Valchi Dol ( bg, Вълчи дол ; also transliterated ''Vǎlči Dol'') 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
Valchi Dol Municipality
Valchi Dol Municipality ( bg, Община Вълчи Дол) is a Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Valchi Dol.
The municip ...
, which lies in the northwestern part of the Province. In December 2009 the town had 3,460 inhabitants.
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Valchi Dol is located at the watershed of the Dobruja
Dobruja or Dobrudja (; bg, Добруджа, Dobrudzha or ''Dobrudža''; ro, Dobrogea, or ; tr, Dobruca) is a historical region in the Balkans that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania. I ...
, Varna
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*Varna, Bulgaria, a city in Bulgaria
**Varna Province
**Varna Municipality
** Gulf of Varna
**Lake Varna
**Varna Necropolis
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* Varna (Šaba ...
and Shumen plateaux. Its name means "wolf
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly un ...
's ravine" in Bulgarian, which is also reflected in its old Ottoman Turkish name, ''Kurtdere''. It was a village, until proclaimed a town in 1974. A diesel power plant was installed in 1929, the first in a village in Bulgaria.
References
External links
Valchi Dol municipality website
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Varna Province
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