Cherven Bryag

Place in Pleven, Bulgaria

Cherven bryag Червен бряг
43°16′46″N 24°4′59″E / 43.27944°N 24.08306°E / 43.27944; 24.08306
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Pleven
Elevation	187 m (614 ft)
Population (31.12.2009)^[1]
• Total	13,856
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	5980
Area code	0659

Cherven Bryag (Bulgarian: Червен бряг, pronounced [t͡ʃɛrˈvɛn ˌbrʲak]) is a town in northern Bulgaria, a capital of the Cherven Bryag municipality, Pleven Province. It is situated on the right shore of the Zlatna Panega in river Iskar, 137 km north-east of Sofia, 53 km south-west of Pleven, 12 km north-west of Lukovit, 56 km east of Vratsa, and 55 km south of Oryahovo. The name means "red shore" and refers to the reddish clay in the vicinity of the river. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 13,856 inhabitants.^[1]

Cherven Bryag is a medieval settlement mentioned in 1431 in Ottoman registers as Dobrolak.^[2] Under its present name Cherven Bryag was first recorded in the 16th century as part of the Ottoman region of Nikopol. On 26 June 1929, Prime Minister Andrey Lyapchev proclaimed the former village and station a town.

Cherven Bryag is a railway station on the line Sofia-Gorna Oryahovitsa-Varna/Ruse. It first appeared as a railway station settlement in 1899 on the newly built Sofia-Varna railway line.^[3] Cherven Bryag was a starting point of a narrow-gauge railway line to Byala Slatina and Oryahovo, as well as of a normal railway line to Lukovit and Zlatna Panega. Today those lines are no more, out of service. The railway station is in the southwestern end of the town, opposite the central area.

Among the local landmarks, the St. Sophronius of Vratsa Church located in the central part of the town is notable.

Notable people

Margarita Lilowa (1935–2012), Austrian opera singer
Daniel Pavlov (born 1967), athlete
Tsvetomira Filipova (born 1969), rhythmic gymnast
Lyubomir Neikov (born 1972), actor and comedian

Gallery

The Central Square with the Cherven Bryag Municipality Building
The Post Office
Saint Sophronius of Vratsa Church in Cherven Bryag
The Cherven Bryag railway station
Taganrog Hotel in Cherven Bryag

References

^ ^a ^b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ Town of Cherven bryag
^ Cherven Bryag