Kamenyak is a village in
Ruen Municipality
Ruen Municipality ( Bulgarian: Община Руен, ''Obshtina Ruen'') is a municipality in Burgas Province, Bulgaria. It includes the town of Ruen and a number of villages.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered t ...
, in
Burgas Province
Burgas (, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and industrial centre, the city of Burgas, the fourth biggest town in the countr ...
, in southeastern
Bulgaria
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.
Geography
The village of Kamenyak is located 7–8 km north of the municipal center, the village of Ruen and about 9 km east of the village of
Daskotna. It is located in the
Eastern Stara Planina, in the western part of the Eminska Mountain at its connection with the neighboring Kamchiyska Mountain. It is built on the ridge of a small hill with east–west direction. The altitude in its higher eastern part reaches about 500 m, and in the center of the town hall is about 475 m. Municipal roads connect Kamenyak with the neighboring villages: to the south through
Dobra Polyana with Ruen, to the north - with
Zaimchevo and
Snezha.
The population of the village of Kamenyak, numbering 242 people by 1934, after several sharp fluctuations in the number - a maximum of 356 by 1965 - numbers by 2018 (according to current demographic statistics for the population) 179 people.
In the census of 1 February 2011, out of a total of 229 persons, 213 persons were indicated as belonging to a "Turkish" ethnic group and the rest were not answered.
History
After the end of the
Russian-Turkish War
The Russo-Turkish wars ( ), or the Russo-Ottoman wars (), began in 1568 and continued intermittently until 1918. They consisted of twelve conflicts in total, making them one of the longest series of wars in the history of Europe. All but four of ...
of 1877–1878, under the
Berlin Treaty, the village remained on the territory of
Eastern Rumelia
Eastern Rumelia (; ; ) was an autonomous province (''oblast'' in Bulgarian, ''vilayet'' in Turkish) of the Ottoman Empire with a total area of , which was created in 1878 by virtue of the Treaty of Berlin (1878), Treaty of Berlin and ''de facto'' ...
. Since 1885 - after the
Union, it is located in Bulgaria under the name Tashlik. It was renamed Kamenyak in 1934.
Religion
The religion practiced in the village of Kamenyak is Islam.
As of 2021 Kamenyak has a working Mosque.
References
{{Ruen Municipality
Villages in Burgas Province