Focusing on the Ottomans' material heritage in Bulgaria and what's happened to it through the years "A Guide to Ottoman Bulgaria" will take the reader on a whistlestop tour of most of this country's Ottoman monuments. Richly illustrated with superb photography and expressing independent research and opinion, "A Guide to Ottoman Bulgaria" details the well-known Ottoman monuments in Samokov, Shumen, Plovdiv, Vidin and Sofia, but will also shed light on the lesser known, sometimes shocking stories of the Ottoman heritage in Varna, Uzundzhovo, Gotse Delchev and Kyustendil.

A must for everyone interested in Islamic art and architecture as well as the turbulent history of the Balkans.