Rosen ( bg, Росен) is a village in
Sozopol Municipality
Sozopol Municipality ( bg, Община Созопол, ) is located in the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and borders Burgas Municipality and Primorsko Municipality. The coast stretches 51 km of which 17.1 km are excellent beache ...
, in
Burgas Province, in south-eastern
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 ...
. As of 2013 it has 1470 inhabitants.
The village is situated at the river Rosenska, a tributary to the
Ropotamo, at the western foothills of
Medni Rid Ridge, which is the north-eastern extreme of the
Bosna Ridge in the
Strandzha Mountains. It is located at about 22 km south of
Burgas and 19 km of the municipal centre
Sozopol on the
Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
The vestiges of the medieval fortress of Krimna are situated at Bakarlaka peak in Medni Rid. In 1328 the Bulgarian emperor
Michael Shishman
Michael Asen III ( bg, Михаил Асен III, ''Mihail Asen III'', commonly called Michael Shishman (Михаил Шишман, ''Mihail Šišman'')), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria from 1323 to 1330. The exact year of his birth is unknown but it w ...
and the Byzantine emperor
Andronikos III Palaiologos
, image = Andronikos_III_Palaiologos.jpg
, caption = 14th-century miniature. Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek.
, succession = Byzantine emperor
, reign = 24 May 1328 – 15 June 1341
, coronation = ...
signed an alliance treaty there.
The first school in what is now Sozopol Municipality was established in Rosen in 1830. The Church of Saint George was constructed in 1882.
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Villages in Burgas Province
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