Dolna Mitropoliya ( bg, Долна Митрополия , "Lower Bishopric"; also transliterated as Dolna Mitropolia, Dolna Mitropolija) is a town in
Pleven Province
Pleven Province ( bg, Област Плевен or Плевенска Област) is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It i ...
of northern
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 ...
, the administrative center of
Dolna Mitropoliya municipality. It is about 10 km northwest of the city of
Pleven
Pleven ( bg, Плèвен ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest ...
. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 3,303 inhabitants.
[Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009]
Adjacent to the town is
Dolna Mitropoliya Air Base
Dolna Mitropoliya Air Base ( bg, Летище Долна Митрополия, ) is a public use airport near Dolna Mitropoliya, Pleven, Bulgaria. It is the home of the aviation faculty of the National Defence University. The 12th Air Training Wi ...
, home of the aviation faculty of the
National Defence University. The 12th Air Training Wing is stationed there. The aviation school was created in 1945 and named after
Georgi Benkovski. The school moved to Dolna Mitropoliya in 1948, and in 2002 was incorporated as part of the National Defence University.
Dolna Mitropoliya has the second Bulgarian automobile race track, and its first and only supermoto track. The first motorcycle race was held there in 1992.
References
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Pleven Province
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