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June 28 1914 – Sofia Stock Exchange constituent assembly





OnFebruary 21 1912, Parliament adopted the first Law on the stockexchanges, which was promulgated in the State Gazette on February 28the same year. Sofia Stock exchange obtained official permit to startoperating and started effective activity on June 28 1914, only a fewdays before the beginning of World War I. On May 25 1915, the StockExchange Regulation was adopted by a Decree. All issuers of securities,such as banks, production and trading com...
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French retailer Carrefour kicks off construction of Sofia flagship


The construction of the first local outlet of France's Carrefour, Europe's biggest retailer, is underway on Sofia's Tsarigradsko Shose boulevard, a major traffic artery connecting the city center with the eastward suburbs.
Carrefour Bulgaria executive director Xavier Taffet confirmed November 2008 as the launch target for the outlet.
The 5.0 ha plot that will be developed by Carrefour will accommodate a hypermarket and a commercial and entertainme...
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Ivan Geshov was born on that day



Place of birth: Plovdiv. Ivan Evstratiev Geshov (1849-1924) was an economist and publicist, eminent banker, a member of the BG Academy of Sciences. He graduated Financial and Political Scineces in Manchester (1869) and then assisted his father in his trade office in Manchester.

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Today - St. Photius




St. Photius was born in Constantinople about the year 820 in a rich and noble family. Photius received the best for the time education and was the most learned representative of Byzantine Empire.

He was a teacher in the prominent Magnaura school in Constantinople, where the Slavonic equal to Apostle Constantine – Cyril the Philosopher and later the Bulgarian king Simeon the Great.

Photius occupied prestigious positions in the state, but most of al...

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Meeting Of The Lord

 


That day the Church commemorates an important event in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ. Forty days after His birth, the God-Infant was taken to the Jerusalem Temple, the center of the nation's religious life. According to the Law of Moses, a woman who gave birth to a male child was forbidden to enter the Temple of God for forty days. At the end of this time the mother came to the Temple with the child, to offer a young lamb or pigeon ...

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Stefan Stambolov (1854 - 1895) was born on that day




He is the most enthusiastically praised and the most violently denounced politician in Bulgaria's modern history, and what could be a better proof that his extraordinary personality. Born in Turnovo in 1854, he made his way into political life after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. He was a student at the Odessa Seminary, an envoy of the Central Revolutionary Committee in Bucharest, leader of the suppressed uprising in Stara Zagora in 1875, h...

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"I am deeply convinced the cause of Bulgaria..." today is born Atanas Burov



Born on 30 January 1875 in Gorna Oryahovitza. Members of his family played an active role in the national liberation movement, educational and cultural reforms, setting of the national financial system and industry. The farther - Dimitar Burov established the Commercial&Credit House " Burov.D.A&Co." in 1862. After the liberation the company expanded its activities and was reorganised as a joint-stock company. The "Burov" company was amon...

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Czar Peter, son of Simeon the Great died on that day in 969 year.


Czar Peter I of Bulgaria (927-969), the son of Czar Simeon the Great of Bulgaria, was married to Maria Irena, the granddaughter of Byzantine Emperor Romanus I Lecapenus. He ruled for over 40 years and was succeeded by their son Boris II.

Peter I's reign is usually considered a period of decline, but this is largely due to the less frequent notices about Bulgaria in Byzantine chronicles - a natural consequence of the peaceful relations which reign...

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BG art news




For the first time in the last 30 years the Berlinale Film Festival is featuring films with BG actors in the leading roles - Ivan Burnev in the film "I Served the King of England" ("Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho kralé") directed by the famous Czech director Jirí Menzel, and Hristo Zhivkov in the film "In Memory Of Myself" ("In memoria di me") by Saverio Costanzo, Italy.

Two BG actors Ivan Burnev (the photo above) and Hristo Zhivkov, are both among t...

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English Scholarships for Bulgarian Students




European colleges compete for Bulgarian gifted students, teachers are trained abroad

Elite colleges in Europe and the USA compete for Bulgarian young talents. Private secondary schools offer scholarships and other preferential rights to Bulgarian schoolboys and girls. Representatives of schools from all over the world arrive tomorrow in Bulgaria and will organize interviews for higher and school students who want to study abroad. Prestigious Broo...