Chiprovtsi

Chiprovtsi (, pronounced ) is a small town in northwestern Bulgaria, administratively part of Montana Province. It lies on the shores of the river Ogosta in the western Balkan Mountains, very close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border. A town of about 2,000 inhabitants, Chiprovtsi is the administrative centre of Chiprovtsi Municipality that also covers nine nearby villages.

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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.image_caption: The central square of Chiprovtsi
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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.map_caption: Location of Chiprovtsi
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map: Bulgaria
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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.leader_title: Mayor
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Wikidata facts

Official name: Chiprovtsi
Country: Bulgaria
Located in: Chiprovtsi
Population: 1291
Area: 65.467
Elevation: 550
Time zone: UTC+03:00
Capital of: Chiprovtsi
Official website: www.chiprovtzi.hit.bg
Image: Chiprovtsi-centre.jpg
Dialing code: 09554

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topic's main category: Category:Chiprovtsi
category of associated people: Category:People from Chiprovtsi
Commons category: Chiprovtsi
postal code: 3460
different from: Chiprovtsi
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Bulgaria

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Contents

Name
Geography
Demographics
History
Antiquity and Middle Ages
Early Ottoman rule
Cultural heyday
Chiprovtsi Uprising
Repopulation and modern times
Governance, education and economy
Culture and religion
Notable people
Notes
References
External links

Chiprovtsi is thought to have been founded in the Late Middle Ages as a mining and metalsmithing centre. Attracting German ore miners who introduced Roman Catholicism to the area, the town grew in importance as a cultural, economic, and religious centre of the Bulgarian Catholics and the entire Bulgarian northwest during the first few centuries of Ottoman rule. The apogee of this upsurge was the anti-Ottoman Chiprovtsi Uprising of 1688. After the suppression of the uprising, some of the town's population fled to Habsburg-ruled lands; those unable to flee were killed or enslaved by the Ottomans.

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