The Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, dated as the Uprising of August 1903 is an revoltionary organized act of insurrection against the politic of Greece and the Ottoman Empire, which was prepared and carried out by the Inner Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation, as known as IMRO.
This key moment has been topic of many historical, biografical and key number of priced Slavic bookishness, in fact this semantic practices are being cultural and semiotic transmits, highly priced for most sensitive in substance. It is public topic at heat that cannot play possum as local peoples define their own aim to act by playing the field of independence and freedom. Some authors are leaving messages for how the rebellion in Macedonia affects most of the central and southwestern parts of the Monastir Vilayet, receiving the support mainly of the local Bulgarian inhabitants and no Slavic help against redistribution of Balkan Peninsula. There is only one who give care to the efforts of the inhabitants of these lands when human rights are something unknown for the multicultural fight and collide of interest where situation all the time can be found like it’s out of kiltered. All the Bulgarian and Macedonian citizens in the Adrianople vilayet migrate in the name of liberaty at a the area of Strandzha Mountains, the Black Sea coast and Pirin mountains.

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Ljutica Fortress is one of the best-preserved in its original appearance medieval fortresses in Bulgaria. It vies with the fortresses near the villages of Mezek, Matochina and others, which are considered as the best-preserved medieval fortresses in all Bulgaria.The fortress was built on Gradishteto, a Rhodopes peak overgrown with forest, situated six kilometers west of Ladja neighborhood of Ivailovgrad. Its walls, surrounding an area of 14 decares, are preserved to their original height of 6m and are 1.75m thick. They were built of processed stones soldered with white mortar. The defense line of the fortress was fortified with 12 towers, some of which are preserved almost to their original height of 9m. Most of them are rectangular but there are also semicircular, trapezoidal and octagonal towers. The towers were three stories high, topped with combat platforms and equipped with loopholes. The lower floors of the south towers were used as living rooms, while those of the north towers served as water reservoirs. Evidence for this can be found in the manner that climbing to the combat platform was organized in each tower. Getting to the platforms, in those used as living rooms, was done by climbing wooden staircases, while stone stairs, detached from the fortification walls, were used to get to the top of the ones used as water reservoirs.
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The architectural monument – obelisk of the perished during the Balkan War in the year 1912 was erected in 1941 at the Sheinovec peak, in the land between the villages of Valche Pole and Malko Gradishte.

The peak itself is connected to the beginning of the Balkan War in 1912. According to the Bulgarian secret services, on October 4, 1912, the Ottoman battalion on the Kurtkale peak numbered around 100 soldiers and two more small brigades were situated nearby. Commanding authorities of the Bulgarian military were preparing for an assault on the peak with the aim of seizing it, since the place is convenient for scanning the valleys of the Arda and Maritsa rivers and the Edirne Valley. Access to the peak is exceptionally difficult. The slopes from the south and northwest descend vertically and are inaccessible, while the eastern slope is rocky and steep. Climbing to the top was possible only via one path, meandering between the rocks and bushes.

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The partition of the Kingdom of Tarnovo and its gradual weakening coincided with the appearance of a terrible danger to which initially no one seemed to pay any particular attention. Under the pressure of the Turks after the 11th century, Byzantium had practically lost Asia Minor. It was the hobby of both the larger and the smaller Turkic Muslim states established there to wage war with the Christians (not that they left the people of their own faith alone).
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Tsar John Alexander stood at Bulgaria’s helm from 1331 to 1371. It was during his rule that the country was given some breathing space, He was not lucky in the wars he waged but neither did he suffer any particular defeat. Bulgarian territories were part of international trade. There was a special “Frankish” neighbourhood in the capital inhabited by foreign merchants. Jews who had probably come a century or two before that from Byzantium also lived separately. The most active merchants were those from Ragusa /Dubrovnik/, on the Adriatic Sea, who crossed the peninsula far and wide. As the items they imported and exported were interesting, the tsar had given them special grants specifying their privileges.
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With the emergence of the grandiose empire, the Romans thought about its protection. A protective zone, the so-called limes, oriented to the north, was created along the thousands of miles of the border from Britain to Asia, whereby the present day Bulgarian lands were in the Lower Danubian part. That was a defence with a deep echelon structure, in which the fortified cities built played the principal role. The names of dozens of such fortified settlements are known, notably Ratiaria, Oescus, Novae, latrus, and others. They all emerged in the same way: the families of soldiers, merchants and artisans gradually settled near the main camp of a stationed legion, cohort or some auxiliary military unit. Strong fortification walls were built to protect the cities, and their layout followed the typical Roman pattern with straight streets, a central square (forum) with beautiful porticos and statues, public baths, and various representative and public buildings.
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