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Koprivshtitsa's April Uprising Mausoleum ...  
   

Koprivshtitsa's April Uprising Mausoleum ...

... the town played a pivotal role in Bulgarian history, as it's the place where the uprising against the Turks began.
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July 24th 2011
Geo: 42.6403, 24.352Koprivshtitsa - the name of the next town on the itinerary. I'll buy a beer for anybody that can pronounce it correctly! The Cyrillic alphabet definitely poses a challenge, but the Western alphabet translations are actually a fairly good phonetic representation, from what I can tell so far. The combination of letters isn't quite what we are used to, and upon init ... read more
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Bulgarian Flag 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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