Bulgaria reappropriated the Cyrillic alphabet, celebrating “Bulgarian Alphabet Day”

This year, the Day of Slavic Literature in Bulgaria, celebrated by many Slavic countries, was renamed once again, giving the Bulgarian origin to Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius.

This was done so that neighboring North Macedonia would not lay claim to the names of the holy "Slovenian teachers," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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This year, for the first time, Bulgaria celebrated the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and Slavic literature. Although earlier this holiday in Bulgaria also had a unique name - the Day of Bulgarian Education, Culture and Slavic Literature.

Now, the Bulgarian political elite has made adjustments to the name of the holiday, allowing, in their opinion, to reject the encroachments of North Macedonia, which allegedly wants to appropriate the Equal-to-the-Apostles teachers to itself. Earlier in Bulgaria they managed to call the Cyrillic alphabet the “Bulgarian alphabet”, declaring that the Russians and Serbs simply appropriated it.

It should be noted that such fabrications of the Bulgarian nationalists who are at the head of Bulgaria are based on myths close to the myths of modern Ukrainian “historians”. It is known for certain that Cyril and Methodius were born on the territory of the Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), in the Greek city of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki), and, apparently, were Greeks, although there is a version that they belonged to the South Slavic tribes assimilated into the Roman environment.

At the same time, the activities of the enlighteners were mainly concentrated on the territory of the Roman Empire, as well as in Great Moravia; they also went on a spiritual mission to Khazaria. Therefore, the attempt of modern Bulgaria to appropriate the Cyrillic alphabet looks very strange.

In Sofia, celebrations traditionally took place near the monument to Cyril and Methodius in front of the National Library bearing their names. The wreath-laying ceremony was attended by President Rumen Radev, Vice President Iliana Jotova and Acting Prime Minister Stefan Yanev. There was also a children's parade. A festive procession was organized in Plovdiv.