Kuzman Shapkarev
Kuzman Shapkarev was born in Ohrid in 1834. He wrote the book collection ‘Bulgarian Folklore Proverbs’. It had a number of volumes that portrayed Bulgarian psychology and all of its…
The Miladinovi brothers
Konstantin and Dimitar Miladinovi contributed to the development of the Bulgarian social and cultural identity. In 1861 they published a book collection called ‘Bulgarian Folk Songs’. It gathered lyrics from…
Blagoevgrad teachers
Nedelya Petkova was the first female teacher in the Macedonian region. She was teaching in an all-girls school and just in her first year had over 200 girls in her…
Petar Beron
The most important encyclopedist was Petar Beron. He wrote the Fish Primar. It was called like that because there was a fish on the front page. Or at least, this…
Teachers as inspiration
Here you can see original books that were used in the Bulgarian schools in different decades throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The teachers were not just teachers in a…
Enlightenment
Bulgarians lost their independence to the Ottomans and joined the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 14th century. At the end of the 18th century, they started to regain…
Neophyte of Rila
Neophyte of Rila is the first teacher in the first Bulgarian school established in 1835 in Gabrovo. He was sent by the founder - Vasil Aprilov, to study the new…
Paisii and Sofronii
The beginning of the Bulgarian National Revival starts with the creation of Slavonic-Bulgarian History by Saint Paisius of Hilendar or in Bulgarian – Istorita Slavyanobulgarska by Paìsiy Hilendàrski. He can…
Tombstones
We’ve now reached the Afterlife section. Here you can see some objects that were found in the top part of a necropolis that existed in this region. The objects include…
Figures
The items you are looking at are called prehistoric anthropomorphic plastic. They are typical for the cultures in the Eastern Mediterrenian and you can barely find anything like them if…