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Bulgaria's Largest Wine Expo Opened in Plovdiv

by MacBesT on 03/14/2010 11:53 0 comments , 3 views
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Bulgaria's Economy Minister Traikov opened the wine expo VInaria 2010 in Plovdiv Sunday. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s largest international commercial exhibit of wines “Vinaria 2010” was opened in Plovdiv Sunday by Economy Minister Traicho Traikov.

In his opening statement, Traikov declared that the wine production sector in Bulgaria is developing as a combination of old traditions and new technologies.

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St. Sofronij Vrachanski

by MacBesT on 03/11/2010 01:06 0 comments , 2 views



March 11 the Orthodox Church commemorates St. Sofronij Vrachanski - the second in its importance key figure of the early Revival Period in Bulgaria. He was the last BG saint to be cannonised by the church - in 1964.

He was born in the town of Kotel in 1739. He made two manual copies of the "Slavonic-Bulgarian History", written by Paisij Hilendarski. He was laso popular as the author of the autobiography book "Life and Sufferings ...

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870 Years from Te Battle of Klokotnitsa. The 40 Holy Martyrs

by MacBesT on 03/09/2010 01:37 0 comments , 8 views
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The Battle of Klokotnitsa occurred on 9 March 1230 near the village of Klokotnitsa (today in Haskovo Province, Bulgaria). As a result, the Second Bulgarian Empire emerged once again as the most powerful state in Eastern Europe and the power of the Despotate of Epirus faded. The battle is often considered by historians to be the luckiest and most fruitful in Bulgarian military history. ...
 
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435th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo

by MacBesT on 03/06/2010 02:24 0 comments , 9 views
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian ...

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The largest mass murderer in World History, Stalin died on this day before 57 years

by MacBesT on 03/05/2010 04:36 0 comments , 8 views
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Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili - Stalin

Country: Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR - Soviet Union).

Kill tally: Approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political "offences". At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the 'Gulag Archipelago' never returning ...

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05.03. - Katyn massacre March

by MacBesT on 03/05/2010 01:53 0 comments , 7 views
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940. This official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo ...

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church was established in 870 AD March 04, 2010

by MacBesT on 03/04/2010 01:12 0 comments , 8 views
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has its origin in the flourishing Christian communities and churches, set up in the Balkans as early as the first centuries of the Christian era.

Christianity was brought to the Bulgarian lands and the rest of the Balkans by Apostle Paul and Apostle Andrew in the 1st century AD when the first organised Christian communities were also formed. By the beginning of the 4th century, Christianity had ...

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Anniversary from the birth of Boris Drangov

by MacBesT on 03/03/2010 02:46 0 comments , 8 views




Boris Stoyanov Drangov (Bulgarian: Áîðèñ Ñòîÿíîâ Äðàíãîâ; 15 March 1872–26 May 1917) was a Bulgarian colonel and warfare pedagogue.

Drangov was born in Skopje in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia (today the capital of the Republic of Macedonia), to the family of a rich timber merchant. He graduated from the local Bulgarian Exarchate school or the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. In 1891, he enrolled in the Military School in ...

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March 3rd - the National Day of Bulgaria

by MacBesT on 03/03/2010 02:36 0 comments , 5 views
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What happened on that day and how long has it been celebrated? The San Stefano Peace Treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was signed on February 19th (March 3rd, according to the Gregorian calendar), 1878. It marked the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. According to the peace treaty, an autonomous tributary Bulgarian principality was founded, having a Christian government and a people?s militia.

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Anniversary of the restoration of BG Exarchate

by MacBesT on 02/28/2010 01:45 0 comments , 9 views
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February 28th 1870 the BG autocephalous church was restated as an Exarchate by a Sultan’s official decree. That act confirmed the BG nationality living within the b orders of the Exarchate.

Here is the history of that important act:

In 1762, St. Paissiy of Hilendar (1722-1773), a monk from the south-western Bulgarian town of Bansko, wrote a short historical work which, apart from being the first work written in the Modern ...

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