GABROVO, a town of Bulgaria, situated on the upper Yantra, in the northern foothills of the Balkan mountains, on a branch of the Transbalkan railway from Stara Zagora to Trnovo. Pop. 13,823. It is the centre of the textile and tannery industry. The old gabled wooden houses along the Yantra are particularly fine specimens of Balkan architecture, and the Turkish bridge is also famous. The first Bulgarian national school was opened in 1835 at Gabrovo, which thus became to some extent the cradle of the national resurrection. About io miles away is the Sokol monastery, beautifully situated on a wooden cliff.