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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
Durankulak (Bulgarian: Дуранкулак [doˈrankoɫak]) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province.Located in the historical region of Southern Dobruja, Durankulak is the north-easternmost inhabited place in Bulgaria and the northernmost village of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, although the village itself is slightly inland.
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 ...
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
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 ...
Twin towns of Plovdiv in 2011 Map of Bulgaria This is a list of municipalities in Bulgaria which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world). A Antonovo Beymelek (Demre), Turkey Roccafiorita, Italy Asenovgrad Bergama, Turkey Denpasar, Indonesia Derinkuyu, Turkey Dimitrovgrad ...
The northern border with Romania follows the river Danube until the city of Silistra. The land area of Bulgaria is 110,994 [1] square kilometres (42,855 sq mi) (111,002 [1] square kilometres (42,858 sq mi)), slightly larger than that of Cuba, Iceland or the U.S. state of Tennessee. Considering its relatively compact territorial size and shape ...