Zimnitsa is the largest village of Straldzha

Straldzha

Straldzha is a small town in Yambol Province, Southeastern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Straldzha Municipality. As of december 2009, the town has a population of 6,021 inhabitants.-External links:*http://www.straldja.net...

 Municipality in southeastern 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...

. Zimnitsa is an important railway junction.

History

The first settlers came to the current location of the village in 1812 from a village called Karasarli which was to the north of nowadays Zimnitsa. They worked on the sheepfold of a local ottoman lord (pasha), so the settlement was named "Kishlakoy" (turk.kishla-sheepfold; koy-village). The church was built in 1856 and saved the polulation during bandit attacks. In 1906 the village was renamed Zimnitsa.

Economy

Agriculture remains the main occupation of the local people. Many of them, however, work in the closest towns - Straldzha and Yambol

Yambol

Yambol is a city in southeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of Yambol Province. It lies on both banks of the Tundzha river in the historical region of Thrace. As of February 2011, the town has a population of 72,843 inhabitants. It is occasionally spelt 'Jambol'.The administrative centres...

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External links

http://yambol.government.bg/pics/straldzhaen.htm

http://wikimapia.org/3437986/Zimnitsa-Airfield