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Sarnitsa Municipality
Sarnitsa Municipality (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Община Сърница) is one of the municipalities located in Pazardzhik Province. Its administrative centre is Sarnitsa, Pazardzhik Province, Sarnitsa. The municipality was established on 1 January 2015. Geography The municipality is located in the southern portion of the Pazardzhik Province, province. The total area is 198.59 km2 (76.68 sq mi). It occupies an elongated area that is 34 km long from northwest to southeast and 6 to 8 km in width. It borders Velingrad Municipality in the north and Batak Municipality in the east. The Dospat Municipality of Smolyan Province is to the south-east, while Garmen Municipality, Garmen and Satovcha Municipality, Satovcha municipalities of Blagoevgrad Province adjoin the region in the south-west. Communities There are only three communities with a permanent population: Sarnitsa, Pazardzhik Province, Sarnitsa, Pobit Kamak, Pazardzhik, Pobit Kamak and Medeni Polyani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pazardzhik Province
Pazardzhik Province ( bg, Област Пазарджик ''Oblast Pazardzhik'', former name Pazardzhik okrug) is a province in Southern Bulgaria, named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Pazardzhik. The territory is that is divided into 12 municipalities with a total population of 275,548 inhabitants, as of February 2011. History The territory of the Pazardzhik Province has been inhabited since very early times. There are more than 50 discovered Stone Age and Bronze Age settlements. The earliest civilization to inhabit the region were the Thracians. The remains of the Thracian town Besapara are located in the hills near the provincial capital Pazardzhik. The Panagyurishte Treasure unearthed near the northern town of the same name is known as one of the finest examples of Thracian art. The 6.164 kg of 23-karat gold treasure which consists of nine vessels has been dated back to the 4th and 3rd century BC. In the 1st century BC the region became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian (, ; bg, label=none, български, bălgarski, ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians. Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect continuum of the Indo-European language family. The two languages have several characteristics that set them apart from all other Slavic languages, including the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, and the lack of a verb infinitive. They retain and have further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system (albeit analytically). One such major development is the innovation of evidential verb forms to encode for the source of information: witnessed, inferred, or reported. It is the official language of Bulgaria, and since 2007 has been among the official languages of the Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarnitsa, Pazardzhik Province
Sarnitsa (also transcribed Surnica, bg, Сърница ) is a small town in the Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria. it has 3,511 inhabitants. Formerly a village, it gained its town status in September 2003 and since January 2015 has formed the administrative centre of the homonymous Sarnitsa Municipality. Most inhabitants are ethnic Bulgarians and their main religion is Islam. That means that Sarnitsa is a predominantly Pomak settlement. The city has an ageing Ageing ( BE) or aging ( AE) is the process of becoming older. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi, whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biologically immortal. In ... age structure. References {{Coord, 41, 44, N, 24, 02, E, region:BG_type:city, display=title Populated places in Pazardzhik Province Towns in Bulgaria Chech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velingrad Municipality
Velingrad Municipality ( bg, Община Велинград) is the largest municipality in Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria. The municipality consists of two towns, Velingrad and Sarnitsa as well as 22 villages, with a total population of 40,595. The municipality of Velingrad is mostly inhabited by ethnic Bulgarians, which are Orthodox and Muslim (Pomaks) by religion. Demographic situation The municipality of Velingrad has relatively favourable demographic indicators compared with the rest of Bulgaria. Nevertheless, the number of births dropped sharply while the number of deaths remained fairly constant. This led to a negative natural growth rate. Religion According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: The municipality of Velingrad is nearly equally divided between believers belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Islam. Most Christians live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batak Municipality
Batak Municipality ( bg, Община Батак) is a municipality in the Pazardzhik Province of Bulgaria. Demography At the 2011 census, the population of Batak was 6,144. Most of the inhabitants (53.46%) were Bulgarians, and there were significant minorities of Gypsies/Romani (3.43%) and Turks (38.34%). 4.6% of the population's ethnicity was unknown. Communities Towns * Batak Villages * Fotinovo * Nova Mahala A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramat ... References {{Authority control Municipalities in Pazardzhik Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dospat Municipality
