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The Fourth International Student Olympiad in Math




The university-student Olympiad will be taking place at the Plovdiv University with the participation of about 70 students from Macedonia, Ukraine, Greece, Cypress, Romania, Israel and Bulgaria.

The competition opens at 9 am and will be running for 5 hours. Students will have to solve 4 problems from Algebra, geometry and Logical Analysis.

Results will be announced on Friday and the awards feature 7 gold, 14 silver and 25 ...
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Culture events in Plovdiv today March 11, 2010




March 11, 2010 - Thursday:

5.30 PM, Romfeya Art Gallery - Literary Night. Presentation of the book "Final Words" by Petar Manolov. His poems are described by the author as "terroristic poems for self-defense".

5.30 PM - Suedinenie Hall of the Plovdiv Regional History Museum
. Exhiition "In Search for Harmony" dedicated to the 100th anniversary opf the birth of the eminent BG writer Dimiter Dimov.

6 PM - Trakart Culture Center ...
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St. Sofronij Vrachanski March




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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Art Today Association news




Art Today Association, Banya Starinna Contemporary Art Center presents "Close Look": retrospections, lectures, panels, presentations on the new film and media arts in Germany.

March 9, 2010, 7 PM: "Light is a Kind of Rhythm", Alena Williams (Berlin, New York). Promotion of a book; promotion of films by Jutta Koether, Die Tödliche Doris, Jan Hammer, László Moholy-Nagy, Viking Eggeling, Ralph Steiner, Andreas Wutz, Matthias ...
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870 Years from Te Battle of Klokotnitsa. The 40 Holy Martyrs





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




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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05.03. - Katyn massacre March




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




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





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




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.

Bulgarian people ...