The Bessarabian Bulgarians of Moldova: A Two-Hundred-Year-Old Community Between Sofia and Chișinău

In a building in central Chișinău that few tourists notice, the Hristo Botev Library holds nearly 28,000 volumes, more than 6,000 of them in Bulgarian. Around 130 children and young people study the language there each year. Their teacher, Associate Professor Nadezhda Kara, has been giving these lessons for 37 years, since 1988....