---
id: "date_bulgarian"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["bg"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/date_bulgarian"
---

# Date with a Bulgarian month name (`date_bulgarian`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Calendar date written in Bulgarian with the month name, day first, for example 5 май 2022 or 25 декември 2024, optionally followed by г. (година, year): 25 декември 2024 г. The month is capitalised or in lower case.

- Pattern of: `date`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Bulgarian (bg)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]) (?:[Яя]нуари|[Фф]евруари|[Мм]арт|[Аа]прил|[Мм]ай|[Юю]ни|[Юю]ли|[Аа]вгуст|[Сс]ептември|[Оо]ктомври|[Нн]оември|[Дд]екември) \d{4}(?: ?г\.)?$
```

## Examples

- `25 декември 2024` — 25 December 2024
- `5 Май 2022` — 5 May 2022
- `25 декември 2024 г.` — With the abbreviation of година (year)
- `декември 2024` (invalid example)
- `25 декабря 2024` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- qddate: `dt:date:bg_base`, `dt:date:bg_base_lc`

## Supported by tools

- `qddate`

## Translations

- ru: Дата с болгарским названием месяца: Календарная дата на болгарском языке с названием месяца, например 5 май 2022.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country>
- other: <https://github.com/ivbeg/qddate/blob/v1.1.0/qddate/patterns/bg.py>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/date_bulgarian.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/datetime/date_bulgarian.yaml>