site.btaUPDATED Military Tattoo Marks 120th Anniversary of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising

A military tattoo marked the 120th anniversary of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising on Wednesday evening.

It was held at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia, and attended by Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, who chairs the National Committee to commemorate the anniversary, President Rumen Radev, who reviewed the troops and delivered an address, and Vice President Iliana Iotova. 

The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising broke out on August 2, 1903 for the liberation of the Bulgarian population in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace, which after Bulgaria’s liberation in 1878 remained within the territories of the Ottoman Empire under the Berlin Treaty.