Smyadovo ( bg, Смядово, ; ISO transliterated ''Smjadovo'') is a town in 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 ...

, part of

Shumen Province Shumen Province ( bg, Област Шумен, transliterated ''Oblast Shumen'', former name Shumen okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria named after its main city Shumen. It is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as ...

. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous

Smyadovo Municipality Smyadovo Municipality ( bg, Община Смядово) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the vicinity of the northern slopes of the Eastern Stara planina mountain to the area of the so-calle ...

, which lies in the southeastern part of the province. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 4,036 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
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Alexandrina Miltcheva Alexandrina Miltcheva (born 27 November 1934, in Smyadovo) is a Bulgarian operatic mezzo-soprano. Career After making her debut at the State Opera of Varna as Dorabella in Mozart's '' Così fan tutte'', she won first prize at the Concours i ...

was born in Smyadovo on 27 November 1934. Smyadovo lies in the southeastern Danubian Plain, at the northern foot of the eastern

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. It was first mentioned in early Ottoman times (

Evliya Çelebi Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi ( ota, اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording ...

mentions it as ''Smedovak'') and was proclaimed a town in 1969.

Smyadovo Cove Smyadovo Cove ( bg, залив Смядово, zaliv Smyadovo, ) is a 900-meter wide cove indenting for 850 m the west coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. E ...

in Rugged Island in the

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is named after Smyadovo.

Municipality

Smyadovo municipality covers an area of 354 square kilometres (of which 180 square kilometres arable) and includes the following 10 places: * Aleksandrovo * Byal Bryag *

Cherni Vrah Cherni Vrah ( bg, Черни връх , "Black Peak") is the summit of Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria. Rising to 2290 m, the peak is the fourth highest mountain summit in the country after Musala (2925 m, Rila Mountain), Vihren (2914 ...

* Kalnovo *

Novo Yankovo ''Novo'' is a 2002 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin and starring Eduardo Noriega. The film tells the story of a man who suffers from amnesia. It screened at the Locarno Film Festival. Plot Graham suffers from severe am ...

Rish Rish ( bg, Риш Riš) is a village in Smyadovo Municipality, Shumen Province, Bulgaria, with a population of 604 as of 2019. Population According to the 2011 Census, the population of Rish consists mainly of Bulgarian Turks (72.6%), followe ...

* Smyadovo * Veselinovo *

Yankovo Yankovo ( bg, Янково) is a village in Eastern Bulgaria, part of the Smyadovo municipality of Shumen Province. It is located on the Kamchiya The Kamchiya (also Kamchia and Kamčija, bg, Камчия ) is a river in eastern Bulgaria. Fro ...

* Zhelad

References

External links

Web page about Smyadovo
Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Shumen Province {{Shumen-geo-stub