Bai Ganio

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Бай Ганьо (Bai Ganio or Baj Ganjo) is a fictional character created by Bulgarian author Aleko Konstantinov. He is considered an exemplary image of the progressive but yet uneducated middle class Bulgarian from the end of the 19th century. He is a Bulgarian with a variety of qualities: strength, courage, boldness but also ignorance, trickery and egoism.

The character has become an inspiration for a number of movies picturing his adventures in Bulgaria and Western Europe. Konstantinov was inspired to create Bai Ganio during a visit to Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. (Neuberger)

Today Bai Ganio is a synonym of the negative features of the "Balkan behavior"... e.g. somebody behaves like Bai Ganio

The book "Bai Ganio" is a satire of the dark side of Bulgarians, compared to West European nations^{[citation needed]}.