site.btaCoup de Chance: How French, Bulgarian Historians Discover Tarnovo's "Most Beautiful and Detailed" 19th Century Map

"A stroke of luck in the winter of 2018" led to the discovery of the most beautiful and detailed map of Tarnovo (Central North Bulgaria) made before the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878. In an interview with BTA, Ivan Roussev, a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and a Professor at the University of Economics in Varna, talked about the information the map carries, as well as the process during which he and his French colleagues clarified the author and year of the cartographic plan, as these are not mentioned on the document itself.