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Today is ATANASOVDEN (St. Athanasius Day)
1/18/2024 8:00:00 AM
January 18 the Orthodox Church honors St. Atanasius The Great - a holiday connected with the New Year?s rites. According to the traditional beliefs, St. Atanasius is the ruler of snow and ice. Dressed in a silk shirt he ascends the mountain, riding his white horse and exclaims: ?Winter, go away; Summer, come again!? That?s why this holiday is also known as the Mid-winter Day. St. Atanasius? Day, just like the preceding St. Anthony?s Day, is a holiday of the blacksmiths, ironmongers, cutters and shoeing smiths. St. Atanasius is the patron of blacksmiths and he symbolizes immortality.
The German tourists back to the Rhodope resorts
10/7/2003 12:00:00 AM
(Based on an article in the Maritsa newspaper)\r\n After a ten-year break, the leading German tour-operator TUI starts sending German tourists to Pamporovo again. Contracts have been si...
The Royal Train ?Crown Express?
10/6/2003 12:00:00 AM
Today, October 6th, 2003, turns 115 years from the establishment of the Bulgarian State Railways. To celebrate that anniversary, a steam engine 01.02 with an elite train composition called Crown Ex...
John Atanassov ? the Father of Computers
10/4/2003 12:00:00 AM
Today starts the national celebrations of the 100th anniversary from the birth of the Father of the Computer, by unveiling a monument of John Atanassov in Sofia. The monument is located right outsi...
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An investor needed
10/3/2003 12:00:00 AM
(The information is based on a publication in the Maritsa newspaper)\r\n Today?s news refers to a team of scientists from the North-Bulgarian-town of Rousse (right on the Danube R...
The Kouklen Industrial Park
10/2/2003 12:00:00 AM
Based on an interview in the Maritsa newspaper with the Chairman of the ?Rhodopes and Kouklen Park? Consortium, founded in Plovdiv, Mr. Simeon Yankov:The consortium was founded in the beginning...
The famous jazz-musician Milcho Leviev back to Plovdiv again
10/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
After the jazzmen Milcho Leviev, Billy Cobham and Vicky Almazidou have raised the two-thousand-people audience in the Thessaloniki Open-air Theatre to their feet, we will be able to enjoy Milcho Le...
The latest production facilities of the Peshtera Winery
9/30/2003 12:00:00 AM
Yesterday, in the town of Saedinenie (near Plovdiv), the Agricultural Minister Mehmed Dikme officially opened the new ?wine cellar? facilities of the Peshtera Winery JSC. According to the minister,...
The opening of the Autumn International Technical Fair in Plovdiv
9/29/2003 12:00:00 AM
According to the Maritsa newspaper, Mrs. Lydia Shouleva, a Vice-Premiere and Economy Minister, will declare the traditional the Autumn International Technical Fair open, today in Plovdiv. This year...
Excursions in Bulgaria ? Sights:
9/26/2003 12:00:00 AM
-Zheravna-Museum,Art gallery,the Yordan Yovkovs own house,the St.Nikolai church(1834)-Kotel-The Museum of History,Natural Science and Etnography museum;110 houses ?Architecture of the Bulgarian...
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