Slivo Pole ( bg, Сливо поле, ) is a town in northeastern
Bulgaria
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, part of
Rousse Province
Ruse Province ( bg, Област Русе, translit=Oblast Ruse), or Rusenska Oblast ( bg, Русенска област, former name Ruse okrug) is a province in northern Bulgaria, named after its main city, Ruse, neighbouring Romania via the ...
. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous
Slivo Pole Municipality
Slivo Pole Municipality ( bg, Община Сливо поле) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Ruse Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative ce ...
, which lies in the northeastern part of the Province. The town is located five kilometres from the
Danube
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, along the main road from
Rousse
Ruse (also transliterated as Rousse, Russe; bg, Русе ) is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria. Ruse is in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, approximately south of ...
to
Silistra
Silistra ( bg, Силистра ; tr, Silistre; ro, Silistra) is a town in Northeastern Bulgaria. The town lies on the southern bank of the lower Danube river, and is also the part of the Romanian border where it stops following the Danube. Sil ...
. As of December 2009, it has a population of 3,169 inhabitants.
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Slivo Pole was proclaimed a town on 29 November 2002. Tatars
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different had settled in the area following the Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
(1853–1856), as well as Bulgarians from Rousse and from Romania
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after 1863. The village was known as ''Islepol'' and ''Slepovo'' and was officially named ''Slivo Pole'' ("plum field") in 1912, as it was called so by the travellers who would stay in the local inn which had a big plum orchard.
Municipality
Slivo Pole municipality covers an area of 276 square kilometres and includes the following 11 places:
* Babovo
* Borisovo
* Brashlen
* Chereshovo
* Golyamo Vranovo
* Kosharna
* Malko Vranovo
* Ryahovo
* Slivo Pole
* Stambolovo
* Yudelnik
The municipality has a relative Bulgarian
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
majority at 44%, with Turks
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* Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
* Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
* Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic o ...
ranking second at 32% and the remainder being composed of Romani
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* 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 ...
(18%) and Bulgarian Muslims
The Bulgarian Muslims or Muslim Bulgarians ( bg, Българи-мохамедани, ''Bǎlgari-mohamedani'', as of recently also Българи-мюсюлмани, ''Bǎlgari-mjusjulmani'', locally called ''Pomak'', ''ahryan'', ''poganets'', '' ...
(6%).
A notable sight in the area (partially in Slivo Pole municipality, mostly in Tutrakan
Tutrakan ( bg, Тутракан , ro, Тurtucaia, tr, Turtukaya) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous municipality, part of Silistra Province. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite t ...
municipality, Silistra Province
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) is the Kalimok-Brashlen protected area
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which includes several Danubian islands (Mishka, Malak Brashlen, Golyam Brashlen, Pyasachnik, Bezimenen, Kalimok, Radetski and Tutrakan) and is an internationally important bird area with many endangered species
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.
Mayors of Slivo pole municipality
*Stancho H. Dimitrov (1912–1920)
*Georgi Yorgov (1920–1924)
*Mihail Ivanov (1924–1931)
*Iliya Todorov (1931–1932)
*Marin Nikolov (1932–1934)
*Angel Kolarov (1934–1935)
*Aleksandar Kolarov (1935–1937)
*Gencho Ostrev (1937–1944)
*Kyril Denev (1944–1946)
*Todor Kolev (1946)
*Manol Dochev (1946–1948)
*Nikolay Kolev (1948–1952)
*Georgi Kissimov (1952–1959)
*Stoyu Spasov (1959–1965)
*Drumi Atanasov (1965–1969)
*Todorka Pencheva (1969–1979)
*Stefan Pasev (1979–1991)
*Simeon Krastev (1991–1995)
*Georgi Golemanski (1995–1999)
*Ivan Ivanov (1999–2000)
*Georgi Golemanski (2000-2015)
*Valentin Atanasov (2015-
References
External links
Slivo Pole municipality website
Slivo Pole page at the Rousse Province website
{{Rousse Province
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Ruse Province