Strazhitsa ( bg, Стражица, Stražica, ) is a town in northeastern
Bulgaria, part of
Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous
Strazhitsa Municipality
Strazhitsa Municipality ( bg, Община Стражица ) is a municipality (''obshtina'') in Veliko Tarnovo Province, north-central Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain but also covering parts of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is na ...
, which lies in the eastern part of the Province. The town is located in the central
Danubian Plain, not far from the
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border betw ...
, 45 kilometres northeast of the provincial capital of
Veliko Tarnovo. As of December 2009, it has a population of 5,170 inhabitants.
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Strazhitsa has a railway station on the Sofia- Varna railway line, located some 33 km from the railway station of Popovo and some 27 km from the railway station of Gorna Oryahovitsa.
The town was badly damaged by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 on 7 December 1986. Strazhitsa has an art gallery, an Eastern Orthodox church dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God, as well as a museum of local history. Strazhitsa's name comes from the Bulgarian root ''strazh'' (страж), meaning "guard".
Municipality
Strazhitsa municipality covers an area of and includes the following 22 places:
* Asenovo
* Balkantsi
* Blagoevo
* Bryagovitsa
* Gorski Senovets
* Kamen
* Kavlak
* Kesarevo
* Lozen
* Lyubentsi
* Mirovo
* Nikolaevo
* Novo Gradishte
* Nova Varbovka
* Strazhitsa
* Sushitsa
* Temenuga
Temenuga ( bg, Теменуга) is a village in Ardino Municipality
Ardino Municipality is a municipality in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria. It includes the town of Ardino and 51 nearby villages.
Demographics
As of December 2018, the municipalit ...
* Tsarski Izvor
* Vinograd
* Vladislav
* Vodno
* Zhelezartsi
References
External links
Strazhitsa municipality website
SOU"Angel Karaliichev" Strazhitsa
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Veliko Tarnovo Province
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