Venchan
Sign in to saveVenchan () is a village in the Provadiya Municipality, Varna Province, north-eastern Bulgaria. It is situated at 7 km to the north-west of Provadiya. As of 2007 the village has 364 inhabitants.
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- Venchan
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- Венчан
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- Village
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- +2
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- +3
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- Bulgaria
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- Location of Venchan
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- Mayor
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- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1
- Varna Province
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- 364
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- 2007-01-01
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- kmetstvo of Bulgaria
- Official name
- Venchan
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Located in
- Provadia
- Population
- 232
- Area
- 16.596
- Elevation
- 47
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Venchan.jpg
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- postal code
- 9219
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- Venchan
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- WikiProject Bulgaria
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Venchan () is a village in the Provadiya Municipality, Varna Province, north-eastern Bulgaria. It is situated at 7 km to the north-west of Provadiya. As of 2007 the village has 364 inhabitants.
Venchan is among the oldest settlements in the surrounding area. There are remains of a Thracian necropolis dated to the 7th-6th centuries BC. The ruins of an antique and medieval fortress. In 1388 the fortress was seized after a fierce resistance by a 30,000-strong Ottoman during a major campaign against the Bulgarian Empire and the settlement was occupied by the Ottomans. The construction of the railway between Ruse and Varna in 1866 which passed through the village and brought some economic prosperity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venchan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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