Dulovo, Bulgaria

Place in Silistra, Bulgaria

Dulovo Дулово
The center of Dulovo
43°49′N 27°9′E / 43.817°N 27.150°E / 43.817; 27.150
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Silistra
Government
• Mayor	Dr. Yüksel Ahmet
Elevation	237 m (778 ft)
Population (December 2009)^[1]
• Total	6,621
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	7650
Area code	0864
License plate	CC
Climate	Cfb
Website	http://www.dulovo.bg/

Dulovo (Bulgarian: Дулово [ˈduɫovo], Turkish: Akkadınlar, Romanian: Accadânlar) is a town in Silistra Province in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Ludogorie region. As the administrative centre of the homonymous Dulovo Municipality, it is the third largest town in the province after Silistra and Tutrakan. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 6,621 inhabitants.^[1]

Dulovo, then a village, was first mentioned in an Ottoman document of 1573 as "Akkadınlar", meaning "White Women". Even before the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, it had a mixed population of Bulgarians (settlers from the region of Preslav) and Turks, which is still reflected in the ethnic composition today. Following the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria was forced to cede it to Romania along with all of Southern Dobruja. It was also a district centre of Durostor County under Romanian rule. The village was given back to Bulgaria according to the Treaty of Craiova of 1940. In 1942, it acquired its present name (in honour of the early medieval Bulgarian Dulo clan, with the Bulgarian placename suffix –ovo). On 30 January 1960, Dulovo was granted town status.