VELIKO TŬRNOVO

vĕlēˈkō tûrˈnōvō, formerly Trnovo or Tirnovo, city (1993 pop. 69,059), N central Bulgaria, on the Yantra River. It is a commercial center and produces foodstuffs, textiles, and leather. Trnovo is the seat of an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan. The site was probably a Roman fortress. The second Bulgarian kingdom came into existence at Trnovo when Ivan I was proclaimed czar in 1186. It was the capital of Bulgaria under Ivan II, who built (1230) the Church of the Forty Martyrs. The city fell to the Turks in 1393. A Bulgarian constitution was drafted in 1879 at Trnovo, where the full independence of Bulgaria was proclaimed in 1908. In 1965 the city was renamed Veliko ("Greater") Tŭrnovo. A university is located there.

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books on: Veliko TUrnovo  - 20 results

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As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literature
Book by Huck Gutman; University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
Subjects: American Literature--Appreciation--Foreign Countries, American Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction
...students. The English Department at Veliko Turnovo University is much smaller than...professors who have taught regularly at Veliko Turnovo University since its founding...Bulgaria: two at Sofia, one at Veliko Turnovo, and three in the Comparative...
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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...Turkish War of 1828 29; Russo-Turkish War of 1877 78 Turnovo Former district center in north-central Bulgaria...the Slavic traneto (thorn bush), has been called Veliko Turnovo. Turnovo is a crossing point of the Sofia-Varna (west...
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Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism
Book by Ruth Mandel, Caroline Humphrey; Berg, 2002
...in her late 30s is married and lives in the city of Veliko Turnovo, some 40 km from the village. The daughter, Tanya...1996 were transferred by car to Tanya's apartment in Veliko Turnovo for consumption by the couple and their teenage son...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 2
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...and by the universities of Sofia, Veliko Turnovo, Plovdiv, and Shumen. During...blgar- skiia kllizhovell ezik. Veliko Trnovo: Abagar. Stankiewicz E...leksilzologiia na hIgarskiia ezik. Veliko Trnovo: Abagar. Zidarova V ( 1998...
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The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked
Book by Z. H. Archibald; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Thrace, Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Thracian influences, Orpheus (Greek mythology)--Art, Thrace--Antiquities
...Zahlhaas Diss., 27, A54, 60; Schiering 1975: 78, A3; 79 ; Venedikov 1977: 99, no. 12 . Izgrev, Veliko Turnovo, Veliko Turnovo Mus. hgt. 19.8 cm; mouth diam. 20.5 cm; base diam. 11 cm. Zhuglev 1966a: 3: 57 ; Venedikov 1977...
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journal articles on: Veliko TUrnovo  - 2 results

 
 
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International Conferences and the Balkans: a Personal Commentary
Journal article by George A. Kourvetaris; Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Armed forces, Conferences, Democracy, Globalization, Military policy, Reforms
...at the first Bulgarian City of Veliko Turnovo. This was once the capital of...Romania from Bulgaria. The city of Veliko Turnovo was a typical European city with...twice that of Bulgaria. We left Veliko Turnovo the next morning and our bus took...
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Religious Freedom in Bulgaria
Journal article by Emil Cohen, Krassimir Kanev; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1999
Subjects: Bulgaria--Social policy, Evangelistic work--Political aspects, Freedom of religion--Bulgaria, Nationalism and religion--Analysis, Pluralism--Political aspects
...loud propaganda in the media. On February 23, 1995, police stormed into one of the conference halls of a hotel in Veliko Turnovo and into a private residence in the same city, confiscating more than fifty titles of legally published religious...


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Black Sea Bargain; HEAD TO BULGARIA BEFORE PRICES ROCKET
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), July 30, 2006
...fascinating historic quarters. Plovdiv is a hilly old town of narrow cobbled streets and ancient crumbling houses. Veliko Turnovo is the former medieval capital where homes cling precariously to steep rocky hillsides. Eating and drinking IF you...
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Bulgaria's Beautiful Purple Haze
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), December 27, 2005
...On the way to Varna, Bulgarias third biggest city, we stop for a brief stint at the countrys medieval capital, Veliko Turnovo, where cosy-looking houses perch on the slanting banks of the river Yantra. With a constant, slow breeze from...
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Bulgaria
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 1, 2005
...heart for. On the way to Varna, Bulgarias third biggest city, we stop for a brief stint at the medieval capital, Veliko Turnovo, where cosy-looking townhouses dating from a mixture of centuries perch on the slanting banks of the river Yantra...
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Sofia's Choice
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), November 27, 2005
...On the way to Varna, Bulgarias third biggest city, we stop for a brief stint at the countrys medieval capital, Veliko Turnovo, where cosy-looking townhouses dating from a mixture of centuries perch on the slanting banks of the river Yantra...
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British Buyers Cast a Net around the World; Even the Land of Father Christmas Beckons as the Spanish Cost as Lose Their shine,MARKET WATCH, PROPERTY ON SUNDAY
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 8, 2006
Subjects: Real estate industry
...identical twins from Sheffield, are building an arts and crafts village of 120 units near Bulgarias ancient capital Veliko Turnovo (www.simpligroup.com). Unlike the plundered Black Sea coastline, the countryside attractions here - beautiful...


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encyclopedia articles on: Veliko TUrnovo  - 4 results

 
 
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Veliko TŬrnovo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VELIKO TURNOVO vele ko tur novo, formerly Trnovo or Tirnovo, city (1993 pop...Bulgaria was proclaimed in 1908. In 1965 the city was renamed Veliko ("Greater") Turnovo. A university is located there...
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Trnovo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRNOVO see Veliko Turnovo , Bulgaria. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Tirnovo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TIRNOVO see Veliko Turnovo , Bulgaria. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Bulgaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Constantinople. The second Bulgarian empire (1186 1396) rose in 1186 when Ivan Asen (Ivan I) was crowned czar at Veliko Turnovo . His son, Kaloyan, crowned in 1204 with the approval of the pope, defeated (1205) Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople...


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