Suvorovo ( bg, Суворово, ) is a town in northeastern
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 Macedo ...
, part of
Varna Province
Varna Province ( bg, Област Варна, translit=Oblast Varna), formerly known as Varna okrug, is a province in eastern Bulgaria, one of the 28 Bulgarian provinces. It comprises 12 municipalities with a population of 494,216 inhabitants as ...
. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous
Suvorovo Municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of the Province. The town is located in the southwestern part of the
Dobruja
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plateau, northwest of the provincial capital of
Varna
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**Lake Varna
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* Varna (Šaba ...
, southwest of
Dobrich and east of
Shumen. As of December 2009, it has a population of 4,723 inhabitants.
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Suvorovo was originally named Kozludža during the Ottoman era
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
(''Kozluca'' in modern Turkish), usually spelled Kozludzha or Kozludja ( bg, Козлуджа); this name still persists in Turkish. In 1934 it was renamed Novgradets ( bg, Новградец). Its present name is in honor of Generalissimus Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, Aleksándr Vasíl'yevich Suvórov; or 1730) was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy ...
, one of the famous Russia
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n military commanders, who won a decisive battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 in the vicinity of the modern town. The town has a historical museum, a community centre (''chitalishte
A ''chitalishte'' (, . Derives from the verb "чета" - "to read" or "читател" - "reader") is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building that fulfills several functions at once, such as a community centre, library, and a theat ...
''), an Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
church dedicated to the Ascension of Jesus
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate la, ascensio Iesu, lit=ascent of Jesus) is the Christian teaching that Christ physically departed from Earth by rising to Heaven, in the presence of eleven of his apostles. According to th ...
and a mosque.
Municipality
Suvorovo municipality covers an area of (of which 61% arable) includes the following 9 places:
Notable natives of the municipality include Esoteric Christian spiritual leader Peter Dunov (born in Nikolaevka; 1864–1944) and Movement for Rights and Freedoms
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( bg, Движение за права и свободи ''Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi'', ДПС, DPS; tr, Hak ve Özgürlükler Hareketi, HÖH) is a centrist political party in Bulgaria with a support base ...
president Ahmed Doğan (born in Pchelarovo, but spent his childhood in Drandar; 1954-)
Points of interest
Bulgaria's only 750 kV power substation is located just west of Suvorovo, at 43°18'52"N 27°30'25"E.
References
External links
Suvorovo municipality website
www.suvorovo.net - main site of the SUVOROVO city
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Varna Province
Alexander Suvorov
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