Origin of the Bulgarian flag

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What is the origin story of the Bulgarian flag? I always see several theories about it, instead of a definitive answer.

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The National Tricolor of Bulgaria was first legalized by the Constituent Assembly in Veliko Tarnovo on March 26, 1879. Its type is precisely defined in Art. 23 of the Tarnovo Constitution. According to historical data and the majority of Bulgarian researchers-historians, the choice and order of colors of our national flag is associated with the famous flag of Stiliana Paraskevova or the so-called Braille tricolor.
The idea for its creation belongs to the Bulgarian patriot from Braila Ivan Paraskevov, and its production and embroidery was done by his daughter Stiliana Paraskevova. In the autumn of 1876, when it became clear among the Bulgarian emigration that a new Russo-Turkish war would soon begin, the BRCC in Bucharest discussed sewing a flag to be presented to Bulgarian volunteers who would take part in the looming war. Ivan Paraskevov undertakes the responsible commitment with his personal funds to create a flag to donate to the emerging Bulgarian volunteer militia. He considered the idea of ​​this flag on his own and supplied the necessary very expensive materials from Vienna: thick silk fabric - satin, small natural pearls and purl threads, a specially made handle and a metal top). He commissioned his eldest 14-year-old daughter, Stiliana, to make and embroider the flag. A small room in his home where she works has been set aside, keeping it secret for fear of being thwarted by Turkish spies. As a model for the beautiful embroidered crowned golden lion, she uses the metal lion-badge of a Chetnik hat. This flag, known to historians as the Braille Tricolor or the Flag of Stiliana Paraskevova, Ivan Paraskevov and his daughter personally presented on May 8, 1877 in Ploiesti to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army - Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, who promised to present it to the IV Volunteer Company. . The flag was flown on August 30, 1878 at a military parade in Plovdiv on the occasion of the manor day of the Russian emperor. After the parade it was preserved and later stored in the Palace of the Bulgarian Prince in the new capital Sofia.

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The white, green and red colors were determined as Bulgarian flag before 1877.
Flag of Filip Totyu's band, 1867

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For those who can read Bulgarian, you can take a look at this topic:

https://bg-nacionalisti.org/BNF/index.php?topic=9.0

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wow, so the Bulgarian flag was created in Romania by Bulgarians in Braila and Bucharest? awesome. on the thread linked in the post above I also saw about the more recent migration of Bulgarians to Wallachian cities (first half of 19th century), while over the previous two or three centuries many Bulgarians (called "Serbs" in Wallachia) moved to various rural areas of Wallachia (today's southern Romania).

the Bulgarian flag is very elegant, I've always liked it, saw a huge one in Varna

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Braila, Tulcha were the seats of the Bulgarian revolutionaries from the second half of the 19th century. Northern Dobrudja is the first territory south of the Danube on which the Bulgarian state was established by the ancient Bulgarians led by Asparukh during their migration from the steppes of the northern Black Sea to the lands of the Balkan Peninsula where their descendants have lived for more than 1,330 years.
After the conquest of the Balkans until 1877, the area was within the limits of the Ottoman Empire, with a significant part of the Bulgarian population, a part of the Bulgarian land delineated by the Sultan's firman, which defined the boundaries of the Bulgarian Exarchate in 1870. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, which liberated Bulgaria, through the San Stefano Peace Treaty of February 19/March 3, 1878, in order to ensure access to the Danube River, the Russian Empire took the territory of Bessarabia from Romania, giving it designates Northern Dobrudja for compensation. In the San Stefano Peace Treaty of March 3, 1878, the border between Bulgaria and Romania was defined as follows:
"It will leave the seashore at Mangalia and, following the southern borders of the Tulcan Sanjak, will reach the Danube above Rasovo." The Romanian public rejects the Russian proposal.
On November 14, King Carol I sent the following message in Bulgarian to the Dobruja population: "With the Treaty of Berlin, the European great powers joined your homeland to Romania. We will not enter as conquerors within your borders, thus defined by Europe...". However, the situation was legitimized by the Berlin Congress and the Dobruja issue became a major problem of Balkan relations. The fact that from 1878 to 1912 the Dobruja question did not cause serious complications in the relations between Bulgaria and Romania, but after the Balkan War, and most of all during the Inter-Allied War, Romania attacked Bulgaria with unguarded borders and an unguarded Northern Bulgaria took away Southern Dobrudja/returned in 1940 again to the borders of Bulgaria/, which marked the beginning of the conflicts between the two countries.

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Samara flag, the best one



The flag, woven by local nuns, was given to the Bulgarian volunteers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 by the citizens of the Russian city of Samara on 18 May 1877. The symbol gained notoriety after it escaped capture by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Stara Zagora, where many Bulgarian soldiers died in order to prevent the flag from being captured by the Ottoman forces.

