Indeed, the toponym Arbanasi, a village near the city of Tarnovo, is a hint at Albanian settlement in the region.
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Albanian settlement in northern Bulgaria was not limited to Catholics—in a 1595 letter to the Prince of Transylvania, Ragusan merchant Pavel Đorđić notes that "in Bulgaria there are many villages inhabited by Albanians, from where 7,000 brave and well-trained men can be rallied".
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