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Culture of Bulgaria. Bulgarian traditional dance. A man from Florence, 1888 Renaissance-style painting by Konstantin Velichkov. A number of ancient civilizations, including the Thracians, ancient Greeks, Scythians, Celts, ancient Romans, Goths (Ostrogoths and Visigoths), Slavs (East and West Slavs), Varangians and the Bulgars have left their ...
Traditional Bulgarian pogača (left) and a pile of mekitsi with jam (right) Pita. Sweet pita. Pita with meat – variably with mushrooms or with tomatoes and onion. Pogača (usual ritual bread) Kravai (usual ritual bread) Kolach (usual ritual bread) Banitsa – the most popular pastry in Bulgaria with a number of varieties.
Traditional Bulgarian Bride Sayan Costume, National History Museum, Sofia. 19 century female and male costumes from Vratsa region. The Bulgarian national garb is a symbolic part of Bulgarian culture. It conveys information about the person wearing it via embroidery of diverse symbols.
Golden Age of medieval Bulgarian culture (12 P) H. Bulgarian heraldry (1 C) Cultural history of Bulgaria (4 C, 1 P) L. Languages of Bulgaria (6 C, 10 P)
The opening of new production facilities of Plastchim in Botevgrad, Bulgaria. Todor Zhivkov is welcomed with bread and salt. Bread and salt (Bulgarian: хляб и сол, romanized: hlyab i sol) is a traditional Bulgarian custom expressing hospitality, showing that the guest is welcomed. The bread and salt is commonly presented to guests by a ...
Kukeri dancing in Kalipetrovo. Kukeri is a divinity personifying fecundity. Sometimes in Bulgaria and Serbia it is a plural divinity. In Bulgaria, a ritual spectacle of spring (a sort of carnival) takes place after a scenario of folk theatre, in which Kuker's role is interpreted by a man attired in a sheep- or goat-pelt, wearing a horned mask and girded with a large wooden phallus.
Many Bulgarian dances are line dances, with the dancers holding hands in a straight or curved line, facing in toward the center of the dance space.Originally men and women danced in separate lines, or in a gender-segregated line in which the last woman and first man held opposite ends of a handkerchief, to avoid gender contact but today men and women often dance in mixed lines.
Bulgarian folk culture. Traditions by country. Ethnography of Bulgaria. Slavic traditions.