Nedelya Petkova

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Nedelya Petkova (1826 - 1894) was a Bulgarian education pioneer. In 1859 she began teaching girls and developed this into a school system for girls across the Bulgarian part of the Ottoman Empire, with hundreds of girls attending classes.

Nedelya Petkova, was also known as Grandma Nedelya or Baba Petkova. She studied in the monastery school of the “Holy presentation of the Blessed Virgin” convent in the town of Sopot.

Nedelya Petkova began as a teacher in Sofia, Samokov, Prilep, Ohrid, and Veles. She later founded the first Bulgarian girls’ schools in Prilep, Bitolya, Veles, Thessaloniki.

Government officials tried to stop her and she was arrested and her home searched for seditious books. Although put on trial she was released through lack of evidence and continued her campaign to educate women until her death in 1894

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