Marten is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in the northern part of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. It is located in Ruse Province

Ruse Province

Ruse Province is a province in northern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Ruse, neighbouring Romania via the Danube. It is divided into 8 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 249,144 inhabitants....

.

Geography

The town is located on the right bank of the Danube

Danube

The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....

. In the site called Yamata a meteorite crater, unique for Bulgaria, is located.http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=43.907366,26.101525&spn=0.001701,0.002323&t=k&om=1

History

The town was founded as a Roman Fortress called Tegra (Tegris, Tigris) in the First Century A.D., a part of the fortifications on the Danube border of the Empire.
It is supposed to have existed also during the Second Bulgarian Empire

Second Bulgarian Empire

The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state which existed between 1185 and 1396 . A successor of the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th-early 15th century...

. In early Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 documents it is named Maruteni.

Marten was proclaimed a town on August 7, 2006, by the House of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Marten Crag

Marten Crag

Marten Crag is the rocky peak rising to over 700 m between Stepup Col and the eastern foothills of Giovannini Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Antarctica is named after the town.