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Extract from the Samokov Travel Guides:
Though it lacks the cachet of antiquity,
SAMOKOV
can boast a tradition of skilled craft work second to none in Bulgaria. Founded as a mining community in the fourteenth century, it soon became one of the busiest manufacturing centres in the Turkish empire (its name derives from the Bulgarian verb "to forge"), where all kinds of crafts guilds flourished, particularly weavers and tailors, who turned flax (still a major product) into uniforms for the Ottoman army. From the seventeenth century until the end of Turkish rule, Samokov's stature eclipsed that of Sofia and Kyustendil - and was raised even higher by the artistry of its...
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