Rawnez

Rawnez (Равнец)
Rawnez
Basic data
State :	Bulgaria
Oblast :	Burgas
Residents :	1563  (December 15, 2011)
Area :	33.645 km²
Population density	46.5 inhabitants / km²
Coordinates :	42 ° 31 '  N , 27 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 31 '1 "  N , 27 ° 15' 0"  E
Height :	78 m
Postal code :	8117
Telephone code :	([phone]
License plate :	A.
administration
Mayor :	Christo Kolew
Ruling party :	GERB
Website :	www.obstina-bourgas.org

Rawnez (also Ravnets , Bulgarian Равнец , Bulgarian for common yarrow ) is a village in the municipality of Burgas in the Burgas Oblast in southeastern Bulgaria .

Rawnez is located in the Burgas Plain , west of the Burgas Lake , about 20 west of the city center of Burgas . The closest places are Bratowo and Trojanowo .

In 1913, after the outbreak of the Second Balkan War , when the Turkish army recaptured Eastern Thrace , the entire Bulgarian population fled from Kavaklı to Bulgaria . Refugees (see Thracian Bulgarians ) from Kavaklı also settled in and around Burgas, including 23 families in Rawnez.

Military airfield

Between 1953 and 2001 a military airfield was operated by the Bulgarian Air Force in Rawnez. The Ravnets Air Base (Bulgarian Авиобаза Равнец; ICAO: LBBR) was a secret facility in which the 15th Squadron of the Bulgarian Air Force was based. Although the base is closed, it is still closely guarded today.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stojan Rajtschewski: Eastern Thrace. Ethnic composition and emigration in the XV-ХХ centuries (from the Bulgarian Източна Тракия. История, етноси, преселения XV-ХХ век ), Sofia, 2002, pp. 215-216, 247, 252-253, 255-256, 258 263, 265, 267, 272-273, 276, and 279-281