10 Leva Liberation

Issued to mark the 130th anniversary of Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, a conflict that ended five centuries of Ottoman administration over the Bulgarian lands. The Treaty of Berlin that same year, however, walked back much of what the earlier Treaty of San Stefano had granted — partitioning the initially envisioned Greater Bulgaria and leaving a substantial Bulgarian population outside the new principality's borders, a political wound that shaped Bulgarian foreign policy for decades.