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Popovo is a town in northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in Targovishte region and is the second-largest town in area after Targovishte. The city is the administrative center of Popovo Municipality.

The whole territory of the municipality is 833.398 sq.m. It borders with the municipalities of Targovishte, Antonovo, Strazhitsa, Byala, Dve mogili, Opaka, Tsar Kaloyan, Razgrad and Loznitsa. The town is located 37 km from town of Targovishte, 76 km from town of Shumen and 156 km from city of Varna.

The town is situated in the Danube plain. It comprises various reliefs with dominating hills.

The altitude ranges from 138 m to 488 m above sea level.

The climate is mild-continental, characterized with cold winters and the hot summers.

The population of Popovo is around 15 000 people.

The administrative mapping of the municipality of Popovo involves 35 places of population – 1 town and 34 villages. The largest villages are Sadina, Kardam, Svetlen, Slavyanovo, Lomtsi and Zaraevo. Nine villages boast populations of over 1000 individuals, and in two other live less than 100 people.

Climate and terrain

Popovo is located in the eastern high plateau of the Danube Plain subregion. 

The terrain is varied, with predominant rolling plain with rolling hills at an altitude of 138 to 488 m, with a plateau plateau plateau, cut by deep valleys of Cherni Lom, Lom Small, Big River and their tributaries.

The number of small dams constructed whose water is used for irrigation, fish farming and fishing.

The climate of the area is temperate-continental. Winter is cold, during the winter months are blowing cold northeast winds. Powerful snowstorms in winter cause snow drifts that hamper transportation. Spring comes early - around mid March. Despite the relatively high altitude and proximity to the Balkan Mountains, summer is usually hot and dry.

HISTORY

The lands of Popovo still bear witness to the lives of tribes and peoples lost long ago in the history of ages. The town’s site has made Popovo an indelible part of the country’s cultural and spiritual centre, made up by Bulgaria’s three former capital cities of Pliska, Preslav and Veliko Turnovo.
The written evidence on Popovo’s earliest history is quite scarce. Various archaeological findings point out existence of civilization there in the very antiquity of the human world. The earliest sources date back to the 6th millennium BC. In former days, the territory of the present-day municipality was inhabited by Thracian tribes, which were conquered by the Romans in the first century AD. Under Roman rule, the area was teeming with new settlements, roads and strongholds. It was then when the district formed as a ceramics production centre, catering building needs, and the initial Thracian settlement turned into a city-like castle, whose prime was in the 3–4th c. AD.
Also, the remains of a medieval city were unveiled nearby the present location of Popovo. In the dramatic year of 1388, the area became subject to Ottoman rule, which lasted until 1878. This long, five-centennial period made a profound impact on the ethnic texture of the population.
After the Liberation, Popovo was fast to develop as commercial, administrative and cultural centre to one of the 56 regions of the then Bulgaria.

Economics

In recent years, the efforts of the municipality are directed towards the development of tourism, using the favorable location of the city to other major towns, natural beauty of the region and its cultural wealth.
Under various projects, won by municipalities and other non-govrenmental organizations, have been repaired the central part of the city, sewers, streets and public works as a whole.

Health care

In Popovo is functioning "General Hospital - Popovo Ltd.", which has almost 100 years of history. It is located in the southwest part of the town and has 110 beds in several fixed compartments.

EDUCATION, CULTURE AND LEISURE

The town has six kindergartens, three primary schools, three secondary schools and one special school.

On the territoty of the municipality are operating 33 community centers that preserve, develop, promote and implement cultural activities and arts. All of them have libraries with reading rooms, the largest of which is in the National Community Center "St. Cyril and Methodius - 1881. "

Community center "St. St. Cyril and Methodius - 1881" dates from 1891 and has music school (teaching the accordion, synthesizer, piano, musical instruments, guitar), children's choir, stock majorette and modern dance; circle art, vocal group etnorabotilnitsa; Cinema Club and theater workshop. It won a project and the  building is mainly repaired and rebuilt in 2010.

In Popovo function also: private art gallery "Art-TT", Cultural National Theatre, Summer Theatre, Historical Museum with four departments / "Archaeology", "Ethnology" (ethnography), "Modern and Contemporary History" and "Art "/ and the Municipal House of Culture, which carries a rich and varied cultural activities throughout the municipality.

Popovo has a Town garden. It is located in the southeastern part of the city and is almost reaching the lake "Kavatsite" to the east and north. Around the lanes today can be seen a number of species of deciduous and coniferous trees. There are also a playground with swings and slides, two fountains, fountain, little summer coffee, modern complex with a new swimming pool, bar, restaurant and disco summer.

The Russian Monument is located north of the outskirts of the city and was declared a cultural monument.

Transportation

Popovo has a favorable geographical location in relation to major infrastructure corridors in the country. This is a positive factor that affects economic development. It is located in the middle of a triangle, closing the main roads E-85 /Veliko Tarnovo-Ruse/, E-70 /Shumen-Varna-Ruse/ and E-71 /Veliko Tarnovo-Targovishte-Shumen-Varna/, which are elements of the European road network.

They are used to provide access to border checkpoint in Ruse /97 km/ and thence to North, Central and Eastern Europe along the Danube, with road and rail link. In the municipality passes the main railway Sofia-Varna. The railway station on this train line is south of Popovo, for the transportation of passengers is assured bus.

The local bus station is located in the city center and provides transport to small towns and villages of the municipality, as well as to big cities like Targovishte (36 km), Veliko Tarnovo (75 km), Ruse (75 km), Razgrad (35 km), Opaka (15 km), Gabrovo (115 km), Varna (175 km), Sofia (300 km).

 

Internet resources: http://www.popovo.bghttp://bg.wikipedia.org

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