Chiprovtsi
Sign in to saveChiprovtsi (, pronounced ) is a small town in northwestern Bulgaria, administratively part of Montana Province. It lies on the shores of the river Ogosta in the western Balkan Mountains, very close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border. A town of about 2,000 inhabitants, Chiprovtsi is the administrative centre of Chiprovtsi Municipality that also covers nine nearby villages.
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- Chiprovtsi
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- The central square of Chiprovtsi
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- Country
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- Bulgaria
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- Location of Chiprovtsi
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- Bulgaria
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- Location of Chiprovtsi
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- Mayor
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- Чипровци
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15 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- Demographics
- History
- Antiquity and Middle Ages
- Early Ottoman rule
- Cultural heyday
- Chiprovtsi Uprising
- Repopulation and modern times
- Governance, education and economy
- Culture and religion
- Notable people
- Notes
- References
- External links
Chiprovtsi (, pronounced ) is a small town in northwestern Bulgaria, administratively part of Montana Province. It lies on the shores of the river Ogosta in the western Balkan Mountains, very close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border. A town of about 2,000 inhabitants, Chiprovtsi is the administrative centre of Chiprovtsi Municipality that also covers nine nearby villages.
Chiprovtsi is thought to have been founded in the Late Middle Ages as a mining and metalsmithing centre. Attracting German ore miners who introduced Roman Catholicism to the area, the town grew in importance as a cultural, economic, and religious centre of the Bulgarian Catholics and the entire Bulgarian northwest during the first few centuries of Ottoman rule. The apogee of this upsurge was the anti-Ottoman Chiprovtsi Uprising of 1688. After the suppression of the uprising, some of the town's population fled to Habsburg-ruled lands; those unable to flee were killed or enslaved by the Ottomans.