Polkovnik Savovo
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Polkovnik Savovo is a small village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 located in North-East Bulgaria
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. It is part of the Tervel
Tervel (town)
Tervel is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Dobrich Province. It is the administrative centre of Tervel Municipality, which lies in the westernmost part of the province...

 Municipality, in the Dobrich Province
Dobrich Province
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.

Overview

It borders Tervel hunting grounds. It has won several awards for its famous "Bvlgary" brand tractors, which despite only having 600cc side-valve are highly successful and the engines have been used for taxis.

The hunting grounds, known as the Station, have a total of 14,801 ha of forests and are situated in the middle part of the Dobrudzha and Varna plateaus, about 500 km from Sofia Airport
Sofia Airport
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 and 100 km from Varna Airport
Varna Airport
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. The relief is flat to hilly, with deep dry gullies. The forests are mainly of oak and Black locust. The lowest point is in the "Suha reka" country - 80 m and the highest point is in the "Kjostata" - country - 250 m.

The main species of big game species are red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wild boar and mouflon. Hare, pheasant and partridge represent the small game species. The most widely spread predators are jackal, fox, wildcat and beech marten. At the wold exhibition EXPO, which was held in 1981 in Plovdiv, the Game Breeding Station "Tervel" presented 163 trophies, 17 of which won gold medals.

Polkovnik Savovo is the home to a recently discovered Thracian
Thracians
The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting areas including Thrace in Southeastern Europe. They spoke the Thracian language – a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family...

 tomb, and is reputed to be the area where Khan Tervel resided, who reigned for 21 years from 695 to 715 A.D.

Property prices have increased threefold due to the tourism.
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