• Science and Scientific Research in Bulgaria

    Sunday, June 29th, 2008

    Largely due to the creation of Slavonic alphabet, is the nascence and follow-on development of scientific thinking in Bulgaria. Examples to attest to the aforementioned we can find in the narrative account left to us by Bishop Constantine Preslavski (of Preslav), the history of the Slavic alphabet (About the Slavic Letters, or Apologia of the [...]

  • History of Bulgarian Education

    Saturday, June 28th, 2008

    Generally recognized foundation layers of the deed of education in Bulgaria are the disciples of Cyril and Methodius, notably St. Kliment and St. Naoum (end of 9th Century). Then, and in the subsequent 10th Century, the literary schools of Ohrid and Preslav proceeded as major focal points of learning. With the reign of Tsar Simeon [...]

  • Short historical background of Bulgaria

    Friday, June 27th, 2008

    The lands of present Bulgaria, situated in the north of the Balkan Peninsula on a key intersection of routes connecting West- and Central Europe with adjacent Asia and the Mediterranean Sea, have been populated since remote antiquity. Archaeological explorations have uncovered presence of human life throughout these lands dating back as early as the Paleolithic [...]