Malko Tarnovo ( , "Little Tarnovo"; as opposed to

Veliko Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo (, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the historical and spiritual capital of Bulgaria. Often referred to as the "''City of the Tsars''", Velik ...

) is a town 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 ...

, southeastern

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, 5 km from the Turkish border. It is the only town in the interior of the Bulgarian Strandzha Mountains and lies in Strandzha Nature Park. Malko Tarnovo is the administrative centre of the homonymous Malko Tarnovo Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had 2,449 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009

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is the dominant religion in the town, where an

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism ...

and an Eastern Rite Catholic church exist. According to Lyubomir Miletich's demographic survey of the Ottoman province of

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in '' The Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913'', published in 1918, before the wars Malko Tarnovo was a district centre inhabited by 1,200 Bulgarian Exarchist families and 80 Eastern Catholic Bulgarian families. Before the

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(1912–1913), Malko Tarnovo was a township (''

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'') of the Kırklareli ''

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'' in

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'' as "Tırnovacık" that was ceded to Bulgaria following the wars. Since 25 October 1913, it has been within the borders of Bulgaria.

Municipality

Malko Tarnovo is the seat of Malko Tarnovo municipality, part of Burgas Province. It includes the following 14 localities:

Gallery

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References

External links

Malko Tarnovo municipality

Malko Tarnovo municipal website

Website of the Malko Tarnovo regional court

Malko Tarnovo at Journey.bg
Populated places in Burgas Province Bulgaria–Turkey border crossings {{Burgas-geo-stub