The Battle of Varna occurred on November 10, 1444, in the vicinity of Varna, situated in eastern Bulgaria. This pivotal clash ...
No, this isn't the Onion. Cannonballs that were purportedly used by Dracula during the 15th century have been discovered in Bulgaria. Researchers have found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an ...
Archaeologists in Bulgaria are claiming to have uncovered stone cannonballs used during Vlad III Dracula’s assault on the historic Zishtova Fortress. The unusually cruel military commander—famously ...
Even this long after his death at the hands of Ottoman police in 1903, Balkan revolutionary Gotse Delchev can't find peace. Last century, the tug-of-war over Delchev's place in shared history and ...
A short history of an uprising by (mostly) Bulgarian peasants in the waning Ottoman Empire. The peasants fought to abolish their feudal duties and taxes, but many of their leaders were also motivated ...
Turkic tribe known as Ottomans forms small state in western Anatolia. Ottomans inflict second defeat on Serbs, now led by Prince Lazar, at the Battle of Kosovo, beginning slow conquest of Serbia.
Small cannonballs from culverins (left) found by archaeologists in the 15th- to 16th-century layer at the Zishtova Fortress in Bulgaria's Svishtov Svishtov Municipality No, this isn’t the Onion.