Kudelin ( bg, Куделин) is a village in the

Bregovo Municipality Bregovo Municipality ( bg, Община Брегово) is a frontier municipality ('' obshtina'') in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative ...

of the

Vidin Province Vidin Province () is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities. As of De ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

Geography

Kudelin lies mostly on a plain lying around above sea level, the square in front of the town hall being the highest terrestrial point. It is about east of the

River Timok The Timok ( Serbian and Bulgarian: Тимок; ro, Timoc), sometimes also known as Great Timok ( sr, Велики Тимок, Veliki Timok; ro, Timocul Mare), is a river in eastern Serbia, a right tributary of the Danube. For the last 15 ...

, which forms the border with

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from its mouth at the confluence with the

River Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...

to the north to the border with Romania to the southeast.

Demography

In 1934, the population of Kudelin was 433. By 1975 it reached its maximum of 586, decreasing to 405 people by 2001, and 317 by 2018. At the 2011 census, the population was 385, of which 96.1% were ethnically Bulgarian. Local people earn their living mainly from cereal farming. The Danube and Timok rivers are used for recreation and fishing.

History

Historically, the village was called "Wallachian Rakovica" ( bg, Влашка Раковица). In 1934 it was renamed after Kudelin, a joint ruler of Braničevo at the end of the 13th century. At the outbreak of

First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...

in 1912, a local man enlisted in the

Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps The Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps ( bg, Македоно-одринско опълчение, ''Makedono-odrinsko opalchenie'') was a volunteer corps of the Bulgarian Army during the Balkan Wars. It was formed on 23 September 1912 an ...

. The first lighthouse on Bulgaria's shore of the Danube was built in Kudelin.

References

{{bulgaria-geo-stub Villages in Vidin Province