Tsenovo (, ; also transliterated ''Cenovo'' or ''Tzenovo'') is a village in northeastern

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

Ruse Province Ruse Province (), or Rusenska Oblast (, former name Ruse okrug) is a province in northern Bulgaria, named after its main city, Ruse, neighbouring Romania via the Danube. It is divided into eight municipalities with a total population, as of F ...

. It is the administrative centre of

Tsenovo Municipality Tsenovo Municipality () is a small Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain (Bulgaria), Danubian Plain where Yantra (river) ...

, which lies in the western part of Ruse Province. It is located along the lower course of the

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, in the central Danubian Plain, 32 kilometres from

Svishtov Svishtov ( ) List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous S ...

and 45 kilometres from the provincial capital of

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. The modern village was founded in the late 16th-early 17th century as the farm of the Gülhane Park administrator at the imperial palace of Topkapı in

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, named Kara Ali. The settlement gradually grew, as many people settled around the inn; the village was first named ''Çauşhan'' and ''Çauşköy''. Following the

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, the name was Bulgarianized by the addition of the -evo suffix, turning it into ''Chaushevo''. On 14 August 1934, it was renamed to ''Tsenovo'' in honour of the influential Svishtov merchant Dimitar Apostolov Tsenov who donated 40 million leva for the construction of the Svishtov University of Economics.

External links

Tsenovo municipality section at the Rousse Province website
Villages in Ruse Province {{RuseBG-geo-stub