Kamen Bryag is a
village
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in northeastern
Bulgaria
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.
It is located in
Kavarna Municipality
Kavarna Municipality () is a Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is named after its admin ...
,
Dobrich Province
Dobrich Province (, , former name Dobrich okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is bounded on the east by the Black Sea, on the south by Varna Province, on the west by Shumen and Silist ...
, on the
Black Sea
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coast. The population was 76 in 2009.
Yailata National Archaeological Reserve is located two kilometers south of the village.
History
Old names
Kamennik - Medieval, not sufficiently confirmed.
Kaya Bey Kyo - by the Ottoman authorities - literally translated "The Village of the Stone Master". The name of the village originates from the lone rock in front of the Little Egg on the seashore in front of the village, symbolizing its location, as well as in general the rocky coast about kilometers high, not less than 30 meters high. In the area is also the Yaylata locality, which is a huge stone formation.
Stânca - during the Romanian rule of 1919–1940.
Only Bulgarians live in Kamen Bryag, some of whom are descendants of immigrants from the Balkans (Kotlensko and Elensko), and another part - descendants of immigrants from Romania - who came in the early 1940s as a result of the Craiova Agreement. Like most villages in the area, the elderly population before the migration of Balkanis belongs to the Gagauz ethnographic group.
Population
The population of the village consists entirely of ethnic
Bulgarians
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, descendants of settlers from the
Balkan Mountains
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(
Kotel and
Elena regions) and Southern
Romania
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. A compact group of ethnic Bulgarians, who previously inhabited
Northern Dobruja
Northern Dobruja ( or simply ; , ''Severna Dobrudzha'') is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube, Danube River and the Black Sea, bordered in the south by Southern Dobruja, which is a part of Bulgaria.
...
, settled in Kamen Bryag as a result of the
Treaty of Craiova
The Treaty of Craiova (; ) was signed on 7 September 1940 and ratified on 13 September 1940 by the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania. Under its terms, Romania had to allow Bulgaria to retake Southern Dobruja, which Romania had gained ...
.
As of the 2000s, the village is a popular summer holiday destination.
Cultural and natural sights
2 km south of the village is the archeological site "Yailata" with numerous tombs, stone dwellings and an early Byzantine fortress wall. To the northwest of the village is a large necropolis of Scythian tombs. At the entrance of Yailata, a Thracian altar of the sun is discovered and cleared. There are a number of megalithic monuments along the high coasts north and south of the village.
On July 25, 2007, an information center was opened in the village providing information about the Yaylata archeological reserve and other tourist sites in the region.
About 1.5 km from Yailata is the Lamb, a gas field from the late 1950s that has been burning to this day.
Image gallery
File:July Morning 07.jpg, July Morning 2007 at Kamen Bryag with ex- Uriah Heep's John Lawton
References
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More information about Kamen Bryag
Villages in Dobrich Province
Populated coastal places in Bulgaria
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