Cherven Bryag
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| Cherven Bryag | |
  Cherven Bryag
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| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Provinces (Oblast) |
Pleven |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Rumen Penkov |
| Elevation | 187 m (614 ft) |
| Population (13.09.2005) | |
| - Total | 17,405 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal Code | 5980 |
| Area code(s) | 0659 |
Cherven Bryag (Червен бряг) is a town in northern Bulgaria, part of Pleven Province, on the right shore of the Zlatna Panega in river Iskar. It is 137 km north-east of Sofia, 53 km south-west of Pleven, 12 km north-west of Loukovit, 56 km east of Vratsa, and 55 km south of Oryahovo. It is an important railway cross-section. It first appeared as a railway station settlement in 1899 on the newly built Sofia-Varna railway line. It was proclaimed a town in 1929[1]. Cherven Bryag is a medieval settlement mentioned in 1431 in Ottoman registers as Dobrolak[2]. Under its present name, meaning "red shore" and referring to the reddish clay in the vicinity of the river, Cherven Bryag was first recorded in the 16h century as part of the Ottoman region of Nikopol. On 26 June 1929, Prime Minister Andrey Lyapchev proclaimed the former village and station a town. Nowadays one of the most famous citizens of Red Coast is T.Todorov also known as Tousche and the Goatspeaker, connected with his relatives in South America, he brought knowlegde of soccer betting into his neighbourhood.
Among the important landmarks, the St. Sofronii Vrachanski Cathedral located in the central part of the town is notable.
It is a large railway cross-section on the line Sofia - Gorna Oryahovitsa - Varna (Rousse). Cherven Bryag is a starting point of a narrow-gauge railway line from Cherven Bryag to Byala Slatina and Oryahovo, as well as of a normal railway line to Loukovit and Zlatna Panega. The railway station is in the southwestern end of the town, opposite the central area.
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