Dobrich is Bulgaria’s ninth most populous city, the administrative seat of Dobrich Province, and the capital of the Southern Dobrudzha region. It is situated in the country’s northeastern region, 30 kilometers west of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast and close to destinations such as Albena, Balchik, and Golden Sands. In January 2012, Dobrich had a population of 90,375 people. The city is named after the surrounding region’s Bulgarian medieval ruler, Dobrotitsa. Agriculture is the economy’s most developed sector.
In January 2012, Dobrich had a population of 90 375 residents inside the municipal boundaries and 112 203 residents when combined with the legally associated neighbouring communities. The city’s population peaked between 1986 and 1991, when it topped 110,000. The following table summarizes the population change since 1887.
Dobrich Knoll is located on Livingston Island in Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands. The Dobrich TV Tower is noteworthy.
The city is called after Dobrujan monarch Dobrotitsa in the 14th century, from the Slavic word dobr, „excellent.“
Throughout its history, the city has changed its name multiple times. When the town was formed in the 16th century during the Ottoman time, it was named Hacolu Pazarck in honor of the Turkish traveling trader who founded it and to differentiate it from the bigger town of Pazarck (today Pazardzhik).
On 19 February 1882, with the establishment of the independent Bulgarian state, the town’s residents chose to alter the town’s name to Dobrich. When Romania seized Southern Dobruja during the Second Balkan War in 1913, the city was renamed Bazargic, a Romanian variation of its old Turkish name.
On 25 September 1940, according to the Craiova Treaty, the city returned to Bulgarian administration, and the name „Dobrich“ was reinstated. The city was renamed Tolbukhin in 1949 during the Communist period in honor of Soviet Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin. Finally, with the demise of the Zhivkov administration, the city’s name was restored to „Dobrich“ on 19 September 1990 by presidential order.
Sights & Landmarks In Dobrich
The City Park St. George
The City Park St. George, or the city garden as it is affectionately called among Dobrich residents and visitors, is the most frequented location in the town. In the distant year of 1867, Bildieto (the City Municipal Council) chooses a location in the Karabokluka area for the development of the city’s first garden. The Gradinarovi family has made a significant contribution to the development of city-park art. It has an area of 430 dca and is split into numerous sectors, including „The Old Garden,“ a children’s sector with a play zone, a park lakes zone, a zone of rock terrace gardens, and a sports zone. In 1999, the city park’s old garden was designated a monument to culture and garden park art. The park is situated just next to Dobrich’s core pedestrian zone. The park is one of the country’s five oldest urban parks. It includes the historic garden, which has been designated a cultural historical site, as well as a children’s area, lakes, terraced rock gardens, and a sports area. Visitors may still view some of the plant species introduced from Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. Additionally, the park houses one of the town’s museums, complete with a dedicated space for temporary and visiting exhibits.
Nature and Animal Protection Centre
The center is unique not just in Bulgaria, but also across Eastern Europe. It was established as part of a Bulgarian-Swiss initiative and features a 16-hectare space, 50-year-old vegetation (trees and shrubs), and easy access. The zoo is home to about 40 animal species, including deer, roe, raccoon, alpaca, llamas, mouflons, goats, Przhevalski’s horses, brown bears, bison, pheasants, storks, pelicans, exotic and aquatic birds, and turtles. The reproduction and reintroduction of endangered animal species is a top goal for the zoo.
Dobrich TV Tower
The Dobrich TV Tower is home to radio, television, and telecommunications equipment. It is 146 metres tall and is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete. The tower, designed by Petar Andreev, was built in 1979 and has a tourist observation deck. Additionally, it is notable for its design.
