Articles written by Rumyana Mokanova

Engelbert Broda and Melita Norwood were top Soviet spies in Great Britain during WWII and the Cold War. They both contributed to Moscow's nuclear advance.

Jul 20, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

St Paul of the Cross was an 18th-century Catholic mystic from Italy and the founder of the Passionist Congregation.

Jul 6, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Known as the Priest of Solidarity, Fr Popieluszko was brutally murdered by communist secret police agents in 1984.

Jul 1, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Bishop Bossilkov was one of the Bulgarian Catholic priests killed by the communists in 1950s.

Jun 20, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Pazvantoglu was an Ottoman governor of Vidin (Bulgaria) who established an independent rule and turned himself into the sultan's worst nightmare.

Jun 18, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

The group of the co-patrons of Europe includes three women - St Bridget of Sweden, St Catherine of Siena and St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.

Jun 14, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Regarded as the founder of the western monasticism, Saint Benedict is also proclaimed the original patron saint of Europe.

Jun 12, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

The two brothers, also known as "Apostles of the Slavs", devised the Slavonic alphabet and overthrew the trilingual dogma.

Jun 10, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Captured in Sudan in 1994, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is currently serving a life sentence in France.

Feb 21, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Forensic analyses of the remains in the gladiators' graveyard in Ephesus revealed that they were hard training vegetarians who enjoyed advanced medical care.

Feb 6, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

The former First Lady of Yugoslavia has led a lonely life since she was accused of planning a coup

Jan 10, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Enver Hoxha's wife was one of the most powerful women in the Balkans for more than forty years.

Jan 2, 2010 - Rumyana Mokanova

Many new roads, forts and towns changed the landscape in the Balkans during the Roman rule.

Nov 29, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Archaeological discoveries highlighted the lavish lifestyle of the Thracian aristocracy under the Roman rule.

Nov 17, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Archaeologists are still searching for the lost city of Tylis, the capital of a short-lived Celtic tribal state established in the territory of modern Bulgaria in 279 BC.

Nov 8, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

The most famous treasure finds usually tell at least two intriguing stories - one of their own and the other of their discovery.

Nov 1, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Momentous archaeological discoveries reveal the existence of unknown lost ancient civilizations which preceded the Thracian culture.

Oct 25, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Nestinarstvo, the Bulgarian Anastenaria, is among 76 elements inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Oct 4, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Bogomilism was simply a synthesis of the ancient spiritual wisdom and the moral purity of the authentic Christianity

Sep 20, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Nowadays Perperikon is one of the authentic ancient stone cities which impressed Herodotus, Suetonius Tranquillus and other historians many centuries ago

Sep 12, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Sixty-five years after his departure, thousands of people still pay homage to the Master Beinsa Douno, a prophet of the New Age.

Sep 5, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova

Recently unearthed treasure troves might revise the scientific outlook on the social role of women in Thrace and the local nobility's economic independence from Rome

Aug 29, 2009 - Rumyana Mokanova