Dulovo ( bg, Дулово , tr, Akkadınlar, ro, Accadânlar) is a town in Silistra Province in northeastern

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, in the

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region. As the administrative centre of the homonymous Dulovo Municipality, it is the third largest town in the province after Silistra and

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. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 6,621 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009
Dulovo, then a village, was first mentioned in an Ottoman document of 1573 as "Akkadınlar", meaning "White Women". Even before the

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in 1878, it had a mixed population of

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(settlers from the region of

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) and

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, which is still reflected in the ethnic composition today. Following the

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, Bulgaria was forced to cede it to

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along with all of Southern Dobruja. It was also a district centre of

Durostor County Durostor County was a county ('' județ'') of the Kingdom of Romania, in Southern Dobruja, with the seat at Silistra. The county was located in the south-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the southern Dobrogea region, known as Cadrilater. Cur ...

under Romanian rule. The village was given back to Bulgaria according to the

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of 1940. In 1942, it acquired its present name (in honour of the early medieval Bulgarian

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, with the Bulgarian placename suffix –ovo). On 30 January 1960, Dulovo was granted town status.

Municipality

Dulovo is the administrative centre of Dulovo municipality (part of Silistra Province), which includes the following 27 localities:

References

External links

Dulovo municipality website
Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Silistra Province {{Silistra-geo-stub