The kukeri festival (pictured) is a colorful tradition in which men wear intricate costumes and masks depicting mythical ...

This mountain city in Bulgaria is known as the Machu Picchu of Europe but is less crowded and easier to get to, while still full of ancient mysteries.

Amid talk in Bulgaria of reintroducing compulsory military service, a new photo exhibition exposes the "labor battalions" used by the communist authorities, in part, to control the country's ...

This story appear in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... who started surveying the seabed off the coast of Bulgaria. Partnering with maritime archaeologists ...

Nearly 400 former members of four successive Bulgarian governments were being tried before two “People’s Courts.” At one court, which sat in the big hall of the University of Sofia ...

(JTA) — Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel did not attend a conference on Bulgarian Holocaust history last week, in a move that organizers said displays her government’s attempts to whitewash ...

With the approval of a new coalition government, Bulgaria's parliament has ended a prolonged stretch of political instability, during which the country was largely governed by caretaker cabinets ...

SOFIA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament approved on Thursday a cabinet led by Rosen Zhelyazkov, a former parliament speaker, ending months of negotiations on the formation of a coalition ...