Sredez (Burgas Oblast)
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| Oblast : | Burgas | ||||
| Residents : | 8759 (December 31, 2016) | ||||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 21 ' N , 27 ° 11' E | ||||
| Height : | 47 m | ||||
| Postal code : | 8300 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 05551 | ||||
| License plate : | A. | ||||
| Administration (status: since November 2007) | |||||
| Mayor : | Todor Stanchev | ||||
| Ruling party : | Bulgarian Socialist Party | ||||
Sredez ( Bulgarian Средец ) is a small town in the municipality of Sredez in the Bulgarian Burgas Oblast . In 2011 it had 8,759 inhabitants.
geography
The city is located near Lake Mandra on a northern branch of the Strandscha Mountains and around 30 km southwest of the fourth largest Bulgarian city, Burgas .
history
Until 1934 today's Sredez was called Karabunar . During the reign of Kimon Georgiev , the city was renamed Sredez . In 1950 the city was renamed Grudowo after the Bulgarian communist leader Todor Grudow . It has had city status since 1960. In the 1990s, after the fall of the communists, the city got its name Sredez back.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the only Bulgarian manufacturer of reinforcement elements made of ribbed steel, Prometsteel AG, which is now part of the Steel Neva Consortium, was built near the city.
Since 2015 the place has been one of the namesake for Sredets Point , a headland on the south-east coast of Smith Island in Antarctica.
Personalities
- Nikolaj Petrow (* 1959), politician, physician and major general
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Николай Мичев, Петър Коледаров. “Речник на селищата и селищните имена в България 1878–1987”, София, 1989.
- ^ Steel Neva Consortium