With celebrations throughout the country today we mark the 147th anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria.
On March 3, 1878. the San Stefano Preliminary (Preliminary) Peace Treaty was signed between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, which put an end to the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). and settled, albeit incompletely, the establishment of the Third Bulgarian State after nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule in Bulgaria.
It finally put an end to Ottoman slavery.
The treaty was signed in San Stefano by Count Nikolai Ignatiev and Alexander Nelidov on the Russian side and by Foreign Minister Savfet Mehmed Pasha and Ambassador to Germany Sadullah Bey on the Ottoman Empire's side.
The territories of liberated Bulgaria were coordinated with the large scope of the Bulgarian Exarchate.
All enslaved Bulgarians were united in one huge state, which in the future would become the main goal and dream of many Bulgarian statesmen, monarchs and military men. The new state has the status of an autonomous principality and must be led by a monarch.
San Stefano Bulgaria is an emanation of the Bulgarian spirit and the Bulgarian ideal.