Targovishte is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Targovishte (:"marketplace", ) is a city in 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...

, capital of Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 and Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. As of February 2011, it has a population of 36,969 inhabitants.

Targovishte is known as an old market settlement.

City

First mentioned in 1573 in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 tax registers, it was already an administrative centre in 1658. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous market for animals and craft products called Eski Cuma ("old bazaar"). A monastical school was opened in the 18th century and a secular one, called the Slaveykov School and situated in the old Varosha Quarter was established in 1846, with Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

 being a teacher there; a chitalishte

Chitalishte

A chitalishte is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building which fulfils several functions at once, such as a community centre, library and a theatre. It is also used as an educational institution, where people of all ages can enroll in foreign language, dance, music and other courses....

was also built. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. Targovishte is home to one of the largest glass factories in Europe. The investment in the factory was $380,000,000 and employs 1,500 people.

The town is a cultural centre. In 2000, ruins of an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 town called Missionis (Мисионис) were unearthed near Targovishte. The town art gallery named after the eminent Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 arstist Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov

Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

, who was born here, has a considerable collection of his works.

It is a multiethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population (~70% according to census 2001) with sizeable Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

  and Roma minorities. There are two Bulgarian Orthodox churches: St. Uspenie Bogorodichno  (Dormition of the Theotokos Church) (1847) and St. John of Rila

St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte

St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....

 and one mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

. The local football team is called PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa

PFC Svetkavitsa Targovishte is a Bulgarian A PFG association football team based in Targovishte, having been promoted from the B PFG in 2011...

 ("lightning") and plays in the B PFG. The city is also noted for its shooting sports

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 traditions. There is also a drama theatre and a puppet theatre.

Population

According to census 2011, Targovishte has a population of 36,969 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1980-1990 when exceeded 45,000 with a highest rate in 1989 numbering 47,798. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.

Municipality

Targovishte is the administrative centre

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a term often used in several countries to refer to a county town, or other seat of regional or local government, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located....

 for the Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality

Targovishte Municipality is a municipality in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so called Fore-Balkan...

, one of five municipalities of the Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province

Targovishte Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a population of 129,675 inhabitants.-Municipalities:...

. In addition to Targovishte, which has the status of town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad), the municipality contains 51 other localities with the status of 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...

 (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo).

The following list shows the names of localities transliterated in Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, followed in parentheses by the name in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

• Aleksandrovo (Александрово)
• Alvanovo (Алваново)
• Bayachevo (Баячево)
• Bistra
  Bistra, Targovishte Province
  Bistra is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province.Bistra Glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the village....
  
   (Бистра)
• Bojurka (Божурка)
• Bratovo (Братово)
• Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi
  Buhovtsi Buhovtzi or Buhovci) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Targovishte Municipality of the Targovishte Province....
  
   (Буховци)
• Buynovo (Буйново)
• Cherkovna (Черковна)
• Dalgach (Дългач)
• Davidovo (Давидово)
• Draganovets (Драгановец)
• Dralfa (Дралфа)
• Golyamo Sokolovo (Голямо Соколово)
• Golyamo novo (Голямо Ново)
• Gorna Kabda (Горна Кабда)
• Koprets (Копрец)

• Koshnichari (Кошничари)
• Kralevo (Кралево)
• Krashno (Кръшно)
• Lilyak (Лиляк)
• Lovets (Ловец)
• Makariopolsko (Макариополско)
• Makovo (Маково)
• Miladinovtsi (Миладиновци)
• Mirovets (Мировец)
• Momino (Момино)
• Nadarevo (Надарево)
• Osen (Осен)
• Ostrets (Острец)
• Ovcharovo (Овчарово)
• Paydushko (Пайдушко)
• Pevets (Певец)
• Podgoritsa (Подгорица)

• Preselets (Преселец)
• Presian (Пресиян)
• Presyak (Пресяк)
• Probuda (Пробуда)
• Prolaz
  Prolaz
  Prolaz is a village in the municipality of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (Пролаз)
• Ralitsa (Ралица)
• Razboyna
  Razboyna, Targovishte Province
  Razboyna is a village located in the northeastern part of Bulgaria in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province.Razboyna is situated at the northern foot of the Preslav Mountain just by the ring road of Targovishte. The village lies in the vicinity of the Polyanitsa Reservoir...
  
   (Разбойна)
• Rosina (Росина)
• Ruets (Руец)
• Saedinenie (Съединение)
• Strazha (Стража)
• Tarnovtsa (Търновца)
• Tsvetnitsa (Цветница)
• Tvardintsi (Твърдинци)
• Vardun
  Vardun
  Vardun is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria.Until the eighties of the past century Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and only several gipsy’s . There were not any Turks living in Vardun as yet. Later on urbanization processes incited movements toward chief...
  
   (Вардун)
• Vasil Levski (Васил Левски)
• Zdravets (Здравец)

Gallery

Image:Targovishte 017.JPG|Church of the Dormition of the Holy Mother (1851)
Image:targovishte_hub.jpg|Targovishte centre
Image:Targovishte-imagesfrombulgaria.jpg|Street scene
Image:Targovishte 054.JPG|Street scene

Image:TargovishteTheatre.jpg|Targovishte Theatre with the Statue of Orpheus
Image:HristoBotevSchool.jpg|Comprehensive School Hristo Botev
Image:TheOldChurchTargovishte.jpg|The Old Church
Image:SlaveykovSchool.jpg|The Old Slaveykov School (Now Museum)
Image:VaroshaTargovishte1.jpg|The Old Quarter Varosha
Image:VaroshaTargovishte2.jpg|The Old Quarter Varosha
Image:TheOldChurchTargovishte2.jpg|The Old Church
Image:StJohnRilaChurch_Tshte1_.jpg|St. John of Rila church

Honour

Targovishte Glacier

Targovishte Glacier

Targovishte Glacier is situated in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, and is bounded by Viskyar Ridge to the west, Vratsa Peak to the northeast, and Drangov Peak and Ziezi Peak to the east...

 on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica is named after Targovishte.

Churches

• Sv. Uspenie Bogorodichno Church (Dormition of the Theotokos Church)
• St. John of Rila Church
  St. John of Rila Church, Targovishte
  St. John of Rila Church is an Eastern Orthodox church building in Targovishte. It is named after the Bulgarian Saint John of Rila who was the first Bulgarian hermit....
  
  

Schools

• Sveti Sedmochislenitsi High School
• Profesor Nikola Marinov High School
• Mitropolit Andrey High School
• Hristo Botev Comprehensive School
• P.R.Slaveykov Comprehensive School
• John Atanasov Vocational School
• Nikola Simov Vocational(Sport) School
• St. John of Rila School for children with hearing problems

Notable Natives and Residents

• Andrey, Metropolitan of New York
  Andrey, Metropolitan of New York
  Andrey, Metropolitan bishop of New York was the diocesan prelate of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia during the years 1947-1972....
  
  
• Nikola Marinov
  Nikola Marinov
  Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...
  
   (artist)
• Nikola Simov - Kuruto (revolutionary)

Twin cities

Cottbus

Cottbus

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, Germany

Germany

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 Târgovişte

Târgoviste

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, Romania

Romania

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 Smolensk

Smolensk

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, Russia

Russia

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 Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

Portugal

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 Waterloo, Iowa

Waterloo, Iowa

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, United States

United States

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 Kozani

Kozani

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, Greece

Greece

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 Suresnes

Suresnes

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, France

France

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External links

• Official website of Targovishte municipality
• Info portal of Targovishte municipality
• Targovishte the portal
• Another info portal of Targovishte
• Portal of Targovishte

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