Yakoruda ( bg, Якоруда ) is a
Bulgaria
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n town located in the southwestern part of the country. A part of the
Blagoevgrad Province, it is the seat of
Yakuroda Municipality which is the north-easternmost in the province. The town lies in the
Rhodope Mountains, along the
Mesta River
Nestos ( ), Mesta ( ), or formerly the Mesta Karasu in Turkish (Karasu meaning "black river"), is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. It rises in the Rila Mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea near the island of Thasos. It plunges down towering c ...
, 26 km west of the town of
Velingrad
Velingrad ( bg, Велинград ) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of Chepino Valley, part of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative center of the homonymous Velingrad Municipality a ...
. Yakoruda was proclaimed a town on 9 September 1964, having previously been officially classified as a village.
A plurality of the residents are Muslim Bulgarians (
Pomaks
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), the rest being for the most part
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
.
Notable natives are ''
Survivor BG'' season one runner-up
Ahmed Shuganov and Minister of Labour and Social Policy
Emiliya Maslarova.
Honour
Yakoruda Glacier on
Greenwich Island
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in the
South Shetland Islands
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,
Antarctica
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is named after Yakoruda.
Gallery
Yakoruda entrance.jpg, Entrance road to Yakoruda from Yundola
View of yakoruda.jpg, View of Yakoruda central parts
Yakoruda church.jpg, Yakoruda Orthodox
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Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
and town school
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Yakoruda Lukoil.jpg, Yakoruda Lukoil gas station at the exit road to Yundola
External links
Unofficial website
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Blagoevgrad Province
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