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    Богородично“) or, as it is more commonly called, the Troyan Monastery is the third largest monastery in Bulgaria. It is located in the northern part of...
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    tourist-accessible. The Troyan region is home to the cultural and historical site of the Troyan Monastery. August 15 is the day of the Monastery's Patron Saint,...
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    chapel and the St Nicholas church of the Bachkovo Monastery, the Troyan Monastery and the Monastery of the Transfiguration. He painted three mural portraits...
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    Bulgaria, the "Troyan plum spirit" (Troyanska Slivova) has been distilled in the Troyan Monastery by the monks since the founding of the monastery in the 14th...
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    Mountains in Troyan Municipality, Lovech Province, Bulgaria. There is a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery — one of the biggest...
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  • Transfiguration Monastery Troyan Monastery Zemen Monastery Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights, Essex Orthodox Monastery Of...
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  • Rila Monastery Rozhen Monastery Bachkovo Monastery Troyan Monastery Drianovo Monastery Sokolski Monastery Cherepishki Monastery Shipka Monastery Zemen...
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    Zahari Zograf, who worked in the monastery between 1849 and 1851, after he finished his decoration of the Troyan Monastery. Among the more notable murals...
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  • Monastery and Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has three stauropegic monasteries: Rila Monastery Bachkovo Monastery Troyan...
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    Maxim of Bulgaria (category People from Troyan)
    Oreshak but from his late childhood, he became a novice monk in the Troyan Monastery and then studied Orthodox Theology at Sofia University, from which...
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  • Bulgaria Troyan Peak, in Antarctica Troyan Pass, a mountain pass in the Balkan Mountains Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria Troyan (surname) Troyan Radulov (born...
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    Michael and was given the name Methodius upon becoming a monk in Polychron Monastery at Mysian Olympus (present-day Uludağ in northwest Turkey). Their father...
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    century, Ferapontov Monastery, Vologda region, Russia Trojeručica copy, Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria Trojeručica, Lesnovo monastery, North Macedonia The...
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    best known with the Troyan Monastery - the third biggest in Bulgaria, and the north approach to Beklemeto Pass, also known as Troyan Pass, which is one...
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    singing at the Moscow Theological Academy. On 3 August 1975, at the Troyan Monastery, he took monastic vows with the name Neophyte in a ceremony overseen...
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  • cave house 30b. Devetaki – Devetashka cave Troyan — Natural History Museum at Cherni Osam, Troyan Monastery, Museum of Folk Arts Teteven — Museum of History...
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    ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ (Jesus Christ — the letter Ϲ on the icon being koine Greek Σ). Detail from an icon at the Troyan Monastery in Bulgaria. See complete icon...
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  • while making a film at the Troyan Monastery. The tax collectors had paid a surprise, unannounced inspection of the monastery while Zheleva was filming...
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    theatre Angel Sladkarov in 1936, Nozharova married its namesake in the Troyan Monastery. In 1940 they divorced and the same year she married the Papal count...
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    active in the Rila Monastery, the Troyan Monastery and the nearby Transfiguration Monastery. The church, along with the entire monastery, suffered extensive...
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    became abbot of Kalofer Monastery. In 1832, Archimandrite Joseph Sokolsky left the Troyan Monastery and founded a monastery at a place called Falcon...
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    the monasteries on Mount Athos and after a one-year stay went to Varna, Tulcea, the Holy Trinity Monastery near Tarnovo and the Troyan Monastery. He returned...
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    Apostol Karamitev 2 Leva Collector Coin Cu 999° 2 Leva 3 000 240. 2014 Troyan Monastery 10 Leva Collector Coin Ag 925° 10 Leva 3 000 241. 2014 Bulgarian Iconography...
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    43°0′N 24°30′E / 43.000°N 24.500°E / 43.000; 24.500 Lovech • Apriltsi • Troyan • Teteven • Lukovit • Ugarchin • Letnitsa • Yablanitsa Municipalities within...
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    famous Rose Valley), immediately below the steep southern slopes of the Troyan Balkan Mountain (Central Stara Planina). Sopot is part of Plovdiv Province...
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    Zograph and Hilandar monasteries on Mount Athos, as well as the Rila, Troyan, Etropole, Dryanovo, Cherepish and Dragalevtsi monasteries in Bulgaria. The monks...
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    the Great Basilica was constructed, together with a monastery which was attached to it. The monastery was home to the disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius...
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    his cathedral at Polotsk all the way from Kiev: "In the seventh age of Troyán Vséslav cast his lots for the Maiden dear to him." "He with wiles at the...
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    climbing the Balkan mountains in an attempt to reach Troyan. Kalofer has a number of churches and monasteries, many with church bells. On a small street is a...
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    Shipka Memorial Church Media related to Shipka at Wikimedia Commons Shipka travel guide from Wikivoyage Shipka – The Pass, Monument, Village and Monastery...
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