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		In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman Empire was among the world's most powerful political entities and the countries of Europe felt threatened by its steady advance through the Balkans.
		The sultan, also known as the Padishah, in Europe sometimes the Grand Turk, was the sole regent and government of the empire, at least officially.
		The sultan enjoyed many titles such as Sovereign of the House of Osman, Sultan of Sultans, Khan of Khans, and from 1517 onwards, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe, i.e.
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	Osman I - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Osman I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He began his career in the service of the Seljuk Turks, but in 1299 he set up a kingdom of his own in Bithynia, northwestern Asia, and assumed the title of sultan.
		His successors were known as ‘sons of Osman’, from which the term Ottoman Empire is derived.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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	Osman Pazvantoglu
		Osman Pazvantoglu, also spelt Osman Passvan-Oglou, (1758-27 January 1807, Vidin) was a Turkish pasha and from 1794 a governor of the Vidin district of the Ottoman Empire.
		Having gathered a large army of mercenaries, he rebelled against the Ottoman sultan Selim III.
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		The mosque and the library of Pazvantoglu were built in 1798 – 1800.
		Leaving his own symbols, Pazvantoglu marked his independence from the sultan and from the official symbol – half-moon.
		According to the front door subscription, Pazvantoglu dedicated this mosque to his father, who had been killed in Vidin after sultan’s order.
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	Bulgaria property for sale in Vidin, Bulgarian properties and houses in Vidin
		Following defeat at the hands of the Ottomans outside the city of Nicopolis, Vidin finally fell under the sphere of the Ottomans, led by Bayezid I, as a punishment for their role in the hostilities.
		In the late years of Ottoman rule, Vidin was the centre of Turkish rebel Osman Pazvantoglu's breakaway state.
		Vidin boasts two well-preserved mediaeval fortresses, Baba Vida and Kaleto, as well as many old Orthodox churches such as St Pantaleimon, St Petka and St Greatmartyr Dimitrius (all from the 17th century), a Jewish synagogue (1894), a mosque and a library of Osman Pazvantoglu, a Turkish police office (18th century).
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	Sofroni Vrachanski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In accordance with the custom of the time, Sofronii had to bribe Greek church officials in order to be appointed bishop of Vratsa in 1794, an enterprise in which he was assisted financially by patriotic Bulgarian merchants.
		He was chased into exile by the local kârdzhali, who were then in alliance with the wayward Ottoman ruler of Vidin, Osman Pazvantoglu, and spent the rest of his life in Wallachia where he continued to work for the Bulgarian cause.
		A firm believer in Russia's messianic role as the protector of Balkan Christendom, Sofronii cultivated links with the St Petersburg court, and oversaw the emigration of thousands of Bulgarian families to Russian-occupied Bessarabia in 1808.
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	monkeytravel.org bulgaria page 6
		A flashlight helps you avoid these pitfalls (sorry, the Monkey loves puns), and illuminates such noteworthy touches as the prisoners' marks, carved into walls to count the days, months, and years spent in near-complete darkness and isolation.
		The library and mosque date from the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, a period when Vidin was ruled by local strongman Osman Pazvantoglu, who managed to carve out a semi-independent statelet free of Ottoman and other rule as the power of the Porte began to waver.
		While the Vidin enclave was shortlived and Istanbul resumed control of the region, many nationalists—not just in Bulgaria, but in neighboring Serbia—took heart in Vidin's successful challenge to Ottoman authority.
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		On the northern side of the main square the borders of old Vidin are marked by the Stambul kapiya or Istanbul Gate, a stocky portal in the Turkish style Beyond it lies a pleasant turn-of-the-century residential district with an extensive riverside park to the east.
		On the edge of the park stands the Osman Pazvantoglu mosque, the only surviving mosque in the city - most of the others were knocked down in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Across the road, stranded behind railings in a patch of wasteland between two school playgrounds, is the seventeenth-century Church of Sveta Petka, an unassuming, sunken structure, traces of bright blue on the exterior giving some idea of its former appearance.
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	Vidin city and tourism in Bulgaria
		Between 1794 and 1807 Vidin became the see of the Turkish military commander Osman Pazvatoglu, who declared himself an independent ruler of a considerable territory in Northwestern Bulgaria.
		“Krastata Kazarma”- the building was built in 1798 in the place of the old palace of the pasture under the guidance of polish specialists for the needs of the janissary of Osman Pazvantoglu.
		The mosque and the library of Pazvantoglu- which are independent complex build by the independent ruler in 1800.
	www.visitbulgaria.net /en/vidin/vidin.html (735 words)

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