| Reference number: | PP2774 |
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| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Town: | Veliko Turnovo |
| Type: | Detached property bargain |
| Price: | €26,000 (£21,439.76) |
This is a house that will make you like Bulgaria. 1 floor with 4 rooms, closet and attic. There is an asphalt road that leads to the property that is made of bricks. In the yard there is a well with fresh water.
The earliest traces were found on the Trapezitza Elevation from the first half of the 3 rd millennium B.C. Remnants on Tsarevets Elevation date back to the end of Bronze era (13th century B.C.) The oldest settlement was inhabited by Thracians and exited by the end of the Iron era. The following inhabitants were the Byzantines. In 8 century a big Slavonic - Bulgarian settlement was built there. At the end of the 10th century the elevations of Tsarevets, Trapezitza, and Sveta Gora were densely populated and in the 12th century Veliko Turnovo was a fortified town and a significant economic centre. The origin of the name is related to the Slavonic word "tern" or "turn" (thorn) and during the years it developed into Ternov, Trunov, Tarnov, Tarnovgrad, Tarnovo, and Veliko Turnovo, called Veliko (Great) in relation to its size, beauty and grandeur. In 1187 Uprising of Assen and Petar (brothers and noble men), the Byzantine rule was thrown off, and they proclaimed Veliko Turnovo capital of the restored Bulgarian Kingdom. During the 13 th and 14 th centuries the town became a significant political, economic, trade and cultural centre in Europe. This material and spiritual upsurge was discontinued on 17 th of July 1393, when the whole of Bulgaria was conquered by the Turks. During the Revival period the town experienced a new economic, cultural and political upsurge. Crafts developed, trade flourished, beautiful houses, public buildings and churches were built. Veliko Turnovo became a centre of the struggles for ecclesiastical and national independence. On the 7 th of July 1877 Veliko Turnovo was free again. On the 16 th of April 1879 the Turnovo Constitution, one of the most democratic constitutions in Europe at that time, is passed there. On 17.04.1879 the first Great National Assembly of liberated Bulgaria convened in Veliko Turnovo. It was namely there that on 06.09.1885 the acknowledge of the union of the Principality Bulgaria with Eastern Rumelia was made. Although Sofia became the capital of united Bulgaria, Veliko Turnovo continued to be a bastion of the Bulgarian national spirit, and self-awareness The Tsarevets Elevation in the eastern part of the town is proclaimed an archeological reserve. There the so called Baldwin Tower, the entrance door, and part of the fortified wall are preserved, as well as the palace of Bulgarian kings and the Bulgarian patriarchy of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (12 - 14 century) are restored.