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Extract from the Chiprovtsi Travel Guides:
Regular buses make the 25-kilometre journey west from Montana to the carpet-making village of
CHIPROVTSI
, nestling beneath the highest mountains of the northeast, their jagged peaks marking the frontier between Bulgaria and Serbia. Chiprovtsi was an important gold and silver mining centre in the late middle ages, and Saxon miners were encouraged to settle here, bringing new technology, Catholicism and blond-haired, blue-eyed blood lines in their wake. Despite the Ottoman conquest, the village went on to become an important centre of Catholic learning, with local children being sent to Italy for training in the priesthood. Seventeenth-ce...
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