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Mountain range in southeastern Europe
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The Balkan Mountains region of Bulgaria consists of the most representative, central parts of the Balkan Mountains themselves - the namesake of the Balkan Peninsula, a 560 km long mountain range that runs from the border between Bulgaria and Serbia to the Black Sea coast. Its green slopes are home to ancient ruins, colourful monasteries, picturesque traditional architecture, and modern hiking trails and ski slopes.
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north of the mountains, in the Fore-Balkan. Gabrovo is home to a humor museum and provides access to local ski resorts. Close to the open-air ethnographic museum Etara and the historic Shipka Pass.
"the city of 100 voyvoda-s" (rebel leaders), in a valley under the south slopes of the mountains.
Sevlievo (Севлиево) is a town in central Bulgaria, in a valley among the northern foothills of the Balkan Mountains. It can be a pleasant stop when travelling west of Veliko Tarnovo, or between Gabrovo and Lovech.
"the town of craftsmen", with preserved traditional architecture.
birthplace of Bulgarian national hero Vasil Levski, with more preserved traditional architecture.
centre of the Bulgarian rose oil production history; the surrounding area has been dubbed "the Valley of Thracian Kings" due to the large number of rich Thracian tombs, including one that's a .
Koprivshtitsa (Bulgarian: Копривщица) is a historic town on the Topolnitsa River among the Sredna Gora mountains in the Balkan Mountains region of Bulgaria. Koprivshtitsa is a museum town filled with Colourful National Revival houses, quiet cobbled streets, stone bridges, and small Orthodox churches.
Nature Park Bulgarka (Bulgarian: Природен Парк Българка Priroden Park Bălgarka) is a protected national nature park in the central northern part of the Balkan Mountains near the Bulgarian towns of Gabrovo and Tryavna. The park has been protected because of its picturesque mountain landscapes, the variety of rare animals and plants, as well as in the aim of preserving traditional ethnic handcrafts and beliefs in the ethnographic open-air museum complex Etar and in the Dryanovo Monastery.
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