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Extract from the Batak Travel Guides:
The highlands to the north of Dospat are as thickly wooded and thinly populated as any in the Rhodopes, with not a single village on the road to Batak, only hunting lodges and a hikers' chalet (US$9 and under) beside the Vasil Kolarov Reservoir. In such a lonely, peaceful setting, it's hard to imagine that
BATAK
was once a byword for infamy that reverberated across Europe. During the April Rising of 1876 the Turks unleashed
bashibazouks
and Pomaks from other settlements to rape, pillage and slaughter the populace. Five thousand people - nearly the entire population - were hacked to death or burnt alive, an act for w...
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