RAZLOG

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RAZLOG
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• Razlog (Bulgarian ??????) is a town and ski
  resort in Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad
  Province in southwestern Bulgaria. It is situated
  in the Razlog Valley and was first mentioned
  during the reign of Byzantine emperor Basil II.

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• During his 18941896 trip in the region of
  Macedonia, Bulgarian geographer Vasil Kanchov
  visited Razlog (then known as ???????, Mehomia)
  and reported that it numbered 820 households, of
  which 500 of Eastern Orthodox Bulgarians, 300 of
  Muslim Bulgarians, 16 of Protestant Bulgarians
  and 5 of Eastern Orthodox Aromanians, for a total
  population of around 4,620.

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• According to the same author's 1900 study on
  the population of Macedonia, Razlog was populated
  by 4,970 people, of which 3,200 Christian
  Bulgarians, 1,460 Muslim Bulgarians, 80 Turks,
  200 Roma and 30 Aromanians.

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• The town's population actively participated in
  the Kresna-Razlog and Ilinden-Preobrazhenie
  Uprising, Razlog, which was part of Serez sanjak
  in Selanik vilayet as "Razlik", itself being
  liberated from Ottoman rule in 1912. Razlog has
  developed as a centre of winter tourism in the
  1990s and 2000s owing to its favourable position
  in the vicinity of the Pirin, Rila and Rhodope
  mountains.

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• Two Thracian tribes dii and satri - were
  the first to settle in the area of present-day
  Razlog. In 847, Razlog was included in the
  territory of Bulgaria during the rule of Khan
  Pressian. Thereafter, the town shared the fate of
  other Bulgarian lands with the major exception
  being its non-inclusion in the liberated
  territories following the Russian-Turkish war of
  1877-1878.

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• Razlog was eventually liberated following
  desperate uprisings by its citizens and the
  population of neighbouring areas - namely the
  Kresna-Razlog (1878) and the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie
  (1903) uprisings of the Pirin region.

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• The town of Razlog is mostly famous for its
  houses of the so-called Razlog-Chepino
  architectural style that spread during the
  Bulgarian Renaissance period. Nowadays, there are
  41 such houses in good condition in Razlog, and
  some of these have been transformed into museums
  of history and ethnography. In the vicinity of
  Razlog, one can take hiking tours to natural
  sights and archeological remains.

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• For instance, up in the slopes of Pirin, one
  can visit the Iztoka and Krushe protected areas
  with mineral water springs and medieval remains,
  the Mechata Dupka and Propadnaloto caves. In the
  slopes of Rila, interesting sights are the
  Stolovatets area for its remains of a Thracian
  sanctuary and the Katarino area with its mineral
  water.

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  made by Dessislava Dureva