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Pazardzhik

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Pazardzhik , city (1993 pop. 82,904), S central Bulgaria, on the Maritsa River. A commercial center, its chief industries are textiles and food processing. Pazardzhik was under Turkish rule from the 15th to the 19th cent. It has an agricultural college and an old church with a fine collection of icons.

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Pazardzhik

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Pazardzhik, Bulgaria Tatar Pazarcik Founded by Russian Tatars in 1485 as the ‘Tatar Market’ from bazar ‘market’; the ‘Tatar’ was eliminated in 1934. There is a town with this name, but spelt Pazarcik, in Turkey and three towns called Pazar.

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