Kozloduy

Kozloduy ( ) is a town in northwest Bulgaria, located in Vratsa Province, on the Danube River. The city was liberated from Ottoman rule on 23 November 1877 by the Romanian Army under the command of the Imperial Russian Army. Kozloduy is best known for the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, Bulgaria's only (as of January 2018) nuclear power plant, which is located nearby, as well as the second largest Bulgarian Danubian island, Kozloduy Island. The city is also known for the ship Radetzky, the boat in which the poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev and with 200 others crossed the Danube River in a fin

Key facts

Settlement.native_name: Козлодуй
Settlement.native_name_lang: bul
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: "АЕЦ Козлодуй".jpeg
Settlement.image_shield: kozloduygerb.png
Settlement.image_map: Kozloduy location in Bulgaria.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Kozloduy in Bulgaria
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province(Oblast)
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Vratsa
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kozloduy Municipality
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Marinela Nikolova
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 105.307
Settlement.elevation_m: 33
Settlement.population_as_of: 2021

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History
Location
Economics and business
Notable people
Twin towns - sister cities
Population
Honors
References

==History== The earliest data show that Kozloduy was populated in the 16th century BC from the burial mounds where traces of a Thracian dwelling centre that existed in the first millennium BC remain.

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