| Pastrogor | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
| Country |  |
| Province | Haskovo Province |
| Municipality | Svilengrad |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Pastrogor (or Patrogor) is a village in the municipality of Svilengrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria. [1]
Svilengrad is a town in Haskovo Province, south-central Bulgaria, situated at the border of Turkey and Greece. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svilengrad Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 18,132 inhabitants.
Haskovo Province is a province in southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece and Turkey to the southeast, comprising parts of the Thracian valley along the river Maritsa. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Haskovo. The province embraces a territory of 5,533.3 km² that is divided into 11 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 256,408 inhabitants.
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.
Pastrogor Peak in Antarctica is named after the village.
Pastrogor Peak is the partly ice-free peak rising to 1480 m near the north end of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is named after the settlement of Pastrogor in Southern Bulgaria.
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,200,000 square kilometres, it is the fifth-largest continent. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages 1.9 km in thickness, which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula.
