Nedelya Petkova

Nedelya Petkova (Bulgarian: Неделя Петкова; 1826–1894), known as well as Baba Nedelya (Grandmother Nedelya), was a Bulgarian pioneer in promoting girls' education as well as a revolutionary. In 1858 she began teaching girls and developed a school system for girls across the Bulgarian populated parts of the Ottoman Empire, with hundreds of girls attending classes.

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