Sliven
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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
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
Anton Pann
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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 folklor
Sliven
…life. It served as the birthplace of many prominent Bulgarians, including Hadzhi Dimitar, Dobri Chintulov, Ivan Seliminski. Another notable native is Anton Pann who composed the Romanian national anthem. Another notable resident is Yordan Letchkov, whose goal in the 1994 World Cup eliminated defending champion…
Anton Pann rowiki
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)