Kako su Srbi postali Bugari u Pirotu
In 1877, The urban population of Pirot consisted of 29,741 Christian and 5,772 Muslim males, with total number of 3,000 Serbian houses and 400 Muslim houses. However, after the Serbian - Ottoman war in 1878 the population of Pirot changed via emigration process of Muslim population. In 1884 Pirot had 77,922 inhabitants, 76,545 being Serbs and 36 Turks.
In 1659, Austrian deputy August von Mayern visited the town and described it as "Schiarchici, a town called by the Orthodox as Pirot, but it not surrounded by walls and inhabited by Turks and Rascians.
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