A view over Peshtera town Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 Anelia Kassabova editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:vase.802 Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей - АЕИМ, БАН Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum - AEIM, BAS aeim 270 Structures Settelments Romania Comuna Peştera Comuna Peştera 28.10722,44.18951 Photograph Court photographer 1892 Ivan Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Ivan Anastasov Panorama view of a settlement. Two men in military uniforms and a boy (probably) are standing in the foreground. Hand-written inscriptions in Bulgarian and French: "Vue de la ville Pestera. / Départment de Tat. Bazardjik." The earliest document of the town's name dates from 1479 from the Ottoman Empire. The first official Bulgarian census in 1880 stated 758 households and 3,871 inhabitants, five years later, in 1885, Peshtera had a population of 4,704 and 876 households. Not specified Not specified 330 380 195 233 Bulgaria Pestera