Sredets ( Bulgarian : Средец [srɛˈdɛt͡s] ) is a town in Burgas Province in southeastern Bulgaria . It is located near Lake Mandrensko and the northern slopes of Strandzha . Sredets is the administrative centre of Sredets Municipality .
9-526: Sredets may refer to: Sredets, Burgas Province , a town in eastern Bulgaria previously known as Karabunar and Grudovo Sredets (medieval Bulgaria) , a historical name of today's Sofia, Bulgaria Sredets, Sofia , a city district in Sofia Sredets, Stara Zagora Province , a village in Opan Municipality , central Bulgaria Sredets, Smolyan Province ,
18-589: A village in Nedelino Municipality, south-central Bulgaria [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sredets&oldid=1229016209 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
27-543: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sredets, Burgas Province Sredets Point on Smith Island , Antarctica is named after the town. The Roman fortress of Kaleto, located 2 km southwest of Sredets, was constructed at the end of the fifth and beginning of sixth century AD. Under the First Bulgarian Empire , the fortress became known as Potamukastel ( Bulgarian : Потамукастел ). Potamukastel
36-600: Is known to have stayed overnight in the village in 1713 en route to Constantinople , and St. Sophronius of Vratsa worked as a teacher in Karabunar in 1792–1793. Russian Army data from 1827 mentions it as a purely Bulgarian village and it was visited by Vasil Levski in 1868. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 , the area was occupied by the Russian 93rd Irkutsk Infantry Regiment on 16 February 1878. Karabunar became part of
45-592: 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 country. It is the largest province by area, with a territory of 7,748.1 km (2,991.6 sq mi) that is divided into 13 municipalities. It has a total population, as of December 2009, of 422,319 inhabitants. Burgas Province (област, oblast ) contains 13 municipalities. The following table shows
54-559: The autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia after the war and was annexed by the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885. The village was renamed Sredets on 14 August 1934. Under Communist rule, the village was renamed Grudovo on 1 June 1950 in honour of Todor Grudov, a leader of the Communist September Uprising of 1923 and former mayor of the village. Grudovo was granted the status of town on 6 February 1960 and, following
63-526: The fall of Communism in Bulgaria, on 23 January 1993, the town was renamed Sredets. Sredets is also the seat of Sredets municipality (part of Burgas Province), which in addition to the town also includes the following 31 villages: This Burgas Province , Bulgaria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Burgas Province Burgas Province ( Bulgarian : Област Бургас , romanized : Oblast Burgas , formerly
72-875: The names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic , the main town or village (towns are shown in bold), and the population of each as of 2009. Burgas Province had a population of 423,608 (423,547 also given) according to a 2001 census , of which 49% were male and 51% were female . As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 422,319 of which 21.8% are inhabitants aged over 60 years. Total population (2011 census): 415,817 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 370,544 persons: A further 45,000 persons in Burgas Province did not declare their ethnic group at
81-539: Was destroyed in the 11th century, but later rebuilt in the 12th century AD. The fortress was abandoned during Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, and the population of Potamukastel resettled at the location of the modern town and founded the village of Karabunar ( Bulgarian : Карабунар ) ("black well" in Turkish ). Karabunar is first mentioned in 1595, and is later found in Ottoman tax registers from 1676–1731. King Charles XII of Sweden
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