Balvan, Bulgaria

Balvan
Balvan; Балван
	Village
	Balvan
	Coordinates: 43°05′09″N25°24′44″E / 43.08583°N 25.41222°E Coordinates: 43°05′09″N25°24′44″E / 43.08583°N 25.41222°E
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Veliko Tarnovo
Municipality	Veliko Tarnovo Municipality
Government
• Mayor	Rostislav Hristov
Area
• Total	33,670 km2 (13,000 sq mi)
Elevation	134 m (440 ft)
Population
• Total	601
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Post code	5064
Area code(s)	06113

Last updated March 13, 2019

Balvan is a village of Veliko Tarnovo Province, North Bulgaria. The village is about 16 kilometers away from Pavlikeni and around 19 kilometers away from Veliko Tarnovo.

Veliko Tarnovo is a province in the middle of the northern part of Bulgaria. Its capital city, Veliko Tarnovo, is of historical significance as it is known as the capital of Medieval Bulgaria. The province is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 275,395 inhabitants.

Pavlikeni is a town in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Northern Bulgaria, about 41 kilometers away from the city of Veliko Tarnovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Pavlikeni Municipality. As of December 2010, the town has a population of 11,604 inhabitants.

History

During the Liberation of Bulgaria around 60% of the population were Turkish. The village Vetrenci was the Bulgarian part of the village since 1944.After 1944 the population and the economy of the village grow up. It was made a new place for the farm machines and made mill and produce bread for many places in Veliko Tarnovo province.

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country.

Turkish people or the Turks, also known as Anatolian Turks, are a Turkic ethnic group and nation living mainly in Turkey and speaking Turkish, the most widely spoken Turkic language. They are the largest ethnic group in Turkey, as well as by far the largest ethnic group among the speakers of Turkic languages. Ethnic Turkish minorities exist in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. In addition, a Turkish diaspora has been established with modern migration, particularly in Western Europe.

Farming

The head production in the village is for bakery. It had different varieties of wheat and rye.

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat.

Rye is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) and is closely related to barley and wheat (Triticum). Rye grain is used for flour, bread, beer, crisp bread, some whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder. It can also be eaten whole, either as boiled rye berries or by being rolled, similar to rolled oats.

Honour

Balvan Point on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica is named after Balvan.

Balvan Point is the rocky point on the south side of the entrance to Solari Bay on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. It was formed as a result of the break-up of Larsen Ice Shelf in the area in the late 20th century. The feature is named after the settlement of Balvan in Northern Bulgaria.

Nordenskjöld Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing to the north, and Cape Fairweather to the south. To the south of this coast lies Oscar II Coast. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, who explored this coast in 1902 on his ship Antarctic.

Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69 degrees south.

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v t e Veliko Tarnovo Municipality
Capital: Veliko Tarnovo
Towns	Debelets Kilifarevo
Villages	Arbanasi Balvan Belchevtsi Belyakovets Bijovtsi Boychevi kolibi Boychovtsi Bochkovtsi Boyanovtsi Brankovtsi Bukovets Devetatsite Dechkovtsi Dimitrovtsi Dimovtsi Dichin Doynovtsi Dolen Enevets Dolni Damyanovtsi Dunavtsi Emen Gabrovtsi Gashtevtsi Golemanite Goranovtsi Goren Enevets Hotnitsa Ivanovtsi Ilevtsi Kapinovo Kisyovtsi Kladni dyal Klashka reka Kutsarovtsi Lagerite Ledenik Malki chiflik Malchovtsi Margovtsi Mindya Mishemorkov han Momin sbor Natsovtsi Nikyup Novo Selo Osenarite Piramidata Plakovo Pojernik Popovtsi Prisovo Prodanovtsi Pushevo Pchelishte Purovtsi Radkovtsi Raykovtsi Rashevtsi Resen Rusalya Ruskovtsi Samovodene Samsiite Seymenite Semkovtsi Shemshevo Sheremetya Shodekovtsi Suha reka Surnentsi Terziite Todorovtsi Tseperanite Tserova koria Tsonkovtsi Ushevtsi Velchevo Vetrintsi Vilare Vodoley Voneshta voda Voynezha Vuglevtsi Vurlinka Yalovo Yovchevtsi
History	Rebellion of Asen and Petar Siege of Tarnovo First and Second Tarnovo Uprising Tarnovo Constitution
Landmarks	Yantra River Emen canyon Trapezitsa Hill Hotnitsa fall Pass of the Republic
Culture	Arbanasi Monastery Church of SS. Peter and Paul Church of St Demetrius SS. Forty Martyrs Church Patriarchal Cathedral Tsarevets Veliko Tarnovo University Hotnitsa Grandmas Nicopolis ad Istrum
Notable people	Saint Evtimiy Gregory Tsamblak Petko Slaveykov Stefan Stambolov Vasil Zlatarski Krassimir Balakov Maria Ilieva Kotoōshū Grigor Nachovich Dimitar Grekov Emiliyan Stanev Ilarion Dragostinov Mitkaloto Theodosius of Tarnovo Filip Totyu