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The Utroba Cave, also known as Womb Cave, is an ancient cave sanctuary in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria. Located in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains near the Ilinitsa village, the cave resembles a human vulva and dates to the Thracian period. Historians believe that it was once used as a fertility shrine. It is known in Bulgarian as Utrobata (Bulgarian pronunciation: [otrbt], lit.'The Womb') or Peshtera Utroba ([ptra otrb], Womb Cave').

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