Unknown Eastern Bloc Medal

[J Hardy]

Totally lost on this one. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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[MASSOUD]

I'd say Serbia or Bulgaria.

[Theodor]

For Hunting Activity. Probably Serbia, not sure.

[uscob]

Can you show a total and also the reverse?

[Valter Gorenc]

It says "за ловна дбиность" za lovna dbinost' and that's not Serbian sentence, except if it's some very ancient language version. "za lovna" means "for hunting"

I cannot find that "dbinost" neither in Serbian nor Macedonian dictionary (I thought it could be Macedonian); neither russian, belorussian or ukrainian. It's neither Bulgarian, as Theodor would know it. And that's pretty much all Slavic languages that use cyrilic. Weird.

[J Hardy]

The reverse of the medal is blank. I really appreciate everyone's help!

Here are a couple more photos -

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[Theodor]

Well, after all, seems its Bulgarian! From the prewar years. A picture of one of the hunting organization leaders, with his military awards:

http://www.lostbulgaria.com/?p=4968

The words read: For Hunting Activity - Za lovna deynost. This took me some time, not familiar with the hunting awards.

[Theodor]

And here are his awards today /of course, some are missing/. Look in the right column:

[Theodor]

And just as a note, another Bulgarian hunting medal /for hunting and literature activities/, with similar ring attachment - oak leaves

[Valter Gorenc]

Wow, good eye! I misread the old style E for B, hence no transaltions...

[J Hardy]

Thanks for all the hard work Theodor - I really appreciate it!