Chernoochene is a village in central southern 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...

, part of Kardzhali Province

Kardzhali Province

Kardzhali Province is a province of southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece with the Greek prefectures of Xanthi, Rhodope and Evros to the south and east. Kardzhali Province area is 3209.1 km². Its main city is Kardzhali.-History:...

. It is the administrative centre of Chernoochene municipality, which comprises in the northernmost part of Kardzhali Province. The village is located in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains

Rhodope Mountains

The Rhodopes are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, with over 83% of its area in southern Bulgaria and the remainder in Greece. Its highest peak, Golyam Perelik , is the seventh highest Bulgarian mountain...

 and has a predominantly Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 population. The village's name roughly means "place of the black-eyed

Eye color

Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic character and is determined by two distinct factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris....

 people" in both Bulgarian and Turkish.

Municipality

Chernoochene municipality covers an area of 339 square kilometres and includes the following 51 places:

Bakalite Barza Reka Bedrovo Bezvodno Beli Vir Besnurka Bozhurtsi Borovsko Borovsko Borovsko is a village in the Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 1991 census, the village is located in the municipality of Rogatica.-References:... Bosilitsa Bostantsi Cherna Niva Chernoochene Daskalovo Draganovo Dushka Dyadovsko Gabrovo Kableshkovo Kanyak Komuniga Kopitnik Kutsovo Lyaskovo Minzuhar Murga Nebeska

Nochevo Novi Pazar Novoselishte Panichkovo Patitsa Pchelarovo Petelovo Pryaporets Rusalina Sokolite Srednevo Sredska Sredska -Church of the Holy Virgin:At the hamlet of Pejcici, today north of the highway, there is the biggest but also the youngest church in the group of churches of the Sredska district, dedicated to the Holy Virgin... Strazhnitsa Svobodinovo Vazel Versko Vodach Voynovo Vozhdovo Yabalcheni Yavorovo Yonchovo Zheleznik Zhenda Zhitnitsa

External links

• Chernoochene municipality website