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The north-east town of Balchik on the Black Sea coast, south of the Romanian border, commemorates on September 21 the 69th anniversary of its re-unification with Bulgaria, Focus news agency has reported.
The municipality will celebrate the town's liberation from Romania with an official ceremony scheduled to start at 11am at the September 21 Square.
The ceremony will be marked by the presence of municipal officials, the archbishop of Varna and Vekili Preslav, Kiril, a Bulgarian navy brass band, and counter admiral Plamen Manoushev.
Today, Balchik is a seaside resort in the Southern Dobruja area of northeastern Bulgaria, about 42km northeast of Varna. The town sprawls scenically along hilly terraces descending from the Dobruja plateau to the sea.
Balchik has since developed as centre of a rich agricultural region, wheat-exporting port, and district town, and later, as a major tourist destination with the beach front resort of Albena to its south.
During Romania's administration, the Balchik Palace was the favourite summer residence of Queen Marie of Romania and her family. The town is the site of Marie's Oriental villa, the place where her heart was kept, in accordance with her last wishes, until 1940, when the Treaty of Craiova awarded the region back to Bulgaria.
The municipality will celebrate the town's liberation from Romania with an official ceremony scheduled to start at 11am at the September 21 Square.
The ceremony will be marked by the presence of municipal officials, the archbishop of Varna and Vekili Preslav, Kiril, a Bulgarian navy brass band, and counter admiral Plamen Manoushev.
Today, Balchik is a seaside resort in the Southern Dobruja area of northeastern Bulgaria, about 42km northeast of Varna. The town sprawls scenically along hilly terraces descending from the Dobruja plateau to the sea.
Balchik has since developed as centre of a rich agricultural region, wheat-exporting port, and district town, and later, as a major tourist destination with the beach front resort of Albena to its south.
During Romania's administration, the Balchik Palace was the favourite summer residence of Queen Marie of Romania and her family. The town is the site of Marie's Oriental villa, the place where her heart was kept, in accordance with her last wishes, until 1940, when the Treaty of Craiova awarded the region back to Bulgaria.
