Vinitsa () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in southern

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

, located in

Parvomay Municipality Parvomay Municipality () is a municipality in Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria, with administrative center Parvomay. General information Parvomay Municipality is situated in the most Eastern area of the Plovdiv field – part of the Upper Thracian Plai ...

Plovdiv Province Plovdiv Province (: ''Oblast Plovdiv'', former name okrug, Plovdiv okrug) is a provinces of Bulgaria, province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities (общини, ''obshtini'', sing. общинa, ''obshtina'') on a territ ...

. As of the 2020 June Bulgaria Census, the village has a population count of 1273.

Geography

Vinitsa is located 10 kilometers South West from

Parvomay Parvomay ( ) is a town located in the Plovdiv Province of southern Bulgaria, part of the similarly named municipality (Parvomay Municipality). It is geographically close to the towns of Sadovo and Chirpan. The name literally means First of May, i. ...

. The

Maritsa Maritsa or Maritza ( ), also known as Evros ( ) and Meriç ( ), is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast Europe. With a length of ,

river flows near the village. The geographical area, in which it is located - the

Upper Thracian Plain The Upper Thracian Plain (, ''Gornotrakiyska nizina'') constitutes the northern part of the historical region of Thrace. It is located in southern Bulgaria, between Sredna Gora mountains to the north and west, a secondary mountain chain parallel ...

, is fertile and enables the inhabitants to cultivate many crops. Near Vinitsa village, an endangered species of swamp

snowdrop ''Galanthus'' (from Ancient Greek , (, "milk") + (, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family (biology), family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leav ...

can be found. Along with Gradina village, this is one of the few places that the endangered plant can be found in

Southern Bulgaria Southern Bulgaria (, ''Yuzhna Balgariya'') is the southern half of the territory of Bulgaria, located to the south of the main ridge of the Balkan Mountains which conventionally separates the country into a northern and a southern part. Besides th ...

. In 1903, the village was renamed from Badarlii to Vinitsa.

Infrastructure

There is one school in Vinitsa, a primary school named " Vasil Aprilov", which allows students to graduate the 8th grade. Most children from the village continue their education in the nearby Municipality of

. There is a community hall with library in Vinitsa, named after

Georgi Sava Rakovski Georgi Stoykov Rakovski () (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival ...

. It was built during 1928.

References

{{Parvomay Municipality Villages in Plovdiv Province