Architectural – Ethnographic Complex “The Old Dobrich”
The ethnographic museum „The Old Dobrich,“ located in the current town’s city center on the site of the Odun Charshiya, preserves and depicts traditional Dobrudzha crafts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the rebuilt old city, charshiya artisans continue a centuries-old practice. Traditional pottery, blacksmith, embroidery, weaving, cooperage, homespun, and goldsmith goods are manufactured in over 30 workshops using ancient hand technologies and unique instruments. At the heart of the complex is a renovated 18th-century clock tower — a symbol of the town’s Bulgarian Renaissance spirit.
House Memorial “Yordan Yovkov”
In 1980, a house memorial was added to the home-museum, which houses the first permanent museum exhibition of its sort in Bulgaria, „Yordan Yovkov – life and creative journey,“ as well as the writer’s wealthiest fund. The cabinet of Yovkov and the magnificent mural „In the universe of Yovkov’s characters“ by Stoimen Stoilov are noteworthy. Dora Gabe is a poetic continuation of the exhibition „Yordan Yovkov – life and artistic journey,“ a memorable moment of eternity. Throughout the years, the home-museum with house memorial „Yordan Yovkov“ established itself as a focal point for Yovkov’s perspective, acknowledged not only by Bulgarians but also by the worldwide scientific community.
The Art Gallery of Dobrich
Dobrich’s Art Gallery is located in the city center. It is a one-of-a-kind cultural monument and one of Bulgaria’s top 100 national tourism attractions. It was constructed in the early twentieth century for judicial-administrative functions and occupies a prominent position in municipal life. It has hosted a variety of institutions throughout the years. In 1981, the structure is converted into a gallery. It houses a permanent exhibition of Bulgarian art masterpieces – paintings, sculptures, and graphics from the early twentieth century to the 1990s – works by the country’s most renowned painters such as Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora, Dechko Uzunov, Bencho Obreshkov, and many others, all of which are part of the country’s national golden fund, as well as graphics by the most renowned contemporary.
History of Dobrich
The earliest indications of habitation in what is now Dobrich date from the fourth or third centuries BC. It was a city in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior under the Latin name Abrittum, significant enough to become a suffragan bishopric of the capital, Marcianopolis, although the Catholic diocese died afterwards. Ruins dating from the second to fourth centuries AD and the seventh to eleventh centuries AD have also been discovered, including a Bulgar necropolis with pagan tombs in the city’s center.
Pecheneg incursions ravaged the interior of Dobruja in the 11th century, leaving many villages in the area deserted under the Second Bulgarian Empire.
The hamlet was formed a second time in the 16th century by the Turkish trader Hacolu Pazarck, which remained the community’s name until 1882. Between 1646 and 1650, Ottoman records indicate that the city included over 1,000 dwellings, over 100 stores, three inns, three Turkish baths, twelve mosques, and twelve schools. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the city grew as a center for handicrafts, commerce, and agriculture, becoming famed for its weaving, homespun tailoring, coppersmithing, leatherwork, and agricultural goods like as wheat, linseed, wool, and cheese. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city had a population of 12,000, the majority of whom were refugees from eastern Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish Wars. Additionally, the city’s cultural identity was developed. In 1843, the first Orthodox church was erected. On 27 January 1878, the city was freed from the Ottoman Empire and renamed Dobrich on 19 February 1882.
Following the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest (confirmed by the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly), Dobrich and the whole of Southern Dobruja were annexed by Romania until 1940. At the period, the city was known as Bazargic, a corruption of the previous Turkish name Hacolu Pazarck, and served as the capital of Caliacra County (judeţ in Romanian). The Bulgarian army marched into the city on 25 September 1940, after the signing of the Treaty of Craiova on September 7, 1940; the date was originally honored as the city’s festival, but was subsequently altered to September 25.
Dobrich was renamed Tolbukhin (Tолуин) in 1949, under the Communist regime. On 19 September 1990, a presidential order reinstated Dobrich as the city’s original name. Despite the name renewal, Dobrich retains an ex-communist aesthetic in the twenty-first century. The region’s automobile registration plate code has likewise been constant; it is TX (Tolbukhin).
