Tirnova, a town of Bulgaria, on the Jantra, 35 miles SSE. of Sistova, amidst strange limestone-rocks. It became in 1235 the seat of the Bulgarian patriarch, and has more than once served as the capital. Dyeing is carried on, and silk and coarse cloth are manufactured. Pop. 11,314.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 219
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