Dolni Chiflik ( bg, Долни чифлик , , tr, Aşağı Çiftlik) is a town in northeastern

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, part of

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, located near the Kamchiya River about 14 km away from the Black Sea coast. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous

Dolni Chiflik Municipality Dolni Chiflik Municipality ( bg, Община Долни чифлик) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Chiflik. The municipality spreads f ...

. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 6,706 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009

History

The village of Dolni Chiflik was founded by an Ottoman noble after the

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defeat in the

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in 1444. In the village's early years, the main occupation of the locals was stockbreeding. In 1795, the village was burned to the ground by the

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, and was uninhabited until the following year, when Mihail Yanev and his family settled, with more Bulgarians coming in 1830. Dolni Chiflik first became a municipality centre in 1919. It was proclaimed a town on 4 September 1974 and renamed ''Kamchiya'' (after the river). In early 1975, upon the death of the politician

Georgi Traykov Georgi Traykov Girovski, also known as Georgi Traykov ( bg, Георги Трайков Гировски, 14 April 1898, Varbeni, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (today Itea, Greece) – 14 January 1975, Sofia, Bulgaria), was a Bulgarian poli ...

, it was named in his honour. After 10 November 1989,

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Zhelyu Zhelev Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev ( bg, Желю Митев Желев; 3 March 1935 – 30 January 2015) was a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who served as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria from 1990 to 1997. Zhelev was one of the mos ...

reinstated the old name ''Dolni Chiflik''.

References

Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Varna Province {{Varna-geo-stub