Official Name: | Atia |
Native Name: | Атия |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Bulgaria |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Label Position: | Location in Bulgaria |
Subdivision Name: | Bulgaria |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Burgas Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Sozopol |
Population As Of: | 2013 |
Population Total: | 825 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Elevation M: | 14 |
Postal Code: | 8150 |
Coordinates: | 42.4389°N 27.5847°W |
Atia (Bulgarian: Атия) is a village in Sozopol Municipality, Burgas Province, south-eastern Bulgaria. As of 2013 it has 825 inhabitants.[1] It hosts Bulgaria's largest naval base.
The village is located near Cape Atia, thus its name. It is situated at the northern foothills of Medni Rid Ridge, which is the north-eastern extreme of the Bosna Ridge in the Strandzha Mountains.
Until 2001 copper mines functioned in the vicinity of the village. Between 1954 and 1977 all the by-products and waste from the mining operations were dumped in the shallow waters near the Black Sea coast. As a result the village's beach was contaminated with mercury and radioactive elements which give the sand a distinctive dark color. Decontamination operations began in 1997 after it was determined that the background radiation in the area is twice the normal limit.[2]