Razgrad

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Razgrad is a city in northeastern Bulgaria. It is the capital of Razgrad Province, built upon the ruins of the Ancient Roman town of Abritus on the banks of the Beli Lom. The town has one of the dense Turkish populations in Bulgaria (27% of the population). Some of the interesting sites in the town are: the Varosha architectural complex from the 19th century, the ethnographic museum and several other museums, the St Nicholas the Miracle Worker (Maker) Church from 1860, the Momina cheshma sculpture, the Mausoleum Ossuary of the Liberators (1879-1880), the characteristic clock tower in the centre built in 1864 and the Ibrahim Pasha Mosque from 1530. The mosque is the third largest one in the Balkan and its reconstruction has still not been completed, having begun in Communist times. In 251 there was a battle - the first occasion of a Roman emperor being killed in a battle with barbarians. Razgrad was the site of this battle - the Battle of Abrittus, during which the Goths defeated a Roman army under the emperors Trajan Decius and Herennius Etruscus. Other towns in the province are : Kubrat, Isperih, Loznitsa, Zavet and Tsar Kaloyan.