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This is a list of villages in Bulgaria by province. List of villages in Blagoevgrad Province; List of villages in Burgas Province; List of villages in Dobrich Province; List of villages in Gabrovo Province; List of villages in Haskovo Province; List of villages in Kardzhali Province; List of villages in Kyustendil Province; List of villages in ...
Municipalities of Bulgaria Provinces of Bulgaria. The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 265 municipalities (община, obshtina).Municipalities typically comprise multiple towns, villages and settlements and are governed by a mayor who is elected by popular majority vote for a four-year term, and a municipal council which is elected using proportional representation for a four-year ...
The Bulgarian term "област" (oblast) is preferably translated into English as "province", in order to avoid disambiguation and distinguish from the former unit called "окръг" (okrag, translated as "district") and the term "регион" (always translated as "region"). At any rate, "district" and "region" are sometimes still used to ...
There are three border crossings near the town of Petrich and at the villages of Logodazh and Gyueshevo. [13] The border with Serbia runs from Kitka through the mountainous region Kraishte , including the Ruy Mountain , crosses the valley of the river Nishava , runs through the main watershed of the western Balkan Mountains and follows the ...
Located in the very southeast of the country close to the border with Turkey, where the river Veleka flows into the sea. [1] Sinemorets is part of Tsarevo Municipality, Burgas Province, and has a population of 216 as of September 2005. It is situated in Strandzha Nature Park, which assists in its range of flora and fauna. [2]
During the Interwar period, the Banat Bulgarian communities in Romania were among those experiencing the greatest emigration to the US, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s. [37] An organized Bulgarian community was established in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, where the Banat Bulgarians were mostly farmers. [38]
In 1977 the village is declared a historical cultural reserve. One of the main attractions is the St. Nicholas Church, built in 1834 in a monastery school complex . The sacred images comprising the iconostasis of the church were painted by George Filipov, a painter from the region of Debar, who later moved and lived in Gabrovo. Other ...
Until the Balkan Wars, Varvara was a small Ottoman village of ethnic Turkish refugees from northern Bulgaria who settled there following the Liberation of Bulgaria in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. After 1913, the Turks moved out and were replaced by Bulgarian refugees from Eastern Thrace