The medieval settlement included an inner city-citadel on a high rocky plateau, an outer city and unfortified suburbs.

After spending seven years in Constantinople and Mount Athos, he returned to Bulgaria and founded a monastery near the Holy Trinity Church in Turnovo, where he established the Tarnovo Literary School.

along with access to some of Bulgaria’s best attractions. You've got highlights like a monastery carved into a cliff, natural thermal springs and the country’s only desert." ...

Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.

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The wall outside St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery has become a place of pilgrimage for ... The Guardian has a writeup. IN BULGARIA: Rosen Zhelyazkov was selected as the next Bulgarian prime ...

It has the founding qualities of the so called acheiropoeta. - Portaïtissa, Our Lady of the Gate. It is located at the monastery of Iviron. Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the ...

Not as widely known in the United States as St. Valentine are two other saints at the top of the list on Feb. 14, and recent ...

Asked whether Ukraine would be part of the negotiations, the president said on Thursday, “Of course they would.” A day ...