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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/03/vakali-rocks-packed-ndk-auditorium/">Vakali Rocks a Packed NDK Auditorium</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-03-24T12:28:53Z">Thu Mar 24, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
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<a href="/tags/ndk/" rel="tag">NDK</a>, <a href="/tags/sofia/" rel="tag">Sofia</a>, <a href="/tags/vakali/" rel="tag">Vakali</a>
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<p>How do you write a review of a performance dance group that wears Viking costumes, uses bones to play their drums, and has pyrotechnics so badass that I could feel them twenty rows back in the audience? I was clapping so hard during <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VAKALI.group/" title="Vikali group on Facebook">Vakali’s</a> performance at the <a href="http://www.ndk.bg/">National Palace of Culture (NDK)</a> in Sofia last week that my hands <em>still hurt</em>?</p>
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alt="Vakali group (from their Facebook page)"/> <figcaption>
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<p>Vakali group (from their Facebook page)</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/03/village-gela-birthplace-orpheus/">Village of Gela, Birthplace of Orpheus</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-03-07T08:56:17Z">Mon Mar 07, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
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<a href="/tags/mountains/" rel="tag">Mountains</a>, <a href="/tags/orpheus/" rel="tag">Orpheus</a>, <a href="/tags/thrace/" rel="tag">Thrace</a>
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<p>As you drive into the village of Gela in southern Bulgaria a sign informs you that this is the birthplace of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus">Orpheus</a>, the legendary Thracian musician and poet. I’m not sure if it’s true, but who <em>wouldn’t</em> be able to “charm all living things and even stones” with their music if they were born in a village with such a view? These are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodope_Mountains">Rhodope Mountains</a> in the golden afternoon sunlight of early spring.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-serbian-cyrillic/">Beautiful Ligatures in Serbian Cyrillic</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-02-24T11:37:16Z">Wed Feb 24, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/language/" rel="category tag">Language</a>, <a href="/categories/travel/" rel="category tag">Travel</a>
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<p>Ligatures for “ль” and “нь” are unique to the Cyrillic alphabets of several Slavic languages in Southeastern Europe. We don’t have them in Bulgarian, so I can remember being confused the first time I saw them in Serbia. My confusion turned into fascination once I realized that their construction fused two characters that I knew how to use into one that we simply don’t have. You can see љ (<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lje">Lje</a></em>) on this road sign for Жељуша in Serbia (with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj%27s_Latin_alphabet">Serbo-Croatian Latin</a> representation below it):</p>
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<p>Road sign for Жељуша town in Serbia showing the Cyrillic ligature for “ль”</p>
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