Loznitsa ( bg, Лозница, ; also transliterated ''Loznica'' or ''Loznitza''; tr, Kubadın) is a small town in northeastern
Bulgaria, part of
Razgrad Province
Razgrad Province ( bg, Област Разград (''Oblast Razgrad''), former name Razgrad okrug) is a province in Northeastern Bulgaria, geographically part of the Ludogorie region. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre ...
, located in the geographic region of
Ludogorie. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous
Loznitsa Municipality
Loznitsa Municipality ( bg, Община Лозница) is a Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain (Bulgaria), Danubian Plain. It is named after its admin ...
, which lies in the southernmost part of the Province. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,409 inhabitants.
[Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009]
In Antiquity,
Thracians Romans and
Byzantines inhabited the area; there are also traces of a Bulgarian settlement dating to the 7th-11th century, the time of the
First Bulgarian Empire
The First Bulgarian Empire ( cu, блъгарьско цѣсарьствиѥ, blagarysko tsesarystviye; bg, Първо българско царство) was a medieval Bulgar- Slavic and later Bulgarian state that existed in Southeastern Europ ...
. The old
Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...
name of Loznitsa was ''Kubadın'' and it was first mentioned in a register in 1573. Around the time of the
Liberation of Bulgaria, present Loznitsa was a village of 66 households according to
Russian data. In the early 20th century, Bulgarians from the
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border betw ...
settled in the village. A school was built in 1908, and the local community centre (''
chitalishte'') ''Probuda'' was founded in 1912.
In 1934, the old Turkish name was changed to the Bulgarian ''Loznitsa'', honouring the region's viticultural traditions ("loza" means "
vine" in Bulgarian). On 4 September 1974, the village was proclaimed a town. Loznitsa has a mixed population of
Bulgarians,
Turks, and
Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
. The town is twinned with the
Küçükçekmece suburb of
Istanbul,
Turkey.
Municipality
Loznitsa municipality includes the following 16 places:
References
External links
Loznitsa municipality website
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Razgrad Province
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