Malko Tarnovo

Malko Tarnovo Малко Търново
Coat of arms
Malko Tarnovo Location of Malko Tarnovo
Coordinates: 41°59′N 27°32′E / 41.983°N 27.533°E / 41.983; 27.533Coordinates: 41°59′N 27°32′E / 41.983°N 27.533°E / 41.983; 27.533
Country	Bulgaria
Provinces (Oblast)	Burgas
Government
- Mayor	Ivan Ivanov
Elevation	348 m (1,142 ft)
Population (December 2009)[1]
- Total	2,449
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	8350
Area code(s)	05952

Malko Tarnovo (Bulgarian: Малко Търново; "Little Tarnovo", as opposed to Veliko Tarnovo) is a town in Burgas Province, Southeastern Bulgaria, located 5 km away from the Turkish border. It is the only town in the interior of the Bulgarian Strandzha Mountains. Malko Tarnovo is the administrative centre of the homonymous Malko Tarnovo Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,449 inhabitants.^[1]

Historic buildings in Malko Tarnovo

Christianity is the dominant religion in the town, where an Eastern Orthodox and an Eastern Rite Catholic church exist. According to Lyubomir Miletich's demographic survey of the Ottoman province of Edirne 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.^[2]

Prior to the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), Malko Tarnovo was a township (kaza) of the Kırklareli sanjak in Edirne vilayet as "Tırnovacık", and was ceded to Bulgaria following the wars.

Municipality

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

Bliznak Brashlyan Byala voda Evrenozovo Gramatikovo Kalovo Malko Tarnovo

Mladezhko Slivarovo Stoilovo Trakiytsi Vizitsa Zabernovo Zvezdets

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References

1. ^ ^{a b} (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009
2. ^ Милетичъ, Любомир (1918). "Статистиченъ прѣгледъ на българското население въ Одринския виляетъ" (in Bulgarian). Разорението на тракийскитѣ българи презъ 1913 година. София: Българска академия на науките. p. 298. http://promacedonia.com/bmark/lm_tr/lm_tr_pril_1.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-06. 

External links

• Malko Tarnovo municipality
• Malko Tarnovo municipal website
• Website of the Malko Tarnovo regional court
• Malko Tarnovo at Journey.bg