Silver jewelry dating to the second half of the seventeenth century has been unearthed in the northwest Bulgaria by locals who turned it over to the country's National Museum of History. The treasure, which includes a tiara, two forehead adornments, earrings, ear tabs, and rings is thought tho have been hidden in a leather purse during the Chinarovtsi uprising, when Roman Catholic and Estern Orthodox Bulgarians rebelled against the Ottoman Empire. The region of Chiprovtsi was known for its silver ore, discovered in the fifteenth century and metal smiths. Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that insurgents were crushed by Ottoman troops in 1688 near the modern city of Motana, then known as Kutlovitsa, where the treasure was found.
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