Okoliyska House

Okoliyska House Municipal Art Gallery and Mosque, Dupnitsa. The former mosque was built in the the 16th century on the foundations of an Orthodox church. EE1975148

Dupnitsa and Bulgarian Tobacco

August 2nd 1975
Saturday was an all-day trip to Rila Monastery in the Rila Mountains. On the way was a stop a the town of Dupnitsa, then known as Stanke Dimitrov. The town had been renamed in 1949 for Stanke Dimitrov (1889-1944), an early Bulgarian Communist leader. Turkish tobacco had been introduced to Bulgaria during the period of Ottoman rule. (Tobacco had been introduced to Turkey by the Spanish, who importe ... read more

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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, b... ... read more

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