Editor Pick
Primary School
- August 21, 2000
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Amanda from London, United Kingdom
This was the second school in the whole country to begin teaching children in the Bulgarian language. This might seem like an unimportant linguistic point, but just consider the recent fuss in California, or Tower Hamlets in London about the language children are taught, and you will further understand the political implications such decisions can have. In Bulgaria, the Turkish Empire had been trying to assimilate the local languages and customs, in order to strength the empire. Koprivshtitsa is proud of its important role in the fight for independence, both in linguistic and armed struggle terms, because the first major uprising against the occupiers began here in the 1870s.
From journal Idyllic Koprivshtitsa