Anton Pann was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher. Pann was an influential folklorist and collector of proverbs, as well as a lexicographer and textbook author.
Lăutari in mid-19th-century Bucharest, as drawn by Carol Popp de Szathmary
The 1847 fire in Bucharest
Cover of Noul Erotocrit, published in Romanian Cyrillic (Sibiu, 1837)
The Anton Pann Memorial House in Râmnicu Vâlcea
Sliven is the eighth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and industrial centre of Sliven Province and municipality in Northern Thrace. It is situated in the Sliven Valley at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains.
Top: Panorama view of Sliven, 2nd left: Sliven City Hall, 2nd right: Stefan Kirov Drama Theater, 3rd left: Monument of Hadji Dimitar, 3rd right: Hadji Dimitar House Museum, 4th left: Saint Dimitar Cathedral, 4th right: Clock Tower, Bottom left: A bust chieftain of Hadji Dimitar in Dimitar House Museum, Bottom right: Slivenski Bit Museum
View of Sliven and the lowlands of Thrace from southern Stara Planina
Saint Demetrius church in Sliven, built 1831
The monument of Hadzhi Dimitar in Sliven
