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For five hundred years Bulgaria was nowhere on the map. For five hundred years nobody knew anything about the Bulgarian nation. Five hundred years of darkness and sadness. And then…. He appeared. Vassil Ivanov Kunchev. Levski. … For nine years he roamed

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  1. For five hundred years Bulgaria was nowhere on the map. For five hundred years nobody knew anything about the Bulgarian nation. Five hundred years of darkness and sadness. And then…..

  2. He appeared Vassil Ivanov Kunchev

  3. Levski … For nine years he roamed Without sleep or rest, without hearth or home, Changing his name, under many disguises, Stout-hearted, ready for sacrifices, And brought understanding support and light To slaves in a slave were the words he uttered, Full of sweet hope that soared and fluttered. Often he spoke of the struggle, revolt As imminent of which was as yet unsettled. He tested the brave to find men of mettle To carry the glorious enterprise through; For him every hearer was brother, too. He turned a clear gaze to the shadowy future. He loved his dear country and joyed in its beauty. A rover he was, and simple as a child, Frugal as a hermit fasting in the wild. Ivan Vazov

  4. He was born in 1837 in Karlovo - a small town in the middle of the Balkan. His family was very poor and first he began to study at a school in Karlovo. But his uncle told him to become a monk in the monastery and the young Vassil took the name of Ignatii.

  5. If I win, my own people win. If I lose, I lose myself only.

  6. He loved his country and his nation and he suffered for them. He thought that the nation could be saved from the slavery by way of struggle not by way of prayers. For this reason in 1862 he cast off the cassock and went to Belgrade, where he enlisted in the First Bulgarian legion, which was created for the sake of the liberation of Bulgaria by Rakovsky. After the dismissal of the First legion, Levski returned to Bulgaria and became a teacher.

  7. In the spring of 1867 he was elected to become the standard-bearer in the band of Panayot Hitov. With the band he came into Bulgaria and for 3 months he went around the country and woke up the people for a fight.

  8. Dreams Levski understood that the preparation for a National revolt couldn’t be made outside the country and that the people must take part in it, and the whole nation must prepare it. For this purpose he went around the country and talked to people about the Freedom and about the Fight. Between 1868 and 1872 he walked round the country, going from one village to another and from one town to another, and established revolutionary committees. In these committees he inspired and aroused the people for the battle.

  9. For several years only he created a wide web of committees, taught people to fight and desire Freedom.

  10. He puts the civil and political rights and the freedom of nation and personality on the basis of the future republic. He approbates one of the main ideas of bourgeoisie-democratic thoughts – the idea of civil and political equality and borders of the humans rights and freedom.

  11. All of Levski`s ideals: equality between nations, equality between people in political attitude and freedom of religion, are subordinated to the rights of human personality. He claims that only in one democratic society the person will live like human being, like “God has said to live the Man.”

  12. Bulgarians, Turks, Jews and others will be equal in all respects – in religion, nation or civil rights; everybody will be treated according to one law, which will be chosen by all people.

  13. All Bulgarians – young and old, poor and rich, were dreaming for creation a “democratic republic”, in which “we will have one flag with the words “sheer and sacred republic.” In the consciousness of the Bulgarians “republic” means “power of the nation” and this idea inculcates in people`s hearts.

  14. Levski was betrayed by a monk, and he was captured in Kukrina, where he had gone to collect the committee’s archive.

  15. On 18th of February, 1873 he was hanged near Sofia. The News for his death made the entire Bulgarian nation suffer deeply.

  16. Every year on the day of his death the entire Bulgarian nation gives honor to him. Nowadays he is the biggest Bulgarian hero!

  17. The greatest Bulgarian writers and poets have written many stories and poems about him.

  18. O, you my mother, My Native land, Why is your cry so sad And heart-rending! And you, O Raven, accursed bird, On whose grave croak You of ill impending. Weep on, weep on! Near Sofia town A ghastly gallows I have seen standing. And your own son Bulgaria, There with dreadful force is hanging. The Hanging of Vassil Levski Hristo Botev

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