The Bulgarian Women's Union, a women's rights…

The Bulgarian Women's Union, a women's rights organization, is founded in 1901 by Vela Blagoeva, Ekaterina Karavelova, Anna Karima, Kina Konova, Julia Malinova, and Zheni Pateva, as an umbrella organization of the twenty-seven local women's organizations that have been established in Bulgaria since 1878.

The Union's founding is in answer to the limitations of women's education and access to university studies in the 1890s, with the goal to further women's intellectual development and participation.

It will be dissolved following the communist take over in Bulgaria in 1944.