Venchan ( bg, Венчан) is a village in the
Provadiya Municipality
Provadia Municipality ( bg, Община Провадия) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Provadia.
The municipality embraces a territory of w ...
,
Varna Province, north-eastern
Bulgaria. It is situated at 7 km to the north-west of
Provadiya. As of 2007 the village has 364 inhabitants.
Venchan is among the oldest settlements in the surrounding area. There are remains of a Thracian necropolis dated to the 7th-6th centuries BC. The ruins of an antique and medieval fortress. In 1388 the fortress was seized after a fierce resistance by a 30,000-strong Ottoman during a major campaign against the
Bulgarian Empire
In the medieval history of Europe, Bulgaria's status as the Bulgarian Empire ( bg, Българско царство, ''Balgarsko tsarstvo'' ) occurred in two distinct periods: between the seventh and the eleventh centuries and again between the ...
and the settlement was occupied by the Ottomans. The construction of the railway between
Ruse and
Varna in 1866 which passed through the village and brought some economic prosperity.
Honours
Venchan Peak on
Brabant Island, Antarctica is named after the village.
Footnotes
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Villages in Varna Province