Klokotnitsa, Haskovo Province Explained

Official Name:Klokotnitsa
Native Name:Bulgarian: Клокотница
Pushpin Map:Bulgaria
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Klokotnitsa in Bulgaria
Coordinates:41.9833°N 55°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Province (Oblast)
Subdivision Name1:Haskovo
Leader Title:Mayor
Elevation M:146
Population Total:472
Population As Of:2011
Area Total Km2:16.678
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Postal Code Type:Postal Code
Postal Code:6310
Area Code:03727

Klokotnitsa is a village in southern Bulgaria in the Haskovo Municipality. It has a population of 619 people (as of June, 2005).

The village is famous for the great battle on 9 March 1230 between the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II and the Byzantine Greek ruler Theodore Komnenos Doukas. After the battle, Bulgaria became for a time the largest power in the Balkan peninsula, stretching between the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea.

To mark the victory, Tsar Ivan Asen II built the SS. Forty Martyrs Church in Veliko Tarnovo and put a stone column in it.

A small relief by the E-80 international road commemorates the battle.

This village once belonged to the Hasköylü Ağalık (Agaluk of Haskovo).

Honours

Klokotnitsa Ridge on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica is named after the village.