Valchedram ( ; also transliterated ''Vǎlčedrǎm'', ''Vulchedrum'', etc.) is a town in northwestern
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
, part of
Montana Province
Montana Province (, transliterated: ''Oblast Montana'') is a Provinces of Bulgaria, province in northwestern Bulgaria, bordering Serbia in the southwest and Romania in the north. It spreads its area between the Danube river and the Balkan Mountai ...
. It is the administrative centre of
Valchedram Municipality
Valchedram Municipality () is a frontier municipality ('' obshtina'') in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Valc ...
, which lies in the northeastern part of Montana Province. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 3,817.
[Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009]
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Valchedram is located in the western Danubian Plain, near the Tsibritsa and Danube
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rivers. The first school in Valchedram was founded in 1780. The town has an imposing Bulgarian Orthodox
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church of Saint Paraskeva (built in 1936), as well as a small museum.
Municipality
Valchedram municipality covers an area of 426 square kilometres and includes the following 11 places:
Besides the villages, the municipality also includes the Ibisha Island nature reserve
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in the Danube. The population is mostly Bulgarian, with a significant Roma
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minority (around 30%).
Gallery
Image:Valchedram-Church-Iankov-IFB.JPG, Church of Saint Paraskeva (1936)
Image:Valchedram-Monument-Iankov-IFB.JPG, Monument to the war victims
References
External links
Valchedram municipality website
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Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Montana Province
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