Bregare Explained

Official Name:Bregare
Established Title:First settled
Postal Code Type:Postal Code
Timezone1 Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone1:EET
Population As Of:2020
Population Total:612
Elevation M:41
Area Land Km2:29.907
Leader Name:Tsvetan Velchovski
Leader Title:Mayor
Established Date:1868
Subdivision Name2:Dolna Mitropoliya
Native Name:Брегаре
Subdivision Name1:Pleven
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
(Obshtina)
Subdivision Type1:Province
(Oblast)
Subdivision Name:Bulgaria
Subdivision Type:Country
Coordinates:43.5953°N 24.3308°W
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Bregare
Pushpin Map:Bulgaria
Image Caption:School in Bregare
Settlement Type:Village
Postal Code:5862

Bregare (Bulgarian: Брегаре in Bulgarian pronounced as /brɛˈɡarɛ/,) is a village in central northern Bulgaria, part of Dolna Mitropoliya municipality, Pleven Province. Bregare lies on the left bank of the Iskar River, 15km (09miles) from its mouth in the Danube, at an elevation of around 40m (130feet).

Geography

The village of Bregare is located on the left bank of the Iskar River, about 15 km from the confluence with the Danube River. The altitude is 39 m. The land is divided into two parts: hilly, called "Pole" and flat - "Ormanja". To the northwest of the village many sloping slopes rise 40–70 m above it, and to the southeast, above the right bank of the Iskar River, the slopes are steeper and rise higher - up to 80–90 m above the village. The village is built in a relative plain, descending with a slope of 1/400 from southwest to northeast. The climate is temperate continental.

History

The village was settled by Balkan Mountains colonists from Vratsa Province after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. Prior to that, following the Crimean War and more specifically the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), the Ottoman government settled Crimean Tatars and Circassians in the area. They lived in dugouts and adobe houses, but were forced out of the country in 1878. After the Liberation, around 100 families of settlers from Kunino colonized the area; other Bulgarian colonists soon arrived. The colonists included 83 Banat Bulgarian families from Austria-Hungary who arrived in 1894.[1]

The Orthodox church of Archangel Michael was built in 1912–1915 and inaugurated in 1920; according to accounts of elderly people, the architect was from Macedonia. The village also has a small Roman Catholic ("Banatian") church of the Holy Mother of God serving the Banat Bulgarian community. The Father Paisius school's current building was opened in 1934.

Honour

Bregare Point in Antarctica is named after the village.[2]

Notable people

Notes and References

  1. Book: Нягулов, Благовест . Банатските българи. Историята на една малцинствена общност във времето на националните държави . Bulgarian . 1999 . София . Парадигма . 978-954-9536-13-3 . 92 .
  2. https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=138103 Bregare Point.
  3. Web site: Интервю . www.bgsever.info . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120315102959/http://www.bgsever.info/interwu/2010/35-georgi-mihajlov.htm . 2012-03-15.