Byala Cherkva is a town in Pavlikeni Municipality

Pavlikeni Municipality

Pavlikeni Municipality is a municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain...

 part of Veliko Turnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. The settlement is located close to the town of Pavlikeni

Pavlikeni

Pavlikeni is a town in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Northern Bulgaria, about 41 kilometers away from the city of Veliko Tarnovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Pavlikeni Municipality...

 about 28 km away from the city of Veliko Tarnovo. Its name in Bulgarian means white church, a popular placename around to world, equivalent to Bela Crkva

Bela Crkva

Bela Crkva translates to "White Church" in the south Slavic languages in the Ekavian accent regions. As a settlement name, it can refer to:* Bela Crkva, Vojvodina, a town in Vojvodina, Serbia...

, Weisskirchen

Weisskirchen

Weisskirchen can refer to:France* German name of Blanche-ÉgliseGermany* Weißkirchen , a city part of Oberursel, nearby there is the main transmitter of AFN in Germany, the Transmitter Weißkirchen...

, Whitechurch

Whitechurch

Whitechurch on the southside of Dublin, situated south of Ballyboden in Rathfarnham at the foot of the Dublin mountains. Derives its name from a small white church in Kilmashogue, build in the proximity of an ancient Cairn...

, etc.
As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,612 inhabitants.

Notable native include the revolutionary Bacho Kiro

Bacho Kiro

Bacho Kiro was the nickname of Kiro Petrov Zanev , a Bulgarian teacher, man of letters and revolutionary who took an active part in the April Uprising....

 (1835–1876) the poet and minister of culture Tsanko Tserkovski, and politician Rayko Daskalov

Rayko Daskalov

Rayko Ivanov Daskalov was a Bulgarian interwar politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union . One of the chief leaders of the republican Vladaya Uprising organised by deserted Bulgarian Army troops in 1918 against the government, from 1919 to 1923 Daskalov was a prominent member of the...

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