Archaeology: Part of important Roman-era street, building façade found at Plovdiv site
Remnants of what was one of the most important streets in Philippopolis, the ancient name of Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv,
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Bulgaria acts against heavy fuel oil spill from sunken ship off Sozopol
Special barriers have been placed in Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast off Sozopol after authorities were alerted that heavy fuel oil
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Steam train excursion to run in September 2018 as Bulgaria celebrates Independence Day
The municipality of Veliko Turnovo and Bulgarian state railways BDZ are to hold on September 23 a steam train excursion
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Plaque unveiled in Varna honouring Bulgarian sailors who took Jews to Holy Land
A plaque, placed by the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom”, has been unveiled in the port of Varna
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The Bulgarian possession: When ‘all property was theft’
An evening in the second half of the 1940s found two men sitting at a kitchen table in Plovdiv, arguing
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Space for two Bulgarians: Communist fellow travellers
An April day in 1979 found Bulgaria’s first cosmonaut, Georgi Ivanov, high above the earth and facing a crisis quite
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Ilinden Uprising controversy: Zaev in conciliatory signal to Bulgaria
Zoran Zaev has emphasised the “sincere friendship and co-operation” between his country and Bulgaria, in a move to clear away
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Eye in the sky: Helicopter to assist in monitoring traffic to Bulgaria’s Black Sea
A special police operation to control traffic to Bulgaria’s Black Sea is being carried out on August 10, including the
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Bulgaria: The years when the cinema screen was red
As its election campaign theme song in 2005, the Bulgarian Socialist Party used a sped-up, danceable remix of the 1969
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