Kamen Bryag is a
village
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in northeastern
Bulgaria
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.
It is located in
Kavarna Municipality
Kavarna Municipality ( bg, Община Каварна) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is named after its ...
,
Dobrich Province
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, on the
Black Sea
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coast. The population was 76 in 2009.
Yailata National Archaeological Reserve is located two kilometers south of the village.
History
Old names
Kamennik - Medieval, not sufficiently confirmed.
Kaya Bey Kyo - by the Ottoman authorities - literally translated "The Village of the Stone Master". The name of the village originates from the lone rock in front of the Little Egg on the seashore in front of the village, symbolizing its location, as well as in general the rocky coast about kilometers high, not less than 30 meters high. In the area is also the Yaylata locality, which is a huge stone formation.
Stânca - during the Roman rule of 1919–1940.
Only Bulgarians live in Kamen Bryag, some of whom are descendants of immigrants from the Balkans (Kotlensko and Elensko), and another part - descendants of immigrants from Romania - who came in the early 1940s as a result of the Craiova Agreement. Like most villages in the area, the elderly population before the migration of Balkanis belongs to the Gagauz ethnographic group.
Population
The population of the village consists entirely of ethnic
Bulgarians
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Etymology
Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely unders ...
, descendants of settlers from the
Balkan Mountains (
Kotel and
Elena
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regions) and Southern
Romania
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. A compact group of ethnic Bulgarians, who previously inhabited
Northern Dobruja, settled in Kamen Bryag as a result of the
Treaty of Craiova
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.
As of the 2000s, the village is a popular summer holiday destination.
Cultural and natural sights
2 km south of the village is the archeological site "Yailata" with numerous tombs, stone dwellings and an early Byzantine fortress wall. To the northwest of the village is a large necropolis of Scythian tombs. At the entrance of Yailata, a Thracian altar of the sun is discovered and cleared. There are a number of megalithic monuments along the high coasts north and south of the village.
On July 25, 2007, an information center was opened in the village providing information about the Yaylata archeological reserve and other tourist sites in the region.
About 1.5 km from Yailata is the Lamb, a gas field from the late 1950s that has been burning to this day.
Image gallery
File:July Morning 07.jpg, July Morning 2007 at Kamen Bryag with ex- Uriah Heep's John Lawton
References
External links
Yailata archaeological reserveMore information about Kamen Bryag
Villages in Dobrich Province
Populated coastal places in Bulgaria
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