The Dospat Municipality is a municipality in southwestern Bulgaria and is one of the municipalities in the Smolyan Province. Geography It covers the southwestern Rhodope Mountains. 8 settlements belong to the municipality with a total of 8217 in 2016. Demography The municipality of Dospat lost a large part of its population since the fall of communism in Bulgaria, due to emigration and more recently due to negative growth rate. As of 018, the municipality of Dospat had 7,932 inhabitants, down from 10,489 inhabitants in 1992. There were 64 children born in 2016, down from 91 compared to five years earlier. The number of deaths is 89 as of 2016, down from 105 in 2011. The natural population growth is minus 25 people, nearly double as many compared to minus 14 people in 2011. Religion Nearly half of the population did not answer the question on their religion; only a slight majority did answer the question. Of those people only 55 are Orthodox Christians, while the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smolyan Province
Smolyan Province ( bg, Област Смолян, ''Oblast Smolyan''; former name Smolyan okrug) is a province in Southern-central Bulgaria, located in the Rhodope Mountains, neighbouring Greece to the south. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre — the city of Smolyan. The province embraces a territory of .Bulgarian Provinces area and population 1999 — National Center for Regional Development — page 90-91 that is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population of 124,795 inhabitants, as of December 2009. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garmen Municipality
Garmen Municipality ( bg, Община Гърмен) is situated in the southeastern part of Blagoevgrad Province in Southwestern Bulgaria. It is a rural municipality, composed of 16 villages. The administrative center is the village of Garmen, but the most populated village is Ribnovo. The municipality lies in the western part of the Rhodope mountains. History The municipality of Garmen has been a home to many tribes throughout the years, but most important have been the Thracians, Slavs and Protobulgarians. The Thracian tribe of Bessi was the main tribe that settled in the region and there are a large number of remains left in the area, proof of their rich life here. The villages of Blatska, Debren, Dabnitsa and Hvostyane have found fragments of Attic vessels and there are mound necropolises. In about 146 AD, after long battles between Roman troops and Thracians, the area around Gotse Delchev fell to Roman rule. In 106 the emperor Trajan built the city Nicopolis ad Nestum i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satovcha Municipality
Satovcha Municipality is a municipality in southwestern Bulgaria and is one of the municipalities in the Blagoevgrad Province. Geography It covers the Southwestern Rhodope Mountains. 14 settlemements belong to the municipality with a total of inhabitants (21.07.05) and a territory of km2. Administrative, industrial and cultural center of the municipality is the village of Satovcha. Population As of December 2018, there are 14,263 inhabitants living in the municipality of Satovcha, down from 18,265 inhabitants in 2000. The municipality of Satovcha has a Muslim majority (over 85% of the total population). Nearly all of them are Bulgarian Muslims (on the contrary, most Muslims in Bulgaria are ethnic Turks). Satovcha has a declining birth rate as young women are moving out of the villages. Religion According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagoevgrad Province
Blagoevgrad Province ( bg, област Благоевград, ''oblast Blagoevgrad'' or Благоевградска област, ''Blagoevgradska oblast''), also known as Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia ( bg, Пиринска Македония; Българска Македония), (''Pirinska Makedoniya or Bulgarska Makedoniya'') is a province (''oblast'') of southwestern Bulgaria. It borders four other Bulgarian provinces to the north and east, the Greek region of Macedonia to the south, and North Macedonia to the west. The province has 14 municipalities with 12 towns. Its principal city is Blagoevgrad, while other significant towns include Bansko, Gotse Delchev, Melnik, Petrich, Razlog, Sandanski, and Simitli. Geography and climate Geography The province has a territory of and a population of 323,552 (). It is the third largest in Bulgaria after Burgas and Sofia Provinces and comprises 5.8% of the country's territory. Blagoevgrad Province includes the mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pobit Kamak, Pazardzhik
Pobit Kamak () is a village located in Sarnitsa Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria. The population is 641. Geography The village is situated on the western Rhodopes, a mountainous region, encompassing it on all sides. It is surrounded by mountain hills - to the south-west Divite kozi, while to the south - the 1938 metres high Beslet Peak. Religion Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ... is the predominant religion in the village. References Villages in Pazardzhik Province {{Pazardzhik-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medeni Polyani
Medeni Polyani () is a village located in Sarnitsa Municipality, Southern Bulgaria. Geography The village is located in the Western Rhodopes, a mountainous area. The elevation is about 1430 meters. It is near the permanently populated areas of Pobit Kamak and Sarnitsa. History The old name of the village was Nova Mahala (; ) Religion The population is predominately Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah .... References Villages in Pazardzhik Province {{Pazardzhik-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
