YORDANKA (Йорданка).  Feminine form of Bulgarian Yordan (q.v.), meaning "the descender."

    ... Of the first class, six in number, graduating from the Samokov Girls' School, four have done good service as Bible women.  One of them, dear Yordanka Antonova, eager to do "what she could" for the miserably poor, sick, bereaved survivors of the Turkish massacre in the Bulgarian village of Batak, so overtaxed her strength that coming to our home for a rest after some months of such work she soon passed away, happy in the assurance of meeting her Master's "Well done." (Life & Light for Woman, v.32, 1902)