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Aleksandar Stamboliyski
Leader of the Bulgarian National Peasants’ Party, and Prime Minister from 1919 to 1923, Aleksandar Stamboliyski presided over a radical government that promised fair land distribution and a revival of village life. [...]



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Corner of ul. Rakovski and ul. Vrabcha

Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi
Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi
The Georgiev brothers made their fortunes in nineteenth-century Odessa, then used their wealth to fund the establishment of Bulgarian-language schools. [...]



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Sofia University, bul. Tsar Osvoboditel 15

Monument to Holy Wisdom
Monument to Holy Wisdom
Once occupied by a behemoth-sized statue of Lenin, this prime city-centre site was left vacant throughout the 1990s, and [...]



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pl. Nezavisimost

Monument to the Tsar Liberator
Monument to the Tsar Liberator
This 14-metre-high lump of bronze designed by Italian artist Arnoldo Zocci honours Russian Tsar Alexandаr II who, by declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in 1877, liberated Bulgaria in the process. [...]



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pl. Narodno sabranie

Petko and Pencho Slaveykovi
Petko and Pencho Slaveykovi
Bulgaria’s foremost father-and-son literary duo perch on a bench beside the square that, appropriately enough, now hosts Sofia’s biggest book market. [...]



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pl. Slaveykov

Popa
Popa
This rather inconspicuous statue of a bearded ecclesiastic honours Patriarch Euthymius (Patriarh Evtimiy in Bulgarian), the fourteenth-century church leader who presided over a flowering of Bulgarian culture before being led into captivity by the Ottoman Turks in 1393. [...]



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corner of ul. Graf Ignatiev and bul. Patriarh Evtimiy

Stefan Stambolov
Prime Minister from 1887 to 1894, Stefan Stambolov was the most talented – but also the most controversial – politician of his generation, pursuing pro-western liberal policies while at the same time locking up opponents and silencing the press. [...]



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Corner of bul. Tsar Osvoboditel and ul. Rakovski

Sts.Cyril and Methodius
Sts.Cyril and Methodius
Standing proudly in front of the colonnaded façade of the National Library, these ninth-century monks from Thessaloniki are celebrated for their invention of an entirely new alphabet, which they used to translate the holy gospels into the Slav languages. [...]



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bul. Vasil Levski 88