Ardino

Ardino, Bulgaria
Ардино

Distant view of Ardino

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Ardino, Bulgaria

Location of Ardino

Coordinates: 41°35′N 25°08′E / 41.583°N 25.133°ECoordinates: 41°35′N 25°08′E / 41.583°N 25.133°E

Country

Bulgaria

Province
(Oblast)

Kurdzhali

Government

• Mayor

Resmi Murad

Elevation

684 m (2,244 ft)

Population (15.12.2010)

• Total

4,185

Time zone

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Postal Code

6750

Area code(s)

03651

Main square in Ardino seen from the bridge.

Devil's bridge near Ardino.

Ardino, Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Ардино, formerly Turkish: Eğridere) is a town in Southern Bulgaria, in the Rhodope Mountains. It is located in Kardzhali Province and it is also close to the town of Smolyan.

It is famous for its textile industry. It has a machine-building factory and a tobacco manufacturing industry. Tourist attractions include the Belite Brezi, the Eagle rocks and the Dyavolski most (Devil's bridge). Under Ottoman rule, Ardino, then known in Turkish as Eğridere, was a kaza centre in the Sanjak of Gümülcine in the Adrianople Vilayet before the Balkan Wars.^[1] Ardino received its name in 1934^[2] and was declared as a town in 1960.^[3] Ardino is the birthplace of Sabahattin Ali, Turkish novelist, poet and journalist.

Villages

Notable natives

Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948), Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist

Cevat Hasanov- Balkan champion in Table Tennis

References

↑ http://alex.eled.duth.gr/Istoria/thrace_english/Thracee7_7.htm THRACE FROM THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN TILL THE BALKAN WARS (1878-1912)
↑ http://www.visittobulgaria.com/visit/dir.asp?d=0-8-Ardino Ardino
↑ http://ardino.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_28.html Ardino

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1,000,000+	Sofia (capital)

300,000+	Plovdiv Varna

200,000+	Burgas

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2,000+	Aheloy Apriltsi Ardino Batak Batanovtsi Belitsa Belovo Borovo Bratsigovo Bregovo Breznik Byala Chernomorets Dalgopol Debelets Dobrinishte Dolna Banya Dolna Mitropoliya Dolna Oryahovitsa Dolni Dabnik Dospat Dragoman Dunavtsi Dve Mogili Dzhebel Glodzhevo Godech Gulyantsi Gurkovo Hadzhidimovo Ignatievo* Iskar Ivaylovgrad Kableshkovo Kalofer Kameno Kaspichan Kilifarevo Klisura Kocherinovo Koprivshtitsa Kostandovo Koynare Kresna Kran Krivodol Kula Laki Letnitsa Loznitsa Maglizh Malko Tarnovo Marten Мizia Nedelino Nikolaevo Nikopol Obzor Opaka Pavel Banya Polski Trambesh Pordim Pravets Primorsko Rila Roman Rudozem Sadovo Sapareva Banya Sarnitsa Shabla Shivachevo Slavyanovo Slivo Pole Smyadovo Sozopol Strazhitsa Strelcha Sungurlare Suvorovo Sveti Vlas Tran Trastenik Tsar Kaloyan Ugarchin Valchedram Valchi Dol Varbitsa Vetovo Vetren Yablanitsa Zavet Zlataritsa

1,000+	Ahtopol Alfatar Antonovo Balgarovo Boboshevo Bolyarovo Boychinovtsi Brusartsi Byala Cherkva Chiprovtsi Dimovo Glavinitsa Gramada Kaolinovo Kermen Merichleri Momin Prohod Plachkovtsi Senovo Shipka Suhindol Zemen

500+	Kiten Madzharovo Pliska

499-	Melnik

Notes	city status after the census of 01.02.2011: Ignatievo, Kran

Municipalities of Kardzhali Province

Ardino Chernoochene Dzhebel Kardzhali Kirkovo Krumovgrad Momchilgrad

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