Dobrich
Dobrich
Dobrich is Bulgaria’s ninth most populous city, the administrative seat of Dobrich Province, and the capital of the Southern Dobrudzha region. It is situated in the country’s northeastern region, 30 kilometers west of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast and close to destinations such as Albena, Balchik, and Golden Sands. In January 2012, Dobrich had a population of 90,375 people. The city is named after the surrounding region’s Bulgarian medieval ruler, Dobrotitsa. Agriculture is the economy’s most developed sector.
In January 2012, Dobrich had a population of 90 375 residents inside the municipal boundaries and 112 203 residents when combined with the legally associated neighbouring communities. The city’s population peaked between 1986 and 1991, when it topped 110,000. The following table summarizes the population change since 1887.
Dobrich Knoll is located on Livingston Island in Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands. The Dobrich TV Tower is noteworthy.
The city is called after Dobrujan monarch Dobrotitsa in the 14th century, from the Slavic word dobr, „excellent.“
Throughout its history, the city has changed its name multiple times. When the town was formed in the 16th century during the Ottoman time, it was named Hacolu Pazarck in honor of the Turkish traveling trader who founded it and to differentiate it from the bigger town of Pazarck (today Pazardzhik).
On 19 February 1882, with the establishment of the independent Bulgarian state, the town’s residents chose to alter the town’s name to Dobrich. When Romania seized Southern Dobruja during the Second Balkan War in 1913, the city was renamed Bazargic, a Romanian variation of its old Turkish name.
On 25 September 1940, according to the Craiova Treaty, the city returned to Bulgarian administration, and the name „Dobrich“ was reinstated. The city was renamed Tolbukhin in 1949 during the Communist period in honor of Soviet Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin. Finally, with the demise of the Zhivkov administration, the city’s name was restored to „Dobrich“ on 19 September 1990 by presidential order.
Sights & Landmarks In Dobrich
The City Park St. George
The City Park St. George, or the city garden as it is affectionately called among Dobrich residents and visitors, is the most frequented location in the town. In the distant year of 1867, Bildieto (the City Municipal Council) chooses a location in the Karabokluka area for the development of the city’s first garden. The Gradinarovi family has made a significant contribution to the development of city-park art. It has an area of 430 dca and is split into numerous sectors, including „The Old Garden,“ a children’s sector with a play zone, a park lakes zone, a zone of rock terrace gardens, and a sports zone. In 1999, the city park’s old garden was designated a monument to culture and garden park art. The park is situated just next to Dobrich’s core pedestrian zone. The park is one of the country’s five oldest urban parks. It includes the historic garden, which has been designated a cultural historical site, as well as a children’s area, lakes, terraced rock gardens, and a sports area. Visitors may still view some of the plant species introduced from Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. Additionally, the park houses one of the town’s museums, complete with a dedicated space for temporary and visiting exhibits.
Nature and Animal Protection Centre
The center is unique not just in Bulgaria, but also across Eastern Europe. It was established as part of a Bulgarian-Swiss initiative and features a 16-hectare space, 50-year-old vegetation (trees and shrubs), and easy access. The zoo is home to about 40 animal species, including deer, roe, raccoon, alpaca, llamas, mouflons, goats, Przhevalski’s horses, brown bears, bison, pheasants, storks, pelicans, exotic and aquatic birds, and turtles. The reproduction and reintroduction of endangered animal species is a top goal for the zoo.
Dobrich TV Tower
The Dobrich TV Tower is home to radio, television, and telecommunications equipment. It is 146 metres tall and is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete. The tower, designed by Petar Andreev, was built in 1979 and has a tourist observation deck. Additionally, it is notable for its design.
