Established 26 November 1878 Phone +359 62 618 822 | Website www.nvu.bg Founded 26 November 1878 | |
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Motto Bulgarian: Времето е в нас и ние сме във времето! Rector Brigadier-General Tsvetan Harizanov Location Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Address Bulgaria Blvd. 76, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Similar Georgi Rakovski Military A, Veliko Tarnovo University, Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Ac, Shumen University, Technical University - Sofia | ||
Festival military brass band of vasil levski national military university veliko tarnovo
The Vasil Levski National Military University (Bulgarian: Национален военен университет "Васил Левски", Natsionalen voenen universitet "Vasil Levski") is Bulgaria's national military academy.
Founded in 1878 as a military school in Plovdiv, it was moved to Sofia the same year. On 19 April 1924, it was promoted to university status and in 1945, it was named in honour of Bulgarian national hero Vasil Levski (1837–1873). Since 1958, it has been headquarters in Veliko Tarnovo.
On 14 June 2002, the structure of Bulgarian military academies was reorganized: the Veliko Tarnovo-based Vasil Levski National Military University also covers the artillery academy (now a faculty) in Shumen and the air force faculty in Dolna Mitropoliya. The Rakovski Defence and Staff College remains independent.