Botevgrad Pass
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 Botevgrad Pass |
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| Compass direction | north | southwest | |
| Pass height | 980 m | ||
| Oblast | Sofia | ||
| Valley locations | Botevgrad | Sofia | |
| expansion | Pass road | ||
| Mountains | Balkan Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 46 '48 " N , 23 ° 47' 49" E | ||
Botevgrad Pass ( Bulgarian Ботевградски проход ) obsolete Arabakonak (Bulgarian Арабаконак ; also Araba-Konak) is a mountain pass through the Balkan Mountains that connects Sofia with Botevgrad in northern Bulgaria and is 980 meters high.
history
On October 4, 1872, a group of Ottoman soldiers who had collected the tax revenue from the area were robbed at the Arabakonak. The total was approximately $ 10,000 at the time. Bulgarian freedom fighters of the IRO who wanted to lead the area , which at that time still belonged to the Ottoman Empire , to independence were given as the perpetrators . The money was necessary to maintain the resistance against the Ottomans.
During the Russo-Ottoman War , Russian and Ottoman troops fought fierce battles here in the winter of 1877/78, which finally ended with the penetration of the Russians into Sofia. In memory of the fallen there is still a mighty monument today.
On April 14, 1925, a group of communists wanted the then Tsar of Bulgaria, Boris III. , assassinate (Arabakonak assassination). The tsar only survived because a personal friend, Deltscho Iltschew , covered him with his body, but one general died as a result of the assassination. On the same day General Kosta Georgiev was murdered in Sofia in preparation for the bomb attack on the Sveta Nedelya cathedral , in which up to 200 people died.
