Ekaterina Karavelova ( bg, Екатерина Каравелова), (21 October 1860 in Rouschuk – 1 April 1947 in

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), was a

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n educator, translator, publicist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She was the founder of the cultural women's organization ''Maika'' and its chairperson in 1899-1929, Vice chairperson of the

Bulgarian Women's Union The Bulgarian Women's Union (Bulgarian: ''Български женски съюз,'' 'Balgarski Zhenski Sayuz' \'b&l-gar-ski 'zhen-ski s&-'yuz\), was a women's rights organisation active in Bulgaria from 1901 to 1944. In 1901, the organisation w ...

in 1915-1925, president of the Bulgarian branch of the

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in 1925, co-founder of the Bulgarian-Romanian Association in 1932, co-founder of the Bulgarian Writers Association and its president in 1935. Active as a teacher, she was early on active in the debate of women's education and status of female teachers. In 1901, she was a co-founder of the Bulgarian Women's Union alongside

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, Kina Konova, Anna Karima and Julia Malinova. The organization was an umbrella organization of the 27 local women's organisations that had been established in Bulgaria since 1878. It was founded as a reply to the limitations of women's education and access to university studies in the 1890s, with the goal to further women's intellectual development and participation, arranged national congresses and used ''Zhenski glas'' as its organ. Ekaterina Karavelova served as a Bulgarian delegate of several international conferences. In 1935 she opposed the capital punishment of political prisoners in Bulgaria, and in 1938 served in a commission that opposed the closure of Bulgarian schools in Romania.

Karavelova Point Karavelova Point or Nos Karavelova ( is on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Lister Cove. It is named after Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1 ...

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“is named after Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947), translator, author and woman activist.”Karavelova Point.
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* Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi
Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Easterna and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries
Central European University Press, 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Karavelova, Ekaterina 1860 births 1947 deaths Bulgarian women's rights activists Bulgarian feminists Pacifist feminists 19th-century Bulgarian people Bulgarian suffragists Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people 19th-century Bulgarian women 19th-century Bulgarian educators

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