Thompson, Bulgaria

Thompson, Bulgaria

Thompson ( _bg. Томпсън, Bulgarian pronunciation: ; also transliterated "Tompsan", "Tompsun", "Tompsǎn" or "Tompson") is a village in central western Bulgaria, part of Svoge municipality, Sofia Province. As of 2008, it has a population of 838 [http://grao.bg/tna/tab02.txt] and the mayor is Kiril Tsvetanov. Thompson lies at coord|42|56|N|23|23|E, 729 metres above mean sea level.

The village lies in the scenic Iskar Gorge of the western Balkan Mountains. It is a railway station on the Bulgarian State Railways' Sofia-Mezdra railway line. It was founded shortly after World War II through the merger of the neighbouring villages of Livage, Lipata, Tsarevi Stragi, Malak Babul, Babul and Zavoya. Thompson was named after the British officer William Frank Thompson (1920-1944), liaison officer between the British Army and the Bulgarian communist and antifascist partisans during the war, who was captured by the Bulgarian Gendarmerie and executed in the nearby village of Lilakovo on 10 June 1944.

The village has two monuments to Major Thompson, one unveiled on 13 May 2007 in front of the mayor's office "( [http://www.4coolpics.com/photo/VyacheslavPopov/204006.html see photo] )" that uses natural light to project Thompson's image over a plaque, and one at the railway station.

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