Chiprovtsi

Province (oblast)	Montana
Population	2458 (13.09.2005)
Altitude	478 m
Postal code	3460
Area code	09554
Geographic coordinates	43° 23' north, 22° 53' east
Time zone	EET (UTC+2; UTC+3 in summer)
Mayor	Ivan Pavlov

Chiprovtsi (Чипровци) is a town in Montana Province of northwestern Bulgaria, about 30 km from Montana, on the shores of the river Ogosta at the foot of western Stara Planina. Since 1999 Bulgaria is divided into 28 oblasts (provinces or regions) that correspond aproximatly to the 28 okrugs that existet before 1987. ... The metre, or meter, is a measure of length, approximately equal to 3. ... Blagoevgrad - 2700 Bansko - 2770 Bania - 2778 Kremen - 2771 Eleshnitza - 2782 Dobrinishte - 2777 Belitsa - 2780 Gotse Delchev - 2900 Gurmen - 2960 Kresna - 2840 Petrich - 2850 Razlog - 2760 Sandanski - 2800 Satovcha - 2950 Simitli - 2730 Strumiani - 2825 Hadzidimovo - 2933 Yakoruda - 2790 Riltzi Burgas - 8000 Dyuny - 8001 Elenite - 8002 Slunchev Briag/Sunny Beach - 8240 Aitos... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Time zones of Europe: Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... Moscow Time Eastern European Summer Time Eastern African Time Category: ... Montana is a province in northwestern Bulgaria, bordering Serbia and Montenegro and Romania. ... Montana (Монтана) is a city in northwestern Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Montana Province. ... Stara Planina, Rhodope, Rila and Pirin Mountains The Stara Planina (Old Mountain) or Balkan mountain range is an extension of the Carpathian mountain range, separated from it by the Danube River. ...

History

Antiquity and Middle Ages

Coat of arms of Chiprovtsi

An ore-miner settlement has been existing on the present location of Chiprovtsi since Thracian times. It was then populated by the Slavs, who named it Kiprovets. In the 13th century, the town received special privileges, as it was settled by Saxon ore-miners, who later accepted the Bulgarian language, but preserved the strong position of Roman Catholicism in the town thanks to Franciscan monks. Due to this influence, Chiprovtsi grew into a centre of Catholicism in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The Thracians were inhabitants of Thrace and adjacent lands (present-day Bulgaria, Romania, Republic of Moldova, northeastern Greece, European Turkey and northwestern Asiatic Turkey, eastern Serbia and parts of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) [1]. They spoke the Thracian language, an Indo-European language. ... The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... Map showing the Saxons homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers: Weser, Eider, and Elbe Src: Freemans Historical Geographys. The Saxons or Saxon people are part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German Federal States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Saxony... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Current division of Europe into five (or more) regions: one definition of Eastern Europe is marked in orange Eastern Europe as a region has several alternative definitions, whereby it can denote: the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Central Europe and Russia. ...

Ottoman rule

On the ground of ore-mining, handicrafts and trade blossomed in Chiprovtsi, wares were exported to Central and Eastern Europe. The economic heydey attracted Bulgarian noblemen from the whole country, leading to a revival of culture and religion.

The modern town reached the peak of its cultural, economic and political development during the first three centuries of Ottoman rule in Bulgaria, becoming the most significant centre of goldsmith's trade in the Balkans.

A secular school was built in the beginning of the 17th century, where Bulgarian and Latin were taught. The population of Chiprovtsi was half Catholic, half Eastern Orthodox by the time. Sons of the town's distinguished families, such as Petar Parchevich and Petar Bogdan Bakshev, studied theology in Italy, issuing books and becoming a part of European aristocracy. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ...

The Chiprovtsi Uprising

Main article: Chiprovtsi Uprising

In 1688, after heavy casualties were caused to the Ottoman armies by the coalition of Austrian, Polish and Venetian forces, Bulgarians from Chiprovtsi initiated the Chiprovtsi Uprising against Ottoman rule, which failed due to lack of assistance by the coalition, and was brutally crushed by janissary troops, who burned numerous villages in the area to the ground, forcing people from the whole region to flee to neighbouring countries, some of them setting up a Bulgarian community in the Banat, the Banat Bulgarians. // Events A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the Immortal Seven, invite William and Mary to depose James II of England. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Söğüt (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), İstanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanl... The Republic of Venice was a city-state in Venetia in Northeastern Italy, based around the city of Venice. ... Young Greeks at the Mosque (Jean Léon Gérôme, oil on canvas, 1865); this oil painting portrays Greek youths who were converted to Islam to become the elite of the army (Turkish yeniceri, recruit) The Janissaries (or janizaries; in Turkish: Yeni çeri, meaning new soldier; in Greek: Γενίτσαροι; in... Banat (Romanian: Banat; Serbian: Банат or Banat; German: Banat; Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság; Slovak: Banát) is a geographical and historical region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to Romania (the counties of Timiş, Caraş-Severin, Arad, and Mehedinţi), the western... The Banat Bulgarians (Bulgarian: банатски българи, banatski balgari, calling themselves palkene or palchene) are a Bulgarian minority group living mostly in the Romanian part of the historical region of the Banat. ...