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Prior to their arrival in Greece, the crew spent ten days in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, training. The tiny town was turned upside down—or, more accurately, turned itself upside down—accommodating the team. In addition to providing a police motorcade that sped through red lights to and from the practice course, men with large guns were stationed every 100 meters or so along the course. The team stayed in a hotel rumored to be run by the mafia—a rumor made very believeable by the fact that in the window of every floor...
...Raster" print shop just outside the central Bulgarian town of Plovdiv looked like any other respectable business in the Balkans. A tidy blue awning shaded a picture window, and inside was a bank of desktop computers, stacks of CDs, some offset printers in the back. The proprietors turned out a creditable line of calendars, brochures and color advertisements, and developed a reputation for attention to detail. But, they allegedly had a sideline business. According to Bulgarian antifraud investigators, the unassuming shop was the source of one of the finest counterfeit €200 notes now in circulation...
...late 19th century, and it wants them to revert to their origins. But the Turkish minority regards itself as a remnant of the Ottoman Empire. "Our ancestors settled in Bulgaria when it was the empire's Balkan province," explains Huseyin Hafizoglu, 60, a schoolteacher whose home was near Plovdiv. "My family has been there for more than a century. But our country is still Turkey...
...Yugoslav People's Army (Partisans), under onetime Spanish Republican Leader Kosta Naditch, continued an offensive hopefully timed to relieve pressure on Russia. Other Communist-led Partisan groups operated in a belt running intermittently from near the Italian border through Montenegro and Southern Serbia. > In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, guerrillas or parachutists blew up an armament works, wrecking buildings, machines and stocks of rifle barrels...
...Bulgaria, three temblors terrorized the districts of Plovdiv, Burgas, Borisovo...