article_snippet.sent: The crumbling St Ivan Rilski Church is the only remaining evidence of the community of Zapalnya, Bulgaria, where residents lived until residents were forced to leave residents homes to make way for a dam built by the Communist regime.
article_snippet.sent: The crumbling St Ivan Rilski Church is the only remaining evidence of the settlement of Zapalnya, Bulgaria, where residents were forced to leave in the 1960s .
article_snippet.sent: The church, built in 1895, was the heart of life in the valley, and Zapalnya was known for rose oil production during the Ottoman Empire .
article_snippet.sent: south-east Bulgaria said The church, built in 1895, was the heart of life in the valley, and Zapalnya was known for rose oil production at the time of the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: Now wiped off the face of the planet, the Ottoman Empire existed before the 13th century under a different name.
highlights_snippet.sent: The crumbling St Ivan Rilski Church is the only remaining evidence of the community of Zapalnya, Bulgaria .
  