2nd millennium

Defence Minister Mihai Fifor, announced on Tuesday having signed an order for the establishment of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Military Collegiate High School.

"This collegiate high school in Constanta takes over the beautiful tradition of the School of Marine Children of 1881," Fifor wrote in a Facebook post.

Most people in Greece associate the name Candia with the Cretan wine brand. Fewer know of the 21-year Siege of Candia in the 1600s that resulted in Crete passing from Venetian control into the hands of the Ottomans or that Candia was the name of present-day Iraklio.

At the trial of former Croatian soldier Rajko Krickovic, accused of killing three Serb civilians after the Croatian Army's Operation Storm in 1995, a former local police chief said the killings were not investigated.

Senior British ministers held an urgent meeting March 7 to discuss the suspected poisoning of a former Russian spy, as tensions rise with Moscow over his collapse outside a shopping center.

Following a three-day-visit to Bulgaria, the head of Russian Orthodox Church has expressed annoyance over the way Bulgarian leaders have expressed gratitude to a number of nations - not just Russia - for liberating Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in the 19th century.

Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Cyril will visit Bulgaria in early March. This is what the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zaharova said.

Boris Yeltsin's Russia was one of the first countries to recognize the southernmost state to split from Yugoslavia as "Republic of Macedonia." The Kremlin's stance back then was dictated by the misguided impression that it could revive the pan-Slavist policy of the tzars.

The Melbourne-based Greek community newspaper Neos Kosmos celebrated its 60th anniversary with a special birthday edition published on December 7, illustrating its enduring appeal despite the challenges of the digital age.

Archaeologists have discovered a huge water cistern plastered on the inside with pink waterproof mortar in the fortress of Rusocastro, a major stronghold which changed hands many times between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires in the Middle Ages, and whose ruins are stiuated in today's Burgas District in Southeast Bulgaria.

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Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria, Greece and other churches observing the Gregorian calendar are celebrating Thursday the holiday of St Demetrius. 

Due to his Slavic origin the saint is honoured by all Slavic peoples and for the Bulgarians and Serbs he is the patron of the entire Slavonic world.