The misunderstood saints of freedom
The feat of the heroes of Perushtitsa from 1876 as the supreme sacrifice in the conscious martyrdom of the new Bulgarian saints
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Perushtitsa and Macedonia - Thoughts and artifacts
In his book on the April Uprising, the famous professor Konstantin Galabov gives valuable and lesser-known information about his native Perushtitsa from the time of the Ottoman feudal riots of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. As a result of the differentiation in different places and with different degrees of autonomy of the possessions of local Turkish rulers, who in their desire to impose their power in the territories entrusted to them commit atrocities against the Christian population. For this reason, there were waves of refugees to calmer areas of the empire. We should not be surprised that it is precisely such a wave of refugees or, more correctly, internal migration, as we are talking about Bulgarian ethnic territories, says Professor Galabov, who also settled in Perushtitsa at the end of the 18th century. In all probability, some of these oppressed people find refuge right here, because they knew in advance that this village has fully preserved its Bulgarian character and offers relatively peaceful opportunities for life.
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