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1930s In Bulgaria
The 1930s in the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Incumbents * Tsar of Bulgaria: Boris III of Bulgaria, Boris III (1918–1943) * Prime Minister of Bulgaria: ** Andrey Lyapchev (1926–1931) ** Aleksandar Malinov (1931) ** Nikola Mushanov (1931–1934) ** Kimon Georgiev (1934–1935) ** Pencho Zlatev (1935) ** Andrey Toshev (1935) ** Georgi Kyoseivanov (1935–1940) Events 1930 * October 4 – Boris III of Bulgaria, Tsar Boris III married Giovanna of Italy, Giovanna of Savoy. 1931 * 21 June – 1931 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 1932 * Varna Aquarium, The Varna Aquarium was unveiled to the public. * FC Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa, a Bulgaria, Bulgarian Football club, association football club based in Gorna Oryahovitsa, was founded. 1933 * February 27 – Following the burning of Reichstag fire, Germany's parliament building, Bulgarian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varna Aquarium
The Varna Aquarium (, ''Varnenski akvarium'') or Aquarium Varna (Аквариум Варна) is a public aquarium in Varna, Bulgaria's largest city on the Black Sea coast. The aquarium's exhibition focuses on the Black Sea's flora and fauna which includes over 140 fish species, but also features freshwater fish, Mediterranean fish, exotic species from faraway areas of the World Ocean, mussels and algae. The foundation of the aquarium was initiated by Prince Ferdinand I on 6 January 1906 in the Euxinograd palace. Ferdinand entrusted Doctor Parashkev Stoyanov with the establishment of a maritime biological station. The monarch also requested assistance from the prominent German biologist Anton Dohrn, founder of the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, who provided Ferdinand with blueprints and photographs of the Naples station. On 25 January 1906, the Varna Municipal Council allotted money for the aquarium's construction and appointed a commission in order to select a suitable locatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Bulgaria
The history of Bulgaria can be traced from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state, and includes the history of the Bulgarian people and their origin. The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. Around 5000 BC, a sophisticated civilization already existed which produced some of the first pottery, jewellery and golden artifacts in the world. After 3500 BC, the Thracians appeared on the Balkan Peninsula. In the late 6th century BC, parts of what is currently Bulgaria, in particular the eastern region of the country, came under the Persian Achaemenid Empire. In the 470s BC, the Thracians formed the powerful Odrysian Kingdom which lasted until 46 BC, when it was finally conquered by the Roman Empire. During the centuries, some Thracian tribes fell under ancient Macedonian and Hellenistic, and also Celtic domination. This mixture of ancient peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 24 December 1939, although voting continued in some areas into January 1940.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp368–369 The elections were officially held on a non-partisan basis with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and Bulgarian Communist Party banned, and in a process tightly controlled by Tsar Boris III, by then the real power in the country.Bulgaria: a country study Federal Research Division, December 1989. However, candidates representing parties did contest the elections. Pro-government candidates won a majority of seats. Voter turnout was 67.2%.Nohlen & Stöver, p370< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria between 6 and 27 March 1938, the first after the 1934 coup.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The elections were held on a non-partisan basis, with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and Bulgarian Communist Party banned. Pro-government candidates won a majority of seats. Voter turnout was 69.5%. Women were allowed to vote – for the first time – if they were married, divorced or widowed.Krassimira Daskalova: ''How Should We Name the “Women-Friendly” Actions of State Socialism?'', in: Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, Vol. 1 (2007), pp. 214–219 (here: p. 215)Available here./ref> Results References {{Bulgarian elections Bulgaria Parliamentary election Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Non-partisan elections Parliamentary Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vakarel
Vakarel () is a village, away from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Population: 1984 people. It is situated in the Sredna Gora mountains, within Ihtiman Municipality. The village is an important transport knot along the Sofia - Plovdiv railway route. The Trakiya motorway runs near Vakarel. Vakarel is 822 meters above sea level. About away from the village is the Vakarel Radio Transmitter. Near Vakarel is the Vakarelian Monastery 'Saint Petka'. The monastery is relatively new, established in the 20th century. Its yearly celebration is on 14 October. Residential areas are also around Vakarel. Vakarel's name is of Aromanian (Balkan Latin) origin, from the word ''vacarel'', "cattleshed, cowshed" or with the Aromanian diminutive suffix ''–el'', "young cowherd", cf. Romanian ''văcar'', "cowboy, neatherd". Gallery File:St-Petka-Monastery-of-Vakarel.jpg, Vacareiian Monastery St. Petka File:Vacarelian-Monastery-Church.jpg, St. Petka Church of Vakarelian Monastery St. Petka Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vakarel Radio Transmitter
