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2 unusual facts about Vratsa


Anastasia Dimitrova

By 1845, the Pleven school was visited by 90 girls from Pleven, Lovech, Troyan, Tarnovo, Vratsa and other cities.

Dimitrova was born in Pleven on 12 May 1815 to poor Bulgarian parents: her mother was a servant in Agapius, the bishop of Vratsa's home.


Danubian endemic familial nephropathy

The disease was originally called "Vratsa nephritis," and became known as "Balkan endemic nephropathy" later, after people living in Yugoslavia and Romania were found to be suffering from it as well.

Gradeshnitsa

The village is notable for the Gradeshnitsa monastery (situated 1.5 km west of the village), and for the neolithic Gradeshnitsa tablets now kept in Vratsa museum.

Hayredin

It is the administrative centre of Hayredin Municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of Vratsa Province.

Kriva Bara

Kriva Bara, Vratsa Province - a village of the Kozloduy Municipality, Vratsa Province

National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria

Attended by over 820 people from across the country, mainly from the cities of Varna, Shumen, Asenovgrad, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Vratsa, Svilengrad, Lovech, Chirpan, Stara Zagora, Vidin and Dobrich.

Northwestern Bulgarian dialects

The range of the dialects includes most of northwestern Bulgaria, to the west of the line between Nikopol, Pleven and Mezdra and to the north of the line between Vratsa and Belogradchik.

Sophronius of Vratsa

He served in the Karnobat parish and went to a monastery in Arbanasi in 1794, becoming Bishop of Vratsa under the name of Sophronius on 17 September.

Vratsa Province

The distance to the major cities is as follows: Vratsa - Varna 414 km, Vratsa - Plovdiv 217 km; Vratsa - Pleven 108 km; Vratsa - Burgas 416 km.


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