{"id":1873,"date":"2010-01-01T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/uncategorized\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-28\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:10:43","slug":"on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Bulgaria: March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 28 holds two very different kinds of event in Bulgaria&#8217;s history \u2014 one an act of civic solidarity, the other a moment of state violence that demands careful and honest remembrance.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>March 28, 1921 \u2014 The Association of the Bulgarian Blind Is Established<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On March 28, 1921, the Association of the Bulgarian Blind was established in Sofia. The organization \u2014 later renamed the Union of the Blind in Bulgaria \u2014 became part of the country&#8217;s developing network of advocacy, social support, and civic representation for people with visual impairments. Its founding mattered because disability had long been treated as a private misfortune rather than a public concern requiring institutional response.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of wars and social hardship, such organizations helped make accessibility, employment, and recognition into civic and legal questions. March 28 marks a step in the slow process by which modern states and civil societies took responsibility for the full range of their members \u2014 not charity, but organized claim-making on behalf of people who needed it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>March 28, 1973 \u2014 Clashes Take Place in Kornitsa during Forced Renaming<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On March 28, 1973, violent clashes erupted in the village of Kornitsa during the communist regime&#8217;s forced name-change campaign against Bulgarian Muslims. According to BTA&#8217;s historical calendar, Interior Ministry officers were sent to the village and met strong resistance; five people were killed and many more were wounded. The episode was part of a broader pattern of coercive assimilation that violated personal identity, religious practice, and community belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Kornitsa is a name that carries weight precisely because it represents something the regime tried to erase: the refusal of people to accept a state-imposed identity. March 28 requires honest remembrance \u2014 a date about resistance, trauma, and the human cost of a policy built on compelled uniformity.<\/p>\n<p>More of Bulgaria&#8217;s March: <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-27\/\">March 27<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-29\/\">March 29<\/a>. Explore the country&#8217;s landscapes and culture in our <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/category\/bulgaria\/\">Bulgaria guides<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/category\/from-above\/\">Bulgaria From Above<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in Bulgarian history: the Association of the Bulgarian Blind was established in 1921, and clashes took place in Kornitsa in 1973 during forced renaming of Bulgarian Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-this-day-in-bulgaria","latest_post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On This Day in 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