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TheRepublic of Tamrash (Bulgarian:Тъмръшка република,romanized: Tǎmrǎška republika), was a short-lived self-governing administrative structure of thePomaks, living in the Tamrash region of theRhodope Mountains. It existed from 1878 to 1886.
The territory spanned over the area locked in the upper valley of theVacha River and most of its tributaries. The rebel territory initially consisted of 17 villages but their number increased to 21 in 1880. Some of those villages were Trigrad, Mugla, Beden, Mihalkovo,Skobelevo, Churukovo andDevin.
The republic survived until 1886, whenEastern Rumelia was incorporated into Bulgaria.[1] Then the area was returned to the Ottoman Empire.
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