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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Shopi, Borovets, Koprivshtitsa, Etropole, Elenska Basilica, Samokov, Botevgrad, Momin Prohod, Dolna Banya, Godech, Elin Pelin, Gabra, Pravets, Leskov Dol, Slivnitsa, Kostinbrod, Pirdop, Kalotina, Mirkovo, Ihtiman, Dramsha, Gorna Malina, Tsarska Bistritsa, Bozhurishte, Svoge, Opitsvet, Gate of Trajan, Bratushkovo, Topolnitsa Reservoir, Vakarel radio transmitter, Bebresh Viaduct, Gurgulyat, Petarch, Pirdop copper smelter and refinery, Arabakonak, Povalirazh, Dragotintsi, Dragoman, Bulgaria, Etropole Waterfall, Pancharevo Gorge, Radulovtsi, Pishtane. Excerpt: Shopi (scientific transliteration of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian Cyrillic: Serbian latin opi; singular, shop) is a regional term referring to people that speak a transitional dialect group of South Slavic, classifying as Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs. The areas traditionally inhabited by the Shopi is called Shopluk (, Shopluk/srb. opluk), roughly where Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia meet. The Shopluk is a so called meso region, but has nevertheless been given an ethnographic character by Serbian and Bulgarian writers. According to Institute for Balkan Studies, the Shopluk was the mountainous area on the borders of Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia, of which boundaries are quite vague, the term Shop has always denoted highlanders. Shopluk was used by Bulgarians to refer to the borderlands of Bulgaria, the inhabitants were called Shopi. In Bulgaria, the Shopi designation is currently attributed to villagers around Sofia. Western Bulgaria Northern Macedonia The noting of Shopi as a "group" began in the 19th-century migrational waves of poor workers from the so-called Shopluk, poor areas (villages) beyond Sofia. Yugoslav and Serbian writers put the opi (also opovi) as a subgroup of the Serb ethnos, emphasizing on the group being closer to Serbs th...
