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<h1><center>This is a small part of the history of the Troyan :</center></h1>
<center>The town of Troyan is located in the center of The Stara Planina (The Central Balkan Range), some 160 km northeast of Sofia. The city is situated on the banks of the Cherni Osam River at an elevation of 450 meters above sea level. The Troyan Pass, which facilitates transportation to southern Bulgaria, is 22 km from the town of Troyan. The town has a population of 22,000 people.
Archeological excavations of the Troyan region have revealed that the area was a Thracian settlement as early as the 11th-10th centuries BCE. The Thracians gave the Central Balkan Range its original name – The Hemus Range. The name Troyan comes from the Latin name for the Roman road through the area – Via Trajana. Along this stretch of the Roman road more than 20 fortresses have been discovered.
During the first half of the 19th century, a number of handicrafts experienced rapid growth in Troyan, such as weaving, blacksmithing, and tanning. Pottery workshops also flourished, and the Troyan school of ceramics came to be highly regarded.
In 1911 the first electric light is switched on - Troyan is the third town in Bulgaria (after Sofia and Plovdiv) that is already electrified before the First world war. Due to its flourishing craftsmanship (pottery-making, cap-making, carpentry) and its developing industry Troyan, together with the villages in the district, establishes itself as a major supplier of these products for the markets all over the country. And its exemplary fruit-growing makes its name famous - it is called the town of the plums and the magic brandy.
In the eighties the town of Troyan is already recognized as an industrial center of the country having won solid positions on the foreign markets in the sphere of the production of electric motors and electromotive devices, machine-tools, woolen textile, pharmaceuticals, waterproof plywood and phazer, furniture, table and souvenir pottery.
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