Brodilovo is a village

Village

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 in the Strandzha

Strandzha

Strandzha is a mountain massif in southeastern Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey, in the southeastern part of the Balkans between the plains of Thrace to the west, the lowlands near Burgas to the north and the Black Sea to the east. Its highest peak is Mahya Dağı in Turkey, while the...

 mountains of southeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, part of Tsarevo

Tsarevo

Tsarevo is a town and seaside resort in southeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous Municipality of Tsarevo in Burgas Province. It lies on a cove 70 km southeast of Burgas, on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast at the eastern foot of Strandzha mountain...

 municipality, Burgas Province

Burgas Province

-Municipalities:The Burgas province contains 13 municipalities . The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village , and the population of each as of 2009.-Demography:The Burgas province had a population of 423,608 -Municipalities:The Burgas...

. Lying on the left bank of the Veleka

Veleka

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, as of 2005 it has a population of 363 and the mayor is Dimitar Dimitrov. Brodilovo is located at 42°5′N 27°51′E, 56 metres above sea level, 12 km south of Tsarevo. The name of the village is derived from its location near a convenient river ford .

Older forms of the name are attested as Beradiu, Brodivo, Pordrikoz; it was first mentioned in 1498 with relation to salt

Salt

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 trade, and had Christian

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 34 households at the time. Until 12 July 1914 the village was inhabited by Greek

Greeks in Bulgaria

Greeks in Bulgaria constitute the eighth-largest ethnic minority in Bulgaria . They number 1,356 according to the 2011 census, but are estimated at around 25,000 by Greek organizations and around 28,500, including the Sarakatsani, officially by Greece...

 nestinari

Nestinarstvo

Nestinarstvo is a ritual originally performed in several Bulgarian- and Greek-speaking villages in the Strandzha Mountains close to the Black Sea coast in the very southeast of Bulgaria. It involves a barefooted dance on smouldering embers performed by nestinari...

, but following the Second Balkan War

Second Balkan War

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 these moved out to be replaced by Bulgarian refugees from Eastern Thrace. The village's Eastern Orthodox Church

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 of Saint Pantaleon

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 was built in 1910 and features an external narthex

Narthex

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; the iconostasis

Iconostasis

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 was manufactured and carved by a local carver called Giannis.

Until 2006, the ancient ritual of dog spinning was practised in Brodilovo. It was banned by the authorities after Bulgarian animal welfare

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organizations complained of its cruelty.