Batak (Bulgarian: Батак [ˈbɐtak]) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria, not far from the town of Peshtera. It is the administrative centre...
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The Batak massacre was a massacre of Bulgarians in the town of Batak by Ottoman irregular cavalry troops in 1876, at the beginning of the Bulgarian April...
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Associated with the Indonesian Batak people: Batak languages Batak script Batak (Unicode block) Marga (Batak), Batak's family name Batak (Philippines), indigenous...
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Batak Hydro Power Plant (Bulgarian: Водноелектрическа централа "Батак", romanized: Vodnoelektricheska tsentrala "Batak") is an active underground hydro...
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The Batak Reservoir (Bulgarian: язовир Батак) is located in the Rhodope Mountains and is the third largest in Bulgaria. It attracts many tourists and fishermen...
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Batak Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Батак) is a municipality in the Pazardzhik Province of Bulgaria. At the 2011 census, the population of Batak was...
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The Batak Hydroelectric Cascade (Bulgarian: Баташки водносилов път, translit. Batashki Vodnosilov Pat) is situated in the Pazardzhik Province, southern...
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Pazardzhik Province (category Provinces of Bulgaria)
center of the uprising. The Bulgarian population also rebelled to the south where the Ottoman atrocities culminated in the Batak massacre. The massacre included...
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Batak Point (Bulgarian: нос Батак, ‘Nos Batak’ \'nos ba-'tak\) is a point on the northwest coast of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands situated 7 km...
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Hisarya (Bulgarian: Хисаря [xiˈsarʲɐ], also known as Hisar, Hissar or Hissarya, formerly: Toplitsa) is a small town and a major spa resort in Plovdiv...
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April Uprising of 1876 (redirect from Bulgarian rebellion)
engaged in indiscriminate slaughter of both rebels and non-combatants (see Batak massacre). The American community around Robert College in Istanbul, the...
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Stara reka until the town of Batak. The road then reaches the Batak Reservoir and begins a long gradual ascend of the Batak Mountain, passing by the reservoirs...
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Shiroka Polyana (category Reservoirs in Bulgaria)
Polyana is located at an altitude of 1,500 km at 30 km south of the town of Batak in Pazardzhik Province, on the second class II-37 road leading to Dospat...
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Bulgaria is a country situated in Southeast Europe that occupies the eastern quarter of the Balkan peninsula, being the largest country within its geographic...
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Ilia Balinov (born July 28, 1966 Batak, Bulgaria) is an Austrian chess player. He has played chess since he was 4 years old. He settled in Austria in...
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in Bulgaria sorted by population. Province capitals are shown in bold. Primary sources are the National Statistical Institute (NSI) and the Bulgarian Academy...
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Sofia (redirect from Sofia, Bulgaria)
soʊˈfiːə/ SOH-fee-ə, SOF-; Bulgarian: София, romanized: Sofiya, IPA: [ˈsɔfijɐ] ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia...
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Varna (Bulgarian: Варна, pronounced [ˈvarnɐ]) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea...
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Dospat Reservoir (category Reservoirs in Bulgaria)
One from Batak, a second from Velingrad to Sarnitsa, a third from Devin and a fourth from Gotse Delchev to the town of Dospat. The one from Batak allows...
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Rhodope Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Bulgaria)
main hydro-power generation regions of Bulgaria with a number of major hydroelectric power plants such as Batak, Peshtera, Aleko, Studen Kladenets, Kardzhali...
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Golyam Beglik (category Reservoirs in Bulgaria)
Republic of Bulgaria. The reservoirs Batak, Beglika, Shiroka Polyana and Golyam Beglik are the main tourist places in the region of Batak. Except Batak, the...
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Tsigov Chark (category Ski areas and resorts in Bulgaria)
located 8 kilometres from the town of Batak and 24 kilometres east of Velingrad. The resort is situated near Batak Reservoir. Bulgariaski.com 41°57′18″N...
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The history of Bulgaria can be traced from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state, and includes the...
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List of cities of Thrace (category Lists of populated places in Bulgaria)
Tatarpazarcık) Batak (Bulgarian: Батак; Turkish: Batak) Isperikhovo (Bulgarian: Исперихово; Turkish: Aydınköy) Panagyurishte (Bulgarian: Панагюрище; Turkish:...
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original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023. "The Batak Massacre (1876) | Bulgarian Horrors | J. A. MacGahan | Turkish Atrocities | The W.T. Stead...
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This is a list of reservoirs in Bulgaria: Note: In Bulgaria, a dam (Bulgarian язовир) is often used to refer the body of water, rather than the structure...
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Chepinska reka (category Rivers of Bulgaria)
situated the important Batak Reservoir. Upper course Chepino Gorge Chepino Gorge II-84 road along the gorge Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 1980, p. 532 "A...
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Januarius MacGahan (category 1876 in Bulgaria)
also the W.T. Stead Resource Site for MacGahan's Batak dispatch. Gladstone, William Ewart (1876). Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. London:...
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Stara reka (Maritsa) (category Rivers of Bulgaria)
underground tunnel to the Batak Reservoir for electricity generation at the Batak Hydropower Cascade (254 MW). Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 1980, p. 470 "A...
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Peshtera (category Towns in Bulgaria)
of Batak and Bratsigovo. The town is the third largest in the province after Pazardzhik and Velingrad and is the forty-fifth largest in Bulgaria. It...
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