The Vakarel Transmitter was a large broadcasting facility for long- and medium wave near Vakarel, Bulgaria. The Vakarel Transmitter was inaugurated in 1937. It had one directional antenna consisting of three guyed masts and another consisting of two masts. The most remarkable mast of the Vakarel Transmitter was the Blaw-Knox tower, built in 1937 by the company Telefunken. Along with Lakihegy Tower, Hungary, Riga LVRTC Transmitter, Latvia and Lisnagarvey Radio Mast, Northern Ireland it was one of the few Blaw-Knox towers in Europe until its demolition on 16 September 2020. The transmitter was shut down at 22:00 UTC on 31 December 2014. Transmitter internal structure The modulation method used by the transmitter in Vakarel is called a tube voltage modulation and was successfully used in all powerful AM transmitters at that time. The Vakarel transmitter is supplied with electricity from a substation in Samokov via a medium voltage transmission line. The transmitter uses six stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trud (Bulgarian Newspaper)
''Trud'' (, ), is a Bulgarian tabloid daily newspaper. The newspaper's first issue came out on 1 March 1936, making it one of the oldest Bulgarian newspapers still in existence. From 3 January 1994 to 31 December 2008 it was known as ''Dneven Trud'' (Дневен Труд, ''Daily Labor''). History The first issue of the newspaper came on 1 March 1936 and it was the first weekly newspaper in Bulgaria. It was delivered only to the big towns Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna in the first year. From 20 October 1944, the name of the newspaper was changed to "Flag of the Labor". On 15 September 1946, the newspaper took back its name. From 3 January 1994, it became an independent Bulgarian newspaper. ''Trud'' was a syndicate organ until 1992 when it became a private-owned daily. Its editor-in-chief is Tosho Toshev. The owner of ''Trud'' which is published in tabloid format A tabloid is a newspaper format characterized by its compact size, smaller than a broadsheet. The term originates fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Art Gallery, Bulgaria
The National Art Gallery (, ''Natsionalna hudozhestvena galeriya'') is Bulgaria's national gallery, and houses over 50,000 pieces of Bulgarian art. History It is located on Battenberg Square in the capital city of Sofia, occupying most of the historic Ottoman Chelebi mosque and Ottoman konak, which were converted into the imposing edifice of the former royal palace of Bulgaria. Royal Palace The royal palace, a typical example of Second Empire architecture with chateauesque connotations, was constructed in two stages, the first lasting between 1880 and 1882 during the rule of Knyaz Alexander Battenberg, when Austro-Hungarian architects under Viktor Rumpelmayer worked on the building. It was inaugurated on 26 December 1882 and constituted the representative part of the palace, encompassing the administrative ground floor, the ballrooms above and the service third floor. The second stage, during Knyaz (later Tsar) Ferdinand, saw the construction of the palace's east wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 Bulgarian Coup D'état
The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934, also known as the 19 May coup d'état (, ''Devetnadesetomayski prevrat''), was a ''coup d'état'' in the Kingdom of Bulgaria carried out by the '' Zveno'' military organization and the Military Union with the aid of the Bulgarian Army. It overthrew the government of the wide Popular Bloc coalition and replaced it with one under Kimon Georgiev. History The Popular Bloc, which had held power since 1931, consisted of the Democratic Party, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU) " Vrabcha 1", the National Liberal Party and the Radical Democratic Party. Although it did not abolish the restrictive laws introduced by the former government of the Democratic Accord and it did not change the way the police functioned, it was met with hostility from right-wing forces such as the Military Union (led by Damyan Velchev), Zveno and Aleksandar Tsankov's National Social Movement, of which the most active were the Zveno activists. After a Military Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; ) also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1933 to 1949, and the first leader of the Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949. From 1935 to 1943, he was the General Secretary of the Communist International. Born in western Bulgaria, Dimitrov worked as a printer and trade unionist during his youth. He was elected to the National Assembly (Bulgaria), Bulgarian parliament as a socialist during the World War I, First World War and campaigned against his country's involvement in the conflict, which led to his brief imprisonment for sedition. In 1919, he helped found the Bulgarian Communist Party. Two years later, he moved to the Soviet Union and was elected to the executive committee of Profintern. In 1923, Dimitrov led a September Uprising, failed communist uprising against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichstag Fire
The Reichstag fire (, ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00p.m., when a Berlin fire station received an alarm call. By the time police and firefighters arrived, the structure was engulfed in flames. The police conducted a thorough search inside the building and found Van der Lubbe, who was arrested. After the Fire Decree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
