Kudelin

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Kudelin
Куделин
Village
Kudelin is located in Bulgaria
Kudelin
Kudelin
Location of Kudelin within Bulgaria
Coordinates: 44°11′30″N 22°40′05″E / 44.191667°N 22.668056°E / 44.191667; 22.668056
CountryBulgaria[1]
ProvinceVidin[1]
MunicipalityBregovo[1]
Area
 • Total7.556 km2 (2.917 sq mi)
Elevation199 m (653 ft)
Population
 • Total430[1]
Postcode
3798
Telephone code09312

Kudelin (Bulgarian: Куделин) is a village in the Bregovo Municipality of the Vidin Province of Bulgaria.

Geography

Kudelin lies mostly on a plain lying around 200 m (660 ft) above sea level,

River Danube
to the north to the border with Romania to the southeast.

Demography

In 1934, the population of Kudelin was 433. By 1975 it reached its maximum of 586, decreasing to 405 people by 2001, and 317 by 2018.[citation needed]

At the 2011 census, the population was 385, of which 96.1% were ethnically Bulgarian.[3][4]

Local people earn their living mainly from cereal farming.[1] The Danube and Timok rivers are used for recreation and fishing.

History

Historically, the village was called "Wallachian Rakovica" (Bulgarian: Влашка Раковица). In 1934 it was renamed[2] after Kudelin, a joint ruler of Braničevo at the end of the 13th century.

At the outbreak of First Balkan War in 1912, a local man enlisted in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps.[5]

The first lighthouse on Bulgaria's shore of the Danube was built in Kudelin.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Village of Kudelin". mirela.bg. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Information for Kudelin village, Bregovo municipality, Vidin district as of 14.08.1934". National Statistical Institute (Bulgaria). Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. ^ "НАСЕЛЕНИЕ ПО ОБЛАСТИ, ОБЩИНИ, НАСЕЛЕНИ МЕСТА И САМООПРЕДЕЛЕНИЕ ПО ЕТНИЧЕСКА ПРИНАДЛЕЖНОСТ КЪМ 1.02.2011 ГОДИНА" [Ethnic population distribution in Bulgarian localities] (in Bulgarian). National Statistical Institute (Bulgaria). 21 December 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  4. ^ "НАСЕЛЕНИЕ КЪМ 01.02.2011 Г. ПО ОБЛАСТИ, ОБЩИНИ, НАСЕЛЕНИ МЕСТА И ВЪЗРАСТ" [Age distribution in Bulgarian localities] (in Bulgarian). National Statistical Institute (Bulgaria). 21 December 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  5. . Retrieved 22 April 2021.