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It was celebrated for the first time on 19 February 1880 as the Day of Emperor Alexander II's Ascension and the Conclusion of the San Stefano Peace Treaty. [4] It was officially designated as Liberation Day on its 10th anniversary in 1888 by the Principality of Bulgaria. [5] It was only in 1978 when it started to be celebrated on a national scale.
12 December – The European Union grants Bulgaria and Romania full entry to the Schengen Area beginning in 2025. [14] 15 December – Authorities seize 190 kilograms of cocaine valued at $7 million from a cargo ship that had docked in the port of Burgas from Peru. [15] 20 December – One person is killed in an avalanche in the Pirin. [16]
However, the celebrations of the first National Day were delayed until 23 February and that day continues to be celebrated since. [19] Bulgaria: Liberation Day: 3 March: 1878 Ottoman Empire: Treaty of San Stefano which created the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria. [20] Independence Day: 22 September: 1908 [21] Bulgarian Declaration of ...
Date Holiday Official name (Bulgarian) Notes 1 January: New Year's Day: Нова година 3 March: Liberation Day: Ден на Освобождението на България от османско иго See Liberation of Bulgaria. 1 May: Labour Day
1 January – New Year's Day; 3 March – Liberation Day; 18 April – Orthodox Good Friday; 19–21 April – Orthodox Easter; 1 May – Labour Day; 6 May – Armed Forces Day and Saint George's Day; 24 May – Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavic Script Day; 6 September – Unification Day; 22 September – Independence Day
Liberation Day (Bulgaria) O. October Revolution Day; U. Unification Day (Bulgaria) This page was last edited on 10 September 2023, at 17:46 (UTC). Text is ...
Ferdinand of Bulgaria proclaiming independence in Tarnovo, 1908. The de jure independence of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Независимост на България, romanized: Nezavisimost na Bǎlgariya) from the Ottoman Empire was proclaimed on 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1908 in the old capital of Tarnovo by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who afterwards took the title "Tsar".
The Liberation of Bulgaria is the historical process as a result of the Bulgarian Revival. In Bulgarian historiography, the liberation of Bulgaria refers to those events of the Tenth Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) that led to the re-establishment of the Bulgarian state under the Treaty of San Stefano of 3 March 1878.