Smyadovo (, ; ISO transliterated ''Smjadovo'') is a town in eastern

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

, part of

Shumen Province Shumen Province (, transliterated ''Oblast Shumen'', former name Shumen okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria named after its main city Shumen. It is divided into ten municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 194,0 ...

. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous

Smyadovo Municipality Smyadovo Municipality () is a Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the vicinity of the northern slopes of the Eastern Stara planina mountain to the area of the so-called Fore ...

, which lies in the southeastern part of the province. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 4,036.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
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Alexandrina Miltcheva Alexandrina Miltcheva (born 27 November 1934, in Smyadovo) is a Bulgarian operatic mezzo-soprano. Career After making her debut at the State Opera of Varna as Dorabella in Mozart's ''Così fan tutte'', she won first prize at the Concours inte ...

was born in Smyadovo on 27 November 1934. Smyadovo lies in the southeastern Danubian Plain, at the northern foot of the eastern

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. It was first mentioned in early Ottoman times (

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mentions it as ''Smedovak'') and was proclaimed a town in 1969.

Smyadovo Cove Smyadovo Cove (, ) is a 900-meter wide cove indenting for 850 m the west coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Entered north of Ugain Point and south of th ...

in Rugged Island in the

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is named after Smyadovo.

Municipality

Smyadovo municipality covers an area of 354 square kilometres (of which 180 square kilometres arable) and includes the following 10 places: * Aleksandrovo * Byal Bryag *

Cherni Vrah Cherni Vrah ( , "Black Peak") is the summit of Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria. Rising to 2290 m, the peak is the fourth highest mountain summit in the country after Musala (2925 m, Rila Mountain), Vihren (2914 m, Pirin Mountain) ...

* Kalnovo *

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Rish Rish ( Riš) is a village in Smyadovo Municipality, Shumen Province, Bulgaria, with a population of 6931 as of 2024. Population According to the 2011 Census, the population of Rish consists mainly of Bulgarian Turks (72.6%), followed by a ...

* Smyadovo * Veselinovo *

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* Zhelad

References

External links

Web page about Smyadovo
Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Shumen Province {{Shumen-geo-stub