Chiprovtsi (])'s a small town and municipality in northwestern Bulgaria, administratively part of Montana Province. It lies on the shores of the river Ogosta in the western Balkan Mountains, very close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border. A town of about 2,000 inhabitants, Chiprovtsi's the administrative centre of a municipality that also covers nine nearby villages. Chiprovtsi's thought to have been founded in the Late Middle Ages as a mining and metalsmithing centre. Attracting German ore miners… (More on Chiprovtsi)