Short liberation
In the Pirin region, Blagoevgrad was the only town that was briefly liberated from the Ottoman Empire in February 1878. The so-called first liberation was short-lived until the summer of…
Georgi Izmirliev
The April Uprising of 1876 was an organized web of insurrections organized by Bulgarians against the Ottoman Empire. The attempt for an uprising in the Blagoevgrad region failed because of…
Liberation
In 1870 the Bulgarian Church was declared independent from the Greek one. The biggest organized uprising happened in April 1876. The cruelty suppression of the uprising provoked an international response.…
Conclusion
The Bulgarian language regained its significance on the cultural scene of the Balkans. It started with Paisius and it continued with the fight for new Bulgarian schools and the revival…
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…