Turres, the name in antiquity of Pirot, Serbia, a town between Naissus and Serdica
Aleksandar Petrović also referred as Aleksandar R. Petrović (Cyrillic: Aлeкcaндap Пeтpoвић, born February 1, 1985 in Pirot) is a Serbian footballer.
The town is accessible from the nearby city of Niš by the "Niš Express" buses that run from Niš to Pirot, Babušnica, Dimitrovgrad and Sofia.
Bratislav Mijalković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бpaтиcлaв Mиjaлкoвић ;born 10 September 1971 in Pirot) is a former Serbian football player.
In the beginning due to the harsh weather and the tough terrain the Bulgarian advance was slow but despite the desperate resistance of the defenders, there was a Bulgarian breakthrough near Pirot in 10 days and the Serbs retreated to the Timok and the Bulgarian 1st Army chased them.
Vujadinović holds a Bulgarian passport (and consequently EU citizenship) due to his grandfather Velichko being a Bulgarian from Pirot.
In the conflict, a Bulgarian victory that defended the revolution, Mutkurov headed the troops fighting at Tsaribrod on 13 November and was also in charge of the central and right wing forces during the Pirot Offensive on 14 and 15 November.
Zoran Đorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Ђорђевић; born February 13, 1952 in Veliki Jovanovac village near Pirot, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football manager.
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Jean-Marie Pirot (Trémery,1926) known as Arcabas, a name given by his pupils, is a French contemporary sacred artist.
After his studies in France (in Lyon and Grenoble, with notably Jean-Marie Pirot-Arcabas), England (Canterbury) and Italy (Rome), Djan Silveberg started his artistic career by participating in a first photography exhibition on Ireland in 1992.
Along with a wave of Bulgarian refugees, his family had to move to the newly established Principality of Bulgaria in 1878, as Pirot was ceded to the Principality of Serbia by the Treaty of Berlin.