Yovkovo ( bg, Йовково ) is a village in
General Toshevo Municipality
General Toshevo Municipality ( bg, Община Генерал Тошево) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in Southern Dobruja geographical region, bounded by Romania to the north. It is name ...
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Dobrich Province
Dobrich Province ( bg, Област Добрич, , former name Dobrich okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is bounded on east by the Black Sea, on south by Varna Province, on west by ...
, 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 ...
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Guide Bulgaria
Accessed May 23, 2010 The village is named after Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Stefanov Yovkov ( bg, Йордан Стефанов Йовков) (November 9, 1880 – October 15, 1937) was a prominent Bulgarian writer from the interwar period.
Biography
Born in the village of Zheravna, Yovkov studied at First Sofia M ...
in 1942. Its Turkish name was Chifut Kyusu ( bg, Чифут Куюсу; tr, Çıfıt Kuyusu).
The village has a population of 256 people (as of 2019), down from its peak of 782 inhabitants in 1985. The population consists mainly of ethnic Turks
Turk or Turks may refer to:
Communities and ethnic groups
* Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
* Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
* Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...
and Tatars
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different . The village used to be part of Romania between 1913 and 1940.
References
Villages in Dobrich Province
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