Makovo (Makowo, Kochashlii, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) is a village in

Targovishte Municipality Targovishte Municipality ( bg, Община Търговище) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It ...

, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria. As of 2009 it had a population of 298.

History

Archaeological excavations have shown that the village existed at least as far back as the 7th century CE as part of the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

. When Bulgaria became independent, the village was entirely Muslim, and it remains mostly so to this day. The first mayor was elected in 1883 and the first school was opened in 1898. In 1909 a mill was built.

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