The flag, originally intended for the rebels of the April Uprising, was handed to the Bulgarians near Ploieşti on 18 May, having been transported through Chişinău, where it was on 1 May. A delegation from the city of Samara, headed by Efim Kozhevnikov and Pyotr Alabin, handed the Samara flag to the volunteers in a special ceremony, with the flag being attached to its pole using gold nails. Tseko Petkov, a leader of a band in the Troyan part of the Balkan Mountains, exclaimed:

"May God let this holy flag pass from end to end through the long-suffering Bulgarian land. May our mothers, wives and sisters wipe their sorrowful eyes with it, and after it may durable peace come, and prosperity!"

The flag, entrusted to the 3rd battalion of the Bulgarian volunteer corps, was part of the battles at Stara Zagora and Nova Zagora, where a number of flag-bearers perished protecting it (including Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel Kalitin), as well as the Battles of Shipka Pass and Sheynovo.

The Samara flag was initially kept in Radomir, from where its last bearer, Pavel Korchev, descended. It was later housed in the royal palace in Sofia (now the National Art Gallery) starting in 1881. In 1946, the flag was transferred to the National Museum of Military History (NMMH). It has remained there ever since, preserved in a chamber under special conditions.

Two copies of the flag were made in 1958, one of which was sent to the Central Military Museum in Russia. Another two were subsequently created, one of which was made in the Mihail Maletski NMMH restoration workshop by in 1978. The nuns of the Russian-founded Knyazhevo Nunnery of the Shroud of the Most Holy Mother of God created another precise replica in 2006.

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Braila, Tulcha were the seats of the Bulgarian revolutionaries from the second half of the 19th century. Northern Dobrudja is the first territory south of the Danube on which the Bulgarian state was established by the ancient Bulgarians led by Asparukh during their migration from the steppes of the northern Black Sea to the lands of the Balkan Peninsula where their descendants have lived for more than 1,330 years.
After the conquest of the Balkans until 1877, the area was within the limits of the Ottoman Empire, with a significant part of the Bulgarian population, a part of the Bulgarian land delineated by the Sultan's firman, which defined the boundaries of the Bulgarian Exarchate in 1870. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, which liberated Bulgaria, through the San Stefano Peace Treaty of February 19/March 3, 1878, in order to ensure access to the Danube River, the Russian Empire took the territory of Bessarabia from Romania, giving it designates Northern Dobrudja for compensation. In the San Stefano Peace Treaty of March 3, 1878, the border between Bulgaria and Romania was defined as follows:
"It will leave the seashore at Mangalia and, following the southern borders of the Tulcan Sanjak, will reach the Danube above Rasovo." The Romanian public rejects the Russian proposal.
On November 14, King Carol I sent the following message in Bulgarian to the Dobruja population: "With the Treaty of Berlin, the European great powers joined your homeland to Romania. We will not enter as conquerors within your borders, thus defined by Europe...". However, the situation was legitimized by the Berlin Congress and the Dobruja issue became a major problem of Balkan relations. The fact that from 1878 to 1912 the Dobruja question did not cause serious complications in the relations between Bulgaria and Romania, but after the Balkan War, and most of all during the Inter-Allied War, Romania attacked Bulgaria with unguarded borders and an unguarded Northern Bulgaria took away Southern Dobrudja/returned in 1940 again to the borders of Bulgaria/, which marked the beginning of the conflicts between the two countries.

Bulgarians inhabited all the western shore of the Black Sea from somewhere NW of Istanbul to today's Rep. Moldova. up to today they do, except for Dobrudja, this gap being artificially done by the displacement of the population. Dobrudja they shared with Crimean Tatars, Russian Lipovans and Ukrainian Khokhols, who still inhabit it, and weren't deported, just mostly assimilated into Romanians. I wish relations were closer between Romania and Bulgaria now and some of these recent events be acknowledged by the Romanian side - I myself come from a minority community in Romania, the Carpathian Russians (Ukrainians), so I'm accustomed to Romania's assimilation policies. other than Dobrudja Bulgarians, many Bulgarians assimilated into Romanian population in Wallachia along the previous 3 centuries, constantly moving to Wallachia where they were known as gardeners - growing and selling the best vegetables. southern Romanians of some specific regions descend from Bulgarians in part

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Bulgarians inhabited all the western shore of the Black Sea from somewhere NW of Istanbul to today's Rep. Moldova. up to today they do, except for Dobrudja, this gap being artificially done by the displacement of the population. Dobrudja they shared with Crimean Tatars, Russian Lipovans and Ukrainian Khokhols, who still inhabit it, and weren't deported, just mostly assimilated into Romanians. I wish relations were closer between Romania and Bulgaria now and some of these recent events be acknowledged by the Romanian side - I myself come from a minority community in Romania, the Carpathian Russians (Ukrainians)

Lipoveni from Dobruja or those from Bucovina?