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<p class="card-text mb-auto">Serbian Cyrillic uses beautiful ligatures for "ль" and "нь".</p>
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<p class="card-text mb-auto">The most beautiful church in Bulgaria that you’ve probably never heard of.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-macedonian-cyrillic/">Beautiful Ligatures in Macedonian Cyrillic</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-02-08T09:14:15Z">Mon Feb 08, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/language/" rel="category tag">Language</a>, <a href="/categories/travel/" rel="category tag">Travel</a>
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<a href="/tags/bulgarian/" rel="tag">Bulgarian</a>, <a href="/tags/cyrillic/" rel="tag">Cyrillic</a>, <a href="/tags/macedonia/" rel="tag">Macedonia</a>
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<p>Macedonian is a Slavic language closely related to Bulgarian. My untrained ear can’t tell the difference between the two, but my eyes spot differences immediately. In addition to minor variations in spelling and grammar, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_alphabet">Macedonian’s Cyrillic alphabet</a> uses a handful of characters not present in Bulgarian’s, for example the beautiful ligatures for “ль” and “нь”: љ and њ, respectively.</p>
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<p>Ligatures for upper and lowercase “Lje” and “Nje” characters (rendered in PT Sans)</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/01/sofia-communist-tour-great/">The “Sofia Communist Tour” Is Great</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-01-27T13:43:20Z">Wed Jan 27, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
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<a href="/tags/communism/" rel="tag">Communism</a>, <a href="/tags/sofia/" rel="tag">Sofia</a>
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<p>What better vessel could there be than an iconic, former-East-German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant">Trabant</a> for navigating a narrative of Bulgaria’s communist era? A few clever young Bulgarians have bought a little blue “Trabi” and are giving free tours of Sofia with the aim of doing just that.</p>
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<p>The East German Trabant is an iconic reminder of Communism in Eastern Europe</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/01/rambling-man-with-torch-sofia/">Rambling Man With a Torch in Sofia</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-01-04T12:44:05Z">Mon Jan 04, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
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<p>“<em>STOP!</em>” he shouts, right as I’m about to take my money from the ATM in downtown Sofia. Alarmed, I turn around to find some bearded man standing right behind me, holding what — at first glance — looks like a gun. “<em>Holy shit,</em>” I think, “<em>am I about to get jacked?</em>”</p>
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<p>Butane torch (by Hustvedt, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AButane_torch.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>)</p>
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