Balgarowo

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Balgarovo (Българово)
Coat of arms of Balgarowo
Balgarowo (Bulgaria)
Balgarowo
Balgarowo
Basic data
State : BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
Oblast : Burgas
Residents : 1601  (December 31, 2016)
Coordinates : 42 ° 37 ′  N , 27 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 27 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 72 m
Postal code : 8110
Telephone code : (+359) 05915
License plate : A.
Administration (status: since November 2007)
Mayor : Jordan Jordanow
Ruling party : GERB
Website : www.obstina-bourgas.org

Balgarowo ( Bulgarian Българово ) is a city in the municipality and district / Oblast Burgas in southeastern Bulgaria .

Until 1934 the place was called Urum Yeniköy (Bulgarian Урум Еникьой).

location

Balgarowo is located in the eastern part of the Upper Thracian Plain, around 20 km northwest of the Burgas community center, around 15 km southeast of the city of Aytos and 6 km north of Kameno . Nearby is' LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas , the largest refinery on the Balkan Peninsula . The A1 motorway connecting Burgas with Sofia and the Burgas-Sofia railway line run close to the city .

history

During the centuries-long rule of the Ottoman Empire , Balgarowo was mainly inhabited by Turks and Greeks. On February 4, 1878, the Russian army advancing in the course of the "Russo-Turkish War of Liberation" of 1877/78 found over 400 murdered Bulgarians and Greeks.

The large Bulgarian settlement of modern times goes back to Bulgarian refugees from Thrace in what is now northern Greece and Turkey after the Ilinden-Preobraschenie uprising in 1903. It increased after the Balkan Wars in 1912/1913, when further waves of refugees from Eastern Thrace followed (see Thracian Bulgarians ). In 1854 the Greek population built the church "Saint Athanasius". In 1904 the Bulgarian population built their own church, that of "Holy Tsar Boris ", which was destroyed by the communists in 1946. In the following time the Turkish and Greek minorities emigrated. In 1906 the Chitalishte "Saglasie" and in 1925 the "Expellees Association of Thracian Bulgarians Jane Popow" was founded. The village was declared a city in 1974.

Since 1979, the former Greek Orthodox Church has housed the town's local museum and an ossuary with the remains of the 1878 massacre.

Sons and daughters

Individual evidence

  1. Balgarowo commemorates the massacre (Bulgarian) www. dnevnik.bg
  2. ^ Iwan Karajotow , Stojan Rajtschewski , Mitko Iwanow: История на Бургас (on German, for example, History of the City of Burgas), 2011, ISBN 978-954-92689-1-1 , pp. 135-138