essential to the fermentation of yogurt, which is to be found in nature in Bulgaria as a free element.
The bacterium was first described in 1905 by Bulgarian university student Stamen Grigorov in a report delivered at Pasteur institute in Paris. Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum is what makes yogurt a natural probiotic with a wholesome effect on human health.
One of the world’s first probiotics was developed by Prof. Nikola Alexandrov in the 1980s in Bulgaria on the basis of Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum.
On October 14, the Bulgarian Orthodox church pays homage to Saint Paraskeva, also called St. Petka of Tarnovo and the day is known in Bulgaria as "Petkovden". Saint Petka was born in the 11th century in the town of Epibat, on the Sea of..
On 19 October 2025, the day on which Orthodox Bulgarians commemorate St Ivan Rilski the Miracle-Worker, the newly renovated St Ivan Rilski Church in Chicago will officially reopen its doors. Named after Bulgaria’s heavenly patron , the church will host..
Archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov on Thursday announced the discovery of a large circular temple at Perperikon, the early-historic rock complex in the Eastern Rhodopes, BTA reported. Dating to the 3rd–4th centuries AD , the structure is believed to..
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