The Etropole Monastery of the Holy Trinity, also known as Varovitets (Варовитец), is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery near the town of Etropole in west-central Bulgaria. The monastery was founded in the 12th or 13th century, its heyday being from the 16th to the 18th century when, thanks to its prolific scriptoria, it was the dominant literary centre of Ottoman-ruled northern Bulgaria.
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- Wikipedia (en) – Etropole Monastery (en.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia (bg) – Етрополски манастир (bg.wikipedia.org)
- Wikidata – Q5404894 (wikidata.org)
- Wikimedia Commons – Etropole Monastery (commons.wikimedia.org)
- OpenStreetMap – way 56463056 (openstreetmap.org)
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