The mayor of Straldzha municipality in Bulgaria, Atanas Kirov, declared a partial state of emergency following a series of fires that severely affected the area, especially in the villages of Atolovo, ...

BASHI BAZOUKS SPREAD TERROR IN BULGARIA; Many Villages Have Lost a Third of Their Male Population. Any Peasant Venturing to Resist Them Maltreated or Denounced as a Rebel -- Villagers in Despair.

In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen, many brick houses sit empty. Their tile roofs are falling in. Gergana Daskalova, an ecologist who spent summers here with her grandparents as a ...

A century ago, a thousand people lived in this village. Today, there are only about 200. People left for jobs in Bulgaria’s cities, or abroad. Their heirs may still own land around the village where ...