Varbitsa (other)
Varbitsa (, "little willow") may refer to the following places in Bulgaria: * Varbitsa (town), a town in Shumen Province ** Varbitsa Municipality ** Varbitsa Pass in the Balkan Mountains * Varbitsa, Haskovo Province, a village in Haskovo Province * Varbitsa, Pleven Province, a village in Pleven Province * Varbitsa, Veliko Tarnovo Province, a village in Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province * Varbitsa (river), a river in the Rhodope Mountains See also

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Varbitsa (town)
Varbitsa ( bg, Върбица ; ; also transliterated ''Vǎrbica'') is a town in eastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is the administrative centre of Varbitsa Municipality, which lies in the southwestern part of Shumen Province. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 3,585 inhabitants. Varbitsa is located in the southeastern Danubian Plain, at the foot of the eastern Balkan Mountains, on both banks of the Gerila river. The area was populated in Antiquity by the Thracians and Romans, while the Slavs and Bulgars arrived in the Early Middle Ages. It is thought that the first ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, Asparuh, settled the Severians in the region of the Varbitsa Pass in order to guard it in the 7th century. The pass was the site of the Battle of Pliska on 26 July 811, during which Krum of Bulgaria's forces routed the Byzantine army, killing and beheading Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I ( gr, Νικηφόρος; ...
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