Malko Tarnovo

Malko Tarnovo is a town in