Architectural – Ethnographic Complex “The Old Dobrich”
The ethnographic museum „The Old Dobrich,“ located in the current town’s city center on the site of the Odun Charshiya, preserves and depicts traditional Dobrudzha crafts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the rebuilt old city, charshiya artisans continue a centuries-old practice. Traditional pottery, blacksmith, embroidery, weaving, cooperage, homespun, and goldsmith goods are manufactured in over 30 workshops using ancient hand technologies and unique instruments. At the heart of the complex is a renovated 18th-century clock tower — a symbol of the town’s Bulgarian Renaissance spirit.
House Memorial “Yordan Yovkov”
In 1980, a house memorial was added to the home-museum, which houses the first permanent museum exhibition of its sort in Bulgaria, „Yordan Yovkov – life and creative journey,“ as well as the writer’s wealthiest fund. The cabinet of Yovkov and the magnificent mural „In the universe of Yovkov’s characters“ by Stoimen Stoilov are noteworthy. Dora Gabe is a poetic continuation of the exhibition „Yordan Yovkov – life and artistic journey,“ a memorable moment of eternity. Throughout the years, the home-museum with house memorial „Yordan Yovkov“ established itself as a focal point for Yovkov’s perspective, acknowledged not only by Bulgarians but also by the worldwide scientific community.
The Art Gallery of Dobrich
Dobrich’s Art Gallery is located in the city center. It is a one-of-a-kind cultural monument and one of Bulgaria’s top 100 national tourism attractions. It was constructed in the early twentieth century for judicial-administrative functions and occupies a prominent position in municipal life. It has hosted a variety of institutions throughout the years. In 1981, the structure is converted into a gallery. It houses a permanent exhibition of Bulgarian art masterpieces – paintings, sculptures, and graphics from the early twentieth century to the 1990s – works by the country’s most renowned painters such as Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora, Dechko Uzunov, Bencho Obreshkov, and many others, all of which are part of the country’s national golden fund, as well as graphics by the most renowned contemporary.
History of Dobrich
The earliest indications of habitation in what is now Dobrich date from the fourth or third centuries BC. It was a city in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior under the Latin name Abrittum, significant enough to become a suffragan bishopric of the capital, Marcianopolis, although the Catholic diocese died afterwards. Ruins dating from the second to fourth centuries AD and the seventh to eleventh centuries AD have also been discovered, including a Bulgar necropolis with pagan tombs in the city’s center.
Pecheneg incursions ravaged the interior of Dobruja in the 11th century, leaving many villages in the area deserted under the Second Bulgarian Empire.
The hamlet was formed a second time in the 16th century by the Turkish trader Hacolu Pazarck, which remained the community’s name until 1882. Between 1646 and 1650, Ottoman records indicate that the city included over 1,000 dwellings, over 100 stores, three inns, three Turkish baths, twelve mosques, and twelve schools. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the city grew as a center for handicrafts, commerce, and agriculture, becoming famed for its weaving, homespun tailoring, coppersmithing, leatherwork, and agricultural goods like as wheat, linseed, wool, and cheese. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city had a population of 12,000, the majority of whom were refugees from eastern Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish Wars. Additionally, the city’s cultural identity was developed. In 1843, the first Orthodox church was erected. On 27 January 1878, the city was freed from the Ottoman Empire and renamed Dobrich on 19 February 1882.
Following the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest (confirmed by the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly), Dobrich and the whole of Southern Dobruja were annexed by Romania until 1940. At the period, the city was known as Bazargic, a corruption of the previous Turkish name Hacolu Pazarck, and served as the capital of Caliacra County (judeţ in Romanian). The Bulgarian army marched into the city on 25 September 1940, after the signing of the Treaty of Craiova on September 7, 1940; the date was originally honored as the city’s festival, but was subsequently altered to September 25.
Dobrich was renamed Tolbukhin (Tолуин) in 1949, under the Communist regime. On 19 September 1990, a presidential order reinstated Dobrich as the city’s original name. Despite the name renewal, Dobrich retains an ex-communist aesthetic in the twenty-first century. The region’s automobile registration plate code has likewise been constant; it is TX (Tolbukhin).
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