Veliko Tarnovo

Veliko Tarnovo. Notable at left center is the Cathedral of the Birth of the Theotokos, completed 1844 and reconstructed 1913. EE1975117

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Gabrovo and the Etar Village Museum

July 30th 1975
From Bucharest, travel would by land through the Balkans all the way to Zagreb. The group's motorcoach crossed the Danube River over the long Friendship Bridge at Ruse, leaving Romania and entering Bulgaria. Thence on to Grabrovo via Vielke Tarnovo for overnight. Near Gabrovo is the Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex. This is an open-air museum of preserved folk structures, in the manner o ... 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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