The municipality of Stara Zagora is situated in the southern central part of Bulgaria. It is one of the most ancient settlements in Europe, inhabited for at least 8000 years. Both the remains of Neolithic dwellings (6th century B.C.), and the various archeological excavations from Thracian and Roman times witness to its millennial history. It was established by the Thracians in VI century B.C. under the name of Beroe. Later (II-IV century A.D.)...

The Bulgarian joint-stock company with international share "Agrosun" is awaiting to be announced a winner in the tender for building a mall in the central city of Stara Zagora.

On December 29 2006, the Supreme Administrative Court decreed that the city's authorities had to publicly announce that "Agrosun" won the tender.

The obligatory instructions of the Court, however, have not been observed yet.

Meanwhile, the Municipal Council proposed that the...

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 t...

London Museum apologizes to Bulgaria for the blunder with the "Macedonian" inscription


British Museum officials apologized to the Bulgarian Embassy in London and changed the scandalous inscription under the Tetraevalgelia of Vidin
Photo: Archives of Standart

Do you remember how grandfather Liben, the character of Bulgarian writer Lyuben Karavelov, takes the mickey out of the citizens of the British Islands: "These are the oddest people on earth. I ...

The day of the Holy Apostle Andrew, the First-Called

November 30, 2006


Name day of everyone named Andrey, Andriana (the name has the meaning "masculine", therefore "strong").

The Holy Apostle Andrew, the First-Called, was the first of the Apostles to follow Christ, and he later brought his own brother, the holy Apostle Peter, to Christ. The future apostle was from Bethsaida, and from the time of his youth he turned with all his soul to God. He did ...