site.btaMarch 3: Decades-Old Controversy
Pictured from left: Saddoullah Pasha, Safvet Pasha (for the Ottoman Sultan), Count Nicolas Ignatiew and diplomat Aleksandr Nelidow (for the Russian Emperor) sign the Treaty, San Stefano, February 19/March 3, 1878 (BTA Archives)
March 3 (Old Style February 19) has been marked in Bulgaria since 1879, but it became this country's national day as recently as 1990. In the ensuing decades, the date has given rise to much controversy.
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