Ivaylovgrad
Sign in to saveIvaylovgrad (, "city of Ivaylo", , Turkish :Ortaköy, "Middle Village") is a town in Haskovo Province in the south of Bulgaria set near the river Arda in the easternmost part of the Rhodope Mountains, and is the administrative centre of the homonymous Ivaylovgrad Municipality. The border with Evros, Greece is around two miles from the town centre.
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- Ivaylovgrad
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- Country
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- Bulgaria
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- Provinces(Oblast)
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- EET
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- +2
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- EEST
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- +3
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- Location of Ivaylovgrad
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- Bulgaria
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- Location of Ivaylovgrad
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- Mayor
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- Postal Code
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- Haskovo
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- 3,132
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- 2022-09-15
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- 104
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Ivaylovgrad (, "city of Ivaylo", , Turkish :Ortaköy, "Middle Village") is a town in Haskovo Province in the south of Bulgaria set near the river Arda in the easternmost part of the Rhodope Mountains, and is the administrative centre of the homonymous Ivaylovgrad Municipality. The border with Evros, Greece is around two miles from the town centre.
== History == Byzantine eparchial lists from the 9th-10th centuries mention a bishop's centre by the name of Lyutitsa on the site of present-day Ivaylovgrad. According to John VI Kantakouzenos (1347–1354), his infantry reached the fortress in 1342–1343. The settlement was destroyed by the Ottoman Turks during their invasion of the Balkans in the 14th-15th century.
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