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Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
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Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Eleventh and penultimate conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars
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Battle of Plovdiv (1878)
1878 battle of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
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Aleksandr Burago
Russian Army officer
Aleksandr Petrovich Burago was an officer of the Russian Imperial army. Serving as a captain under Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko, he commanded the force that liberated Plovdiv from the Ottoman rule on 16 January 1878. Later on Burago became a colonel. He died of tuberculosis at…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Squadron (army)
Cavalry unit size designation
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Russian Empire
Eurasian empire (1721–1917)
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Dragoon
Type of mounted soldiers
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Liberation of Bulgaria
Formation of a national identity in Ottoman Bulgaria
The Liberation of Bulgaria is the historical process as a result of the Bulgarian Revival. In Bulgarian historiography, the liberation of Bulgaria refers to those events of the Tenth Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) that led to the re-establishment of the Bulgarian state under the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ottoman Bulgaria
Bulgarian territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire, 14th-19th centuries
The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, beginning in the late 14th century, with the Ottoman conquest of smaller kingdoms from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire. In the late 19th century, Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottoman Empire, and by the early…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)