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Bulgaria Celebrates the National Liberation Day
Google greets Bulgaria with a national tricolor logo

March 3, Bulgaria celebrates its National Holiday, marking the 134th anniversary of its Liberation from five centuries of the Ottoman yoke. The 134th anniversary of Bulgaria's Liberation will be honored with ceremonies, traditionally held throughout the country, particularly solemn in towns and cities boasting victorious battles of Russian and Bulgarian soldiers in the 1877-1878 Liberation War. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, known in Bulgaria as the Liberation War, started in the spring of 1877. Russia was moved to declare war on the Ottoman Turkish Empire after the atrocities against the Bulgarian population during the April Uprising of 1876, which were made known to the world by US journalist working for the British press, Januarius MacGahan. Some 66 000 Russian, Belorusian, ...Read