Vidin

As an orphan she was sold into the Ottoman slave trade, and in 1859 found herself on the auction block in Vidin, in present-day Bulgaria.

Veliko Tarnovo is almost 200 miles farther from his village than Vidin.

In the port of Calafat, across the Danube from the Bulgarian port of Vidin, border guards use sniffer dogs and equipment which can detect heartbeats to search for stowaways.

There is little sign of them here in the northwestern corner of Bulgaria, near the city of Vidin.

In Sofia, many taxis from Lion’s Bridge drive northwest to Vidin, Bulgaria’s smuggling capital, where gangs move up to 500 migrants nightly across the Timok river into Serbia, Bulgarian officials say.