Atia, Bulgaria
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Atia (Bulgarian: Атия) is a village in Sozopol Municipality, Burgas Province, south-eastern Bulgaria. As of 2013 it has 825 inhabitants.[1] It hosts Bulgaria's largest naval base.
The village is located near Cape Atia, thus its name. It is situated at the northern foothills of Medni Rid Ridge, which is the north-eastern extreme of the Bosna Ridge in the Strandzha Mountains.[2]
Environmental problems
Until 2001
radioactive elements which give the sand a distinctive dark color. Decontamination operations began in 1997 after it was determined that the background radiation in the area is twice the normal limit.[3]
Citations
- ^ a b "Atia". Guide Bulgaria. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria 1980, p. 311
- ^ "ИАОС". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
References
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- Мичев (Michev), Николай (Nikolay); Михайлов (Mihaylov), Цветко (Tsvetko); Вапцаров (Vaptsarov), Иван (Ivan); Кираджиев (Kiradzhiev), Светлин (Svetlin) (1980). Географски речник на България [Geographic Dictionary of Bulgaria] (in Bulgarian). София (Sofia): Наука и култура (Nauka i kultura).
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