Yambol

Yambol

Understand The Bezisten (Bedesten) in 2007 One of the smaller branches of the Tundzha The Old Mosque The theatre and chitalishte (community centre) The common building of two Catholic temples - the Eastern rite Sts. Cyrill and Methodius Church and the assimilated Latin rite Sacred Heart of Jesus Church Some of the ruins at Kabile Map of Yambol With a population of more than 60,000 (2021), it's the administrative centre of Yambol Province (oblast). The province stretches from Sliven Province in the Balkan Mountains to the north to the border with Turkey to the south; to the east is the province of Burgas on the Black Sea, to the west are the provinces of Stara Zagora and Haskovo. The only other settlement with a population over 10,000 in the province is the town of Elhovo, 35 km (22 mi) to the south of Yambol, on the same river Tundzha (TOON-jah). In World War I, after Bulgaria joined on the side of the Central Powers, an airship base with a huge hangar was built by the…

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