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site.btaBulgaria Marks Important Anniversaries on Friday
The ruins of the Great Basilica in Pliska (BTA Photo/Hristo Kasabov)
A national gathering will be held in the Oborishte area near Panagyurishte today, May 2, to commemorate the outbreak of the 1876 April Uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman rule. Later in the day, Pliska, the earliest capital of Bulgaria, will host observances of the 1,160th anniversary of the conversion of the Bulgarians to Christianity and 1,170 years since the creation of the Bulgarian alphabet.
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