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See also:TRNOVO, or TIRNOVO , an episcopal See also:city and the See also:capital of a See also:department of See also:Bulgaria; 124 M. E.N.E. of See also:Sofia, on the See also:river Yantra, and on the Sofia-See also:Varna railway, at the junction of the See also:branch See also:line from See also:Rustchuk. Pop. (1906), '2,171. The city consists of two divisions.—the See also:Christian See also:quarter, situated chiefly on a high rocky See also:plateau, and the so-called See also:Turkish quarter, on the See also:lower ground; but many of the Turkish inhabitants emigrated after 1878. On the Tsarevetz See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill above the city are the remains of the See also:ancient citadel. The Husarjaini See also:mosque is used as a military See also:powder and See also:dynamite factory. In the Christian quarter there are some interesting churches of the See also:middle ages, notably that of the See also:Forty Martyrs, in which the Bulgarian tsars were crowned. Numerous antiquarian remains have also been discovered. There are a gymnasium and a high-class girls' school. The city possesses large dye-See also:works, and important manufactures of See also:copper utensils.
Trnovo was the ancient capital of Bulgaria, and from 1186 until its See also:capture by the See also:Turks, '7th of See also:July 1394, the See also:residence of the Bulgarian tsars. From the beginning of the'3th See also: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 See also:Turkey by the Russians, and in 1879 See also:Prince See also:Alexander of See also:Battenberg was here elected prince of Bulgaria. On the 5th of See also:October 1908 the See also:independence of Bulgaria was proclaimed here by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Ferdinand, in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the Forty Martyrs.
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