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TRNOVO, or TIRNOVO , an episcopal city and the capital of a department of Bulgaria; 124 M. E.N.E. of Sofia, on the river Yantra, and on the Sofia-Varna railway, at the junction of the branch line from Rustchuk. Pop. (1906), '2,171. The city consists of two divisions.the Christian quarter , situated chiefly on a high rocky plateau
quarter , on the lower ground; but many of the Turkish inhabitants emigrated after 1878. On the Tsarevetz Hill above the city are the remains of the ancient citadel. The Husarjaini mosque is used as a military powder and dynamite factory. In the Christian quarter there are some interesting churches of the middle ages, notably that of the Forty
Trnovo
capital of Bulgaria, and from 1186 until its capture by the Turks, '7th of July 1394, the residence of the Bulgarian tsars. From the beginning of the'3th century it was also the seat of the patriarchate of Bulgaria, until the suppression of the patriarchate in 1767. In 1897 it was taken from Turkey by the Russians, and in 1879 Prince Alexander of Battenberg
church
Forty
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