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The wreath, which represents the country's produce, was given as an offering from every town and village in Bulgaria as a thanksgiving memorial for Gladstone's campaign in 1876 to expose Turkish atrocities against Bulgarian Christians. The day was observed in Bulgaria as a public holiday.

Source: St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden

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