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A stretch of secluded, mountainous countryside near the Bulgarian-Greek-Turkish border, a few kilometers long and a few hundred meters wide. In the 1980s, when the Bulgarian state tried to c... Read allA stretch of secluded, mountainous countryside near the Bulgarian-Greek-Turkish border, a few kilometers long and a few hundred meters wide. In the 1980s, when the Bulgarian state tried to convert all Turks - demanding that they adopt Slavic names - most of its inhabitants flew t... Read allA stretch of secluded, mountainous countryside near the Bulgarian-Greek-Turkish border, a few kilometers long and a few hundred meters wide. In the 1980s, when the Bulgarian state tried to convert all Turks - demanding that they adopt Slavic names - most of its inhabitants flew to Turkey. Many of the villages near this border were abandoned. But some people stayed. Th... Read all