This morning, in the garden of the historic residence of the Italian Ambassador in Sofia, a ceremony was held to unveil a plaque dedicated to Vito Positano (Noja, 1833 - Yokohama, 1886), Deputy Consul of Italy in Sofia, who in 1877 played a key role in saving the future Bulgarian capital and its civilian population from the fire set by Ottoman troops retreating in the face of the advance of the Russian Empire's army, which had sided with the Bulgarian patriots who rose up in 1876 after almost

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