"Christmas Eve (December 24) is the celebration I tend to enjoy more for some reason," says Teodora Barzakova of RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service. "It is the biggest holiday of its kind in Bulgaria….

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians have named Wham's "Last Christmas" the most annoying Christmas song ever. An advertising agency says nearly 19 percent of the 28,110 votes cast in an online ...

Whilst Bulgaria is primarily an Eastern Orthodox country, like many, Bulgarians celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, with celebrations starting weeks prior. Interestingly, Bulgaria is ...

Credit: PA Images / Valentina Petrova I am in Bulgaria for the Christmas and New Year holidays again and I am in a place that is supposedly my “home”, with my homophobic family who are ...

The lavish cakes and chocolates seen in Western Christmas celebrations are considered a rare luxury in Bulgaria, and many families still prepare simpler, traditional sweets.

Bulgaria’s first ever Christmas tree to appear in a private home dates back to 1879, just a year after it was liberated from the Ottoman Turkish Empire, whereas the first featuring of a Christmas tree ...

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 ...

Celebrity chef and actor Uti Bachvarov was going to do the honours in a bid to reacquaint Plovdiv city-slickers with one of Bulgaria's oldest Christmas culinary traditions - a meat feast that ends ...

On 19-21 December, Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski will be hosting a Christmas market organized by the Russian Center. This event is organized to support children, who need expensive therapy, ...

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