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    town of Giurgiu and decided that the political situation was suitable for a general uprising. The uprising was scheduled for April or May 1876. The territory...
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    a Bulgarian rebellion in the areas of Maleševo and Pijanec in Ottoman Macedonia, part of the April Uprising of 1876. The work on its preparation began...
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    23 December 1876 until 20 January 1877. Following the beginning of the Herzegovinian Uprising in 1875 and the April Uprising in April 1876, the Great Powers...
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    1875. Though this uprising was largely unsuccessful, it would later serve as inspiration for the more successful April Uprising of 1876. On 12 August 1875...
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  • Boyadzhik massacre (category April Uprising of 1876)
    place in the wake of the Bulgarian April Uprising, even though Boyadzhik did not participate in the insurrection and was located hundreds of kilometres away...
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    Tsanko Dyustabanov (category April Uprising of 1876)
    Дюстабанов; (May 13, 1844 – June 15, 1876) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876. Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in...
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    century it was declared independent. The brutal suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 and the public outcry it caused across Europe led to the...
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    Under the Yoke (category April Uprising of 1876)
    of Folk Tales and in a single book in 1894. It is set in a small town in Central Bulgaria during the months leading up to the April Uprising in 1876 and...
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  • Hafuz Pasha (category Governors of the Ottoman Empire)
    the April Uprising in 1876, and the Kumanovo Uprising in 1878. He led a brigade that suppressed the April Uprising. Under his command, 212 of 223 houses...
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    massacre of Bulgarians in the town of Batak by Ottoman irregular cavalry troops in 1876, at the beginning of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876. The estimate...
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    Georgi Benkovski (category April Uprising of 1876)
    direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District. Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time...
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    Rayna Knyaginya (category April Uprising of 1876)
    born in Panagyurishte who is famous for having sewn the flag of the April Uprising of 1876. When she was 20 and working as a head teacher in the Panagyurishte...
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    Cherry gun (category April Uprising of 1876)
    the April Uprising of 1876 is kept in the museum of Bratsigovo, Bulgaria. The only cherry cannon that survived the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising is the...
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    during the April Uprising of 1876, and Bulgarian bands during the following Russo-Turkish War. The term is often employed to refer later to groups of rebels...
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    flags during the April uprising of 1876. "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος" (Eleutheria i thanatos – "Freedom or death") is the national motto of Greece and comes...
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    out in the summer of 1875, and lasted in some regions up to the beginning of 1878. It was followed by the Bulgarian Uprising of 1876, and coincided with...
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    rule of Bulgaria, the monastery was restored at it present place in 1845. It was the site of several battles during the April Uprising of 1876. Residential...
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    Svoboda ili smart (category History of North Macedonia)
    flags during the April uprising of 1876. Ivan Vazov wrote the poem "Свобода или смърть" in the same year. During the Kresna–Razlog uprising in 1878, there...
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    preparations were needed. In the April Uprising of 1876, experienced leader recruited to command the Liberation of Bulgaria (known as voivoda) refused...
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    Bulgarian National Revival (category Culture of Bulgaria)
    of authors like Ivan Vazov and Hristo Botev that inspired the Bulgarian struggle for independence and an autonomous church, and the April Uprising of...
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  • Bulgaria during the April Uprising of 1876 and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). He prevented the total burn down of the city of Sofia from the fleeing...
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    Famous men of letters are Georgi Busilin and Dragan Manchov. The population of Batak took part in the April Uprising of 1876. The people of Batak rebelled...
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    Koprivshtitsa (category Culture of Bulgaria)
    Topolnitsa River among the Sredna Gora mountains. It was one of the centres of the April uprising in 1876 and is known for its authentic Bulgarian architecture...
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    Zahari Stoyanov (category April Uprising of 1876)
    the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings. Stoyanov directed the Unification of Bulgaria...
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    Bloody Letter (category April Uprising of 1876)
    be the start of the anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876. Kableshkov writes this letter upon proclaiming the revolt in his home city of Koprivshtitsa...
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    of 15,275. Panagyurishte is a town of significant historical importance, being the center of the 1876 April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. The renown...
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    Tonka Obretenova (category April Uprising of 1876)
    village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse. They had seven children (five sons and two daughters) all of whom...
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    peak with the April Uprising of 1876 in several Bulgarian districts in Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia. The suppression of the uprising and the atrocities...
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    William Ewart Gladstone (category April Uprising of 1876)
    From 1876 he began a comeback based on opposition to the Ottoman Empire's reaction to the Bulgarian April Uprising. His Midlothian Campaign of 1879–1880...
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    Georgi Obretenov (category April Uprising of 1876)
    revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876. Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied...
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