In 1966, Seattle-area ethnographer Martin Koenig made the first of six trips to Bulgaria to study folk dance and music there. What he found was a rural society already in the process of vanishing.

On the night of October 31, streets around the world glow with carved pumpkins, costumed figures, and the echoes of ancient ...

With the blessing of his grandfather, King Simeon II, and his parents, Prince Simeon received the insignia of the Youth Guard ...

This is the first of a three-part series by Dessislava Dimitrova and Nevena Borisova about how women entrepreneurs drive the revival of culinary traditions in different parts of Bulgaria, as part of ...

WELLS — Every Saturday this school year, a group of teachers and students have gathered at the Wells Elementary School voluntarily to pursue a particular type of education. The students, ranging in ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Plovdiv, the oldest city in Bulgaria, has been officially inaugurated as the European Capital of Culture for 2019. Some 50,000 people gathered on a main square Saturday to watch ...

NOVO SELO TRAINING AREA, Bulgaria - Novo Selo Training Area support staff with U.S. Army and Bulgarian service members shared Bulgarian Christmas traditions at local schools in Kamen and Mokren, ...

ZHERAVNA, Bulgaria -- With no cell phones in sight, tens of thousands of people danced through the night after the Zheravna festival reached its fire-circling crescendo on August 19. The International ...

In a emotional ceremony at the close of an anti-Semitism conference in Berlin last year, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy presented his German counterpart, Joschka Fischer, with the yellow ...