Another stranger's proposal was a Greek name, which was adapted to the Bulgarian version: Vangeliya. The stranger proposed Andromaha ( Andromache), but this was rejected for being "too Greek" during a period of anti-Hellenic sentiment within Macedonian Bulgarian society. When the baby first cried out, a midwife went into the street and asked a stranger for a name. In accordance with local tradition, the baby was not given a name until she was deemed likely to survive. She was a premature baby who suffered from health complications. Vanga was born on 3 October 1911 to Pando Surchev and Paraskeva Surcheva in Strumica in the Salonica vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia). After the fall of communism, her persona has remained popular. In the late 1970s and 1980s, she was widely known in Eastern Europe for her alleged abilities of clairvoyance and precognition. Blind since her early childhood, she spent most of her life in the Rupite area of the Belasica mountains in Bulgaria. Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova ( née Surcheva Bulgarian: Вангелия Пандева Гущерова, née Сурчева 3 October 1911 – 11 August 1996), commonly known as Baba Vanga (Bulgarian: Баба Ванга, lit.'Grandmother Vanga'), was a Bulgarian attributed mystic and healer who claimed to have foreseen the future.
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