There is a map which helped usher in the birth of modern Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. The Austro-Hungarian researcher Felix Kanitz (1829 – 1904) was the first West European to have travelled to more than 3,200 towns and villages..
The name of the Bulgarian Irenе Velichkova-Yamami is mostly associated with her long-term research on embroidery , which has been perfected over the centuries and has turned from a widespread craft in the past into a valuable art form in the present..