Batak massacre
Batak massacre refers to the massacre of Bulgarians in Batak by Ottoman irregular troops in 1876 at the beginning of the April Uprising. The number of victims ranges from 1,200 to 7,000, depending on the source.
Latitude and longitude of Batak
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Batak is a town in Bulgaria.
Population: 3,917
Latitude: 41° 57' 0.00" N
Longitude: 24° 13' 0.01" E
Articles of interest in Batak
24 Articles of interest near Batak, Bulgaria
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Velingrad (Bulgarian: Велинград) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of Chepino Valley, part of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative center of the homonymous Velingrad Municipality and one of th…
Pazardzhik Province
Pazardzhik Province (Bulgarian: Област Пазарджик Oblast Pazardzhik, former name Pazardzhik okrug) is a province in Southern Bulgaria, named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Pazardzhik. The territory is 4,456.9 km that is …
Perushtitsa
Perushtitsa (Bulgarian: Перущица) or Perushtitza is a Bulgarian town located in Perushtitsa Municipality, Plovdiv Province at the foot of the Rhodopes, 22 kilometers south of Plovdiv.
Rakitovo
Rakitovo (Bulgarian: Ракитово) is a town in the Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria. As of 2005 the population is 8 952. It is located in the northern part of the Rhodopi mountains at 12 km to the east of Velingrad and 7 km to the southwest of the Batak D…
Kostandovo
Kostandovo (Bulgarian: Костандово) is a small town in the Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria. In 2010, it had 4342 inhabitants.
Tsepina
Tsepina (Bulgarian: Цепина) was a castle and town in the western Rhodope mountains, southern Bulgaria, now in ruins. It is located at 6 km from the Dorkovo village in the north-eastern part of the Chepinska valley.
13th MMC – Pazardzhik
13th Multi-member Constituency – Pazardzhik is a constituency whose borders are the same as Pazardzhik Province in Bulgaria.
Vacha Reservoir
Vacha Reservoir (Bulgarian: Въча язовир; before 1999: Antonivanovtsi Reservoir) is a body of water associated with a dam in Devin Municipality, south Bulgaria. It is part of the Vacha Cascade Joint Implementation Project involving three more dams an…
Snezhanka (cave)
Snezhanka (Bulgarian: Снежанка, "Snow White") is a show cave in the Rhodope Mountains, some 5 km away from the town of Peshtera, southern Bulgaria. It was discovered in 1961. To reach it requires a half an hour uphill. Some of the most beautiful cav…
Shiroka Polyana
Shiroka Polyana (Bulgarian: Широка поляна) is a reservoir lake situated in the Western Rhodopes mountains in Bulgaria.
Rodopi Municipality
Rodopi municipality (Bulgarian: Община Родопи) is situated in the Plovdiv Province, southern Bulgaria.
Red Church (Bulgaria)
The Red Church (Bulgarian: Червена църква, Chervena tsarkva, pronounced [tʃɛrˈvɛnɐ ˈtsərkvɐ]) is a large partially preserved late Roman (early Byzantine) Christian basilica in south central Bulgaria. Dating to the late 5th–early 6th century, the chu…
Church of St Demetrius, Patalenitsa
The Church of St Demetrius (Bulgarian: църква „Свети Димитър“, tsarkva „Sveti Dimitar“) is a medieval Eastern Orthodox church in southwestern Bulgaria. It lies in the village of Patalenitsa, administratively part of Pazardzhik Municipality within Pa…
Batak Reservoir
The Batak Reservoir (Bulgarian: язовир Батак) is located in the Rhodope Mountains and is the third largest in Bulgaria. It attracts many tourists and fishermen, and the resort Tsigov Chark was built on its shore.
Vacha (river)
The Vacha (Bulgarian: Въча Bulgarian pronunciation: [ˈvətʃa]) is a river in south Bulgaria, one of the main right tributaries of the Maritsa. It is 105 km long and is formed by the confluence of the Shirokolashka reka and the Byunovska reka.
…Tsigov Chark
Tsigov Chark (Bulgarian: Цигов чарк) is a ski resort in the western Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. It is located at 900–1000 metres above sea level, and is located 8 kilometres from the town of Batak and 24 kilometres east of Velingrad.
Sinitovo
Sinitovo (Bulgarian: Синитово) is a village in Pazardzhik Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, western Bulgaria. As of 2005 the population is 2 160. It is located at an altitude of 200 m in a fertile agricultural region near the Maritsa river.