The Bulgarian national revival takes place in…

1792 CE to 1803 CE

The Bulgarian national revival takes place in the larger context of Christian resistance to Turkish occupation of Eastern and Central Europe—a cause whose momentum increases as the Ottoman Empire crumbles from within.

Russia fights a series of wars with the Turks between 1676 and 1878, and is given the right to protect Christians living under Ottoman rule in treaties signed in 1774 and 1791.

Those treaties grant semiautonomy to the Romanian regions of Wallachia and Moldavia, which give hope that Russia might provide similar help to Bulgaria during the kurdzhaliistvo.

Intellectual ties between Bulgaria and Russia promote the adoption of Russian revolutionary thought along with Western influences.

In 1804 Sofronii offers the help of the entire Bulgarian people to Russian armies fighting the Turks and moving toward Bulgarian territory.

By 1811 a special volunteer army of several thousand Bulgarians has been formed, in the hope that Russian success against the Turks will liberate Bulgaria.

Although the Russians do not aid the Bulgarians directly at this time, Russia will remain crucial to Bulgarian foreign relations from this time to the late twentieth century.

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Sofia > Sofija > Serdica Grad Sofiya Bulgaria View →

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Sophronius of Vratsa View →

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Bulgarians (South Slavs) View → Romanians View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Bulgaria, Ottoman View → Ottoman Empire View → Turkish people View → Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Russian Empire View →

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Russo-Turkish War of 1686–1700 View → Russo-Ottoman War of 1710-11 View → Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) View → Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 View → French Revolution View → Russo-Turkish War of 1806-12 View →

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