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National history is a serious business in a country that was virtually effaced for five hundred years - when this part of the Ottoman Empire was referred to by Westerners as "European Turkey". Since the Liberation in 1877-78, successive regimes have tried to inculcate a sense of national pride among their citizens, emphasizing historical continuity between the modern state and the medieval Bulgarian empires of the past Other useful information
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