[1] [2] News: Secret Tunnels Under the Bulgarian Ancient Capital Pliska Found District Shoumen >> Friday, 2008-07-11 19:25 Source: News.bg One more secret tunnel was found under the governors castles in medieval capital Pliska . The archaeologist Stanislav Stanilov and Rasho Rashev have examined an original underground system for 6 years now. The systematic investigations of the first Bulgarian capital have revealed an unknown to the Early Middle Ages system of communication, connected with the security of the khans. Every governor of the First Bulgarian Kingdom had built his own tunnels. Some of them are even wider, because through the... Business: Kamaz to Assemble Snow-ploughs in Varna City of Varna >> Saturday, 2008-06-14 12:42 Source: StandartNews Kamaz, Russia`s largest automobile corporation, considers possibilities to start assembling snowploughs and garbage trucks in Bulgaria. The Russian company thinks Varna and Shoumen regions (both in northeastern Bulgaria ) suitable for the purpose, reported Stefan Golev, chairman of the Association for Economic Cooperation with Russia, after signing an agreement with the Union of Industrialists and Developers in Saint Petersburg. The establishment of a Bulgarian-Russian consortium is considere... News: Emergency Hotline Starts Operating in Bulgaria Village of Ovcharovo >> Saturday, 2008-06-14 12:39 Source: StandartNews The 112 emergency hotline will be launched in Bulgaria at long last. As of July 3, the line will receive emergency calls from the citizens in 10 districts. At the same time two call centers will start functioning in the capital and in Russe, which will cover Greater Sofia, Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, Veliko Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Silistra and Razgrad. Till the end of the year the free line should be available for the rest of the towns in Bulgaria, Minister of State Policy for Disasters and Accidents informed yesterday. Meanwhile in the towns of Shumen and Sliven a temporary information center already operates. It receives calls about emergency situations and dispatches them to Civil Protection agency. To make a call people have to dial the respective area code and then 112. Culture: Archaelogical Conference to be Conducted in Shoumen City City of Shoumen >> Monday, 2008-05-26 19:25 Source: News.bg National archaeological conference will be conducted in Shoumen city starting up from today to May 29. 25 lectures will be hold throughout the forum, starting with ‘Archaeological researches in Shoumen area of the prehistoric era` in the Regional Historical Museum. During the forum days there will be organized scientific trips to ancient monuments in the region as Pliska (first capital of Bulgarian state VII Century), Madara Rider , Kabiyuk and Veliki Preslav (second Bulgarian capital). Statisti... Business: Shumen to get 20 km of gas mains by Mar `09 City of Shoumen >> Friday, 2008-05-09 17:05 Source: Dnevnik.bg The local Black Sea Technology Company (BSTC), 99.69%-owned by Italy`s AMGA Azienda Multiservizi S.p.A., said it plans to spend 2.279 mln levs through March 2009 on the rollout of over 20 km of gas mains in the city of Shumen. The company has already installed 43 km of gas mains in the Shumen municipality, pumping gas to 300 households, 28 industrial enterprises and 80 public and administrative buildings. BSTC said it will start the deployment of gas networks in Kaolinovo, Hitrino, Vetrino, Devnya and Suvorovo by Mar `09. Travel: List of Bulgarian Settlements in Mountain AreasRated Village of Ovcharovo >> Monday, 2008-04-07 15:58 Source: VisitToBulgaria.com National Agriculture and Rural Development Plan 2000-2006 - Settlements in Mountain Areas BLAGOEVGRAD
1. Bansko : Town of Bansko, Gostun, Dobrinishte, Kremena, Mesta, Obidim, Osenovo, Filipovo
2. Belitza : Town of Belitza , Babiak, Zlatarica, Gylybovo, Dagonovo, Kraishte, Kuzaovo, Liutovo, Orcevo, Palatnik, Gorno Kraishte, Chereshovo
3. Blagoevgrad : Izgrev, Belo pole, Bistrica, Town of Blagoevgrad, Buchino, Bylgarchevo, Gabrovo, Gorno Hyrsovo, Debochica, Delvino, Drenkovo, Dybrava, ... Society: Census 2001: Ethnic Groups in Bulgaria (self-awareness)Rated Village of Ovcharovo >> Monday, 2008-04-07 15:18 Source: News Guide Bulgaria The result for self-awareness of the Bulgarian population based on last made census from the National Statistics Institute in 2001
District
Total
Ethnic Groups by self-awareness
Do not know
Not answered
Bulgarian
Turk
Gypsy
Russian
Armenian
Wallach
Macedonian
Greek
Ukrainian
Jewish
Romanian
Other
Bulgaria
7 928 901
6 655 210
746 664
370 908
15 595
10 832
10 566
5 071
3 ... Culture: The Shumen Fortress to Become 2nd Tzarevetz Municipality Shoumen >> Monday, 2008-03-31 10:43 Source: News.bg The fortress at the Shumen plateau could be transformed into a second Tzarevetz, writes “Standard” daily newspaper. The mayor of Shumen Krassimir Kostov plans the fortress to be restored into its original size. The initial sum for the implementation of the project is around 416 000 EUR. The Shumen local government is ready to spend 63 000 EUR. The remaining part of the money could come from Europe under the program for preservation of the European cultural heritage. It is expected the south-east t... Politics: Shoumen region to spend 80M leva on road repair District Shoumen >> Monday, 2008-03-10 17:28 Source: SofiaEcho.com More than 80 million leva will be invested in road reconstruction in Shoumen area by end of 2009, regional governor Todor Todorov said on March 10 2008, as quoted by Bulgarian news agency BTA. The first tranche, 10.4 million leva, has already been transferred. It is earmarked for the rehabilitation of secondclass roads between the villages of Radko Dimitrievo , Hrabrovo , Hitrino , Struino , Vekilski , Nikola Kozlevo and Venets - Yassenkovo , he said. The necessary financing to repair two l... Travel: Bulgaria in 5 days: Shumen, South of Nowhere City of Shoumen >> Sunday, 2008-03-02 18:07 Source: Albena Shkodrova - Novinite.com Balkan Travellers Patriotic ruins, a Coca Cola-branded mosque, a "stud factory" and a capsule, containing a message for future generations: these are only part of modern Shumen`s surprising charms
If there were three places in Bulgaria where one would never consider spending a week of vacation, those would probably be Pernik , Karnobat and Shoumen . The last one, however, does not deserve its wretched reputation. Even though the architectural megalomania of the 1980s has ruined a large part o...[1] [2]