{"id":65158,"date":"2026-05-21T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=65158"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:50:11","slug":"golden-century-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=65158&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGolden Century\u201d awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65150 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-200x107.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-400x215.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-600x322.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-800x430.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-1200x645.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVG_3493-1536x825.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Academician Vasil Gyuzelev was awarded the Ministry of Culture\u2019s highest honor, the \u201cGolden Century\u201d (Zlaten vek) award (a necklace and a certificate). Minister Evtim Miloshev presented the awards at a ceremony held on May 20 in the Ballroom of the National Gallery \u2013 \u201cThe Palace.\u201d The Ministry of Culture\u2019s \u201cGolden Century\u201d awards were announced in honor of the upcoming Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic literature. A total of 40 artists and public figures from various fields of culture and the arts were honored.<\/p>\n<p>Acad. Vasil Gyuzelev is one of Bulgaria\u2019s most prominent historians, medievalists, and Byzantinists whose research places the Bulgarian Middle Ages within the global context of European history.<\/p>\n<p>Among this year\u2019s honorees is also Prof. Alexander Donev, DSc, member of the \u201cScreen Arts\u201d department at the Institute of Art Studies at BAS. He was awarded the \u201cGolden Age\u201d \u2013 Seal of Tsar Simeon the Great \u2013 in gold, along with a certificate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65148 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-141x150.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-200x213.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-400x426.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-600x639.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-768x818.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-800x852.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-962x1024.jpg 962w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-1200x1277.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3-1443x1536.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-3.jpg 1905w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Academician Vasil Gyuzelev was awarded the Ministry of Culture\u2019s highest honor, the \u201cGolden Century\u201d (Zlaten vek) award (a necklace and a certificate). Minister Evtim Miloshev presented the awards at a ceremony held on May 20 in the Ballroom of the National Gallery \u2013 \u201cThe Palace.\u201d The Ministry of Culture\u2019s \u201cGolden Century\u201d awards were announced in honor of the upcoming Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic literature. A total of 40 artists and public figures from various fields of culture and the arts were honored. Acad. Vasil Gyuzelev is one of Bulgaria\u2019s most prominent historians, medievalists, and Byzantinists whose research places the Bulgarian Middle Ages within the global context of European history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=65158&#038;lang=en\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":65151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65159,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65158\/revisions\/65159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}