Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

But both the Bulgarians and the Byzantines were also threatened by the Ottoman Empire, which already occupied many former ...

WW1 postcard showing Central Powers monarchs: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.

Bulgaria celebrates on Saturday the 140th anniversary since the country’s liberation from the 500-years-long Ottoman oppression and the end of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878. The main ...

Ottoman Lands: 100 Years Ago And Now The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th century and grew to dominate not just the Anatolian peninsula, but large swaths of ...

MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I will visit Bulgaria on March 2-4 to take part in the gala functions timed for the 140th anniversary of Bulgaria's ...