Ivaylovgrad
| Ivaylovgrad (Ивайловград) | |||||
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 Bulgaria
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| Oblast : | Haskovo | ||||
| Residents : | 3469 (December 31, 2016) | ||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 32 ' N , 26 ° 8' E | ||||
| Height : | 104 m | ||||
| Postal code : | 6570 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 03661 | ||||
| License plate : | X | ||||
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| Mayor : | Stefan Tanew | ||||
| Website : | www.ivaylovgrad.org | ||||
Ivaylovgrad , also Ivaylovgrad ( Bulgarian Ивайловград , Turkish Ortaköy ) is a city and the administrative seat of a municipality of the same name in southern Bulgaria not far from the Greek border. The name of the city is derived from the Bulgarian words Iwajlo ( Tsar Iwajlo ) and grad for city ; so it means Iwajlo's city .
geography
The city of Ivaylovgrad is located in the eastern foothills of the Rhodope Mountains at the transition to the Thracian plain . The Arda and Erythropotamos rivers flow near the city . On the Arda River, not far from Ivaylovgrad, there is the Ivaylovgrad dam with the associated Ivaylovgrad reservoir .
The municipality of Ivaylovgrad borders in the north on the municipalities of Ljubimez and Madscharowo , in the west on the municipality of Krumowgrad in Kardzhali Oblast and in the east and south on the Greek municipality of Orfeas .
Attractions
- Villa Armira , a Roman country villa
- Lyutitsa fortress
- Aterenski Most (Bulgar. Атеренски мост), an Ottoman bridge over the Armira River
- Thracian grave at Swiratschi
- Several Thracian dolmens throughout the parish
