Razgrad

Razgrad

Understand Ruins of Abritus Ibrahim Pasha Mosque The clock tower The mausoleum-ossuary Map of Razgrad With a population of about 28,000 (2021), Razgrad is the administrative centre of Razgrad Oblast (Province) and one of the smallest provincial centres in Bulgaria. It's located on the south-western border of a loosely-defined geographical and historical region called the Ludogorie in Bulgarian and Deliorman in Turkish (LOO-do-go-ri-eh, de-LI-or-man). Both names means the same - the Mad Woods, a nickname that the area earned in the Middle Ages, when a band of dense woods arched along the southern borders of Dobruja, from the Danube almost to the Black Sea. In its modern geographical definition, the name is limited to an extensive but low limestone plateau that melds into the Dobrudzhan Plateau to the north-east and the sea-side Frangen Plateau to the east. A small river, the Beli Lom ("White Lom") flows through the city of Razgrad itself, before merging to the north with the Cherni Lom ("Black Lom") to form the Rusenski Lom ("Lom of Ruse", not to be confused…

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