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- ↑ "16th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ↑ = 88 96th Motorized Rifle Regiment
- ↑ Tsvetkov, K. and team. Almanac of the Land Forces of Bulgaria. Book Four. Association of the Land Forces of Bulgaria. National Museum of Military History, Bulgarian Military Historical Heritage Foundation, 2018, p. 193.
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