Cherven bryag ( bg, Червен бряг, also translated , ) is a town in northern

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

, a capital of the Cherven Bryag municipality,

Pleven Province Pleven Province ( bg, Област Плевен or Плевенска Област) is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It i ...

. It is situated on the right shore of the Zlatna Panega in river Iskar, 137 km north-east of

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...

, 53 km south-west of Pleven, 12 km north-west of Lukovit, 56 km east of

Vratsa Vratsa ( bg, Враца ) is the largest city in northwestern Bulgaria and the administrative and economic centre of the municipality of Vratsa and Vratsa district. It is located about 112 km north of Sofia, 40 km southeast of Montana. ...

, and 55 km south of Oryahovo. The name means "red shore" and refers to the reddish

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...

in the vicinity of the river. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 13,856 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009
Cherven Bryag is a medieval settlement mentioned in 1431 in Ottoman registers as Dobrolak. 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 Andrey Tasev Lyapchev (Tarpov) ( bg, Андрей Тасев Ляпчев (Tърпов)) (30 November 1866 – 6 November 1933) was a Bulgarian Prime Minister in three consecutive governments. Early years Lyapchev was born in the Macedonian c ...

proclaimed the former village and station a town. Cherven Bryag is a railway station on the line

Gorna Oryahovitsa Gorna Oryahovitsa ( bg, Горна Оряховица ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, situated in Veliko Tarnovo Province, from Veliko Tarnovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality. According to t ...

- Varna/ Ruse. It first appeared as a railway station settlement in 1899 on the newly built Sofia-Varna railway line.Cherven Bryag
/ref> 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 Daniel Pavlov ( bg, Даниел Павлов; born November 6, 1967 in Cherven Bryag) is an athlete from Bulgaria, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Pavlov finished his ranking round with a tot ...

(born 1967), athlete * Lyubomir Neikov (born 1972), actor and comedian

Gallery

File:Cherven Bryag Central Square.jpg, The Central Square with the Cherven Bryag Municipality Building File:Cherven Bryag Post office.JPG, The Post Office File:Cherven bryag church.JPG, Saint

Sophronius of Vratsa Saint Sophronius of Vratsa (or Sofroniy Vrachanski; bg, Софроний Врачански; 1739–1813), born Stoyko Vladislavov ( bg, Стойко Владиславов), was a Bulgarian cleric and one of the leading figures of the early Bu ...

Church in Cherven Bryag File:Cherven Bryag Train Station.JPG, The Cherven Bryag railway station File:Hotel Taganrog.JPG, Taganrog Hotel in Cherven Bryag

References

External links

Official website of Cherven Bryag municipality
{{Authority control Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Pleven Province