Arabakonak ( Bulgarian : Арабаконак ) or Botevgrad Pass is a mountain pass through the Balkan Mountains connecting Sofia with Botevgrad and Northern Bulgaria . It has been the site of several important events of the history of Bulgaria .
5-629: On 22 September 1872, Dimitar Obshti robbed an Ottoman postal convoy in the pass, an event that would lead to the capture and execution of Vasil Levski . During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) , the pass was contested between the Russians and the Ottomans until December 1877. On 14 April 1925, a group of anarchists organized an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria . This Sofia Province , Bulgaria location article
10-562: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dimitar Obshti Dimitar Obshti ( Bulgarian : Димитър Общи ) was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, who fought for the liberation of Bulgaria , Serbia and Crete from the Ottoman Empire , as well as for the Risorgimento of Italy . Obshti was born around 1835 in Gjakova , Sanjak of Peć , Ottoman Empire . He joined
15-616: The bishop of Lovech , who was suspected of collaboration and treason . Against the opinion of Levski, in September 1872 Obshti organized the robbery of the Ottoman postal convoy in the Arabakonak Pass in order to fund the BRCC activities. The Ottoman authorities reacted harshly and managed to arrest a number of BRCC militants, including Obshti and Levski. Obshti grasped at the chance to publicize
20-598: The first Bulgarian Legion organised in exile, in Serbia 's capital Belgrade , in 1862. There he received military training and met Vasil Levski who became his lifetime comrade in arms. They fought together against the invading Ottomans in Serbia. In April 1868 the Serbian authorities disbanded the Bulgarian legion and expelled its participants from the country. Obshti subsequently joined
25-646: The forces of the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and later took part in the 1866–1869 Cretan uprising . In 1869 he became one of the founders of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (BRCC) in Bucharest , Romania . In June 1871 Obshti was sent to Ottoman Bulgaria to serve as Levski's first deputy but compromised his superior's efforts by his adventurous endeavours. He led an assassination attempt against deacon Paisius, vicar to
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