Liberation Day in Bulgaria (2016)

**Liberation Day in Bulgaria was observed on March 3, 2016**, marking the national holiday *Ден на освобождението на България от Османско робство* (Day of Liberation from Ottoman Oppression). Celebrated nationwide, this date commemorates Bulgaria’s formal emancipation from over 500 years of Ottoman rule, following the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) and the signing of the Treaty of San Stefano. |*Ден на освобождението на България от Османско робство*—literally "Day of Bulgaria’s Liberation from Ottoman Slavery." |No, it is observed across all of Bulgaria as a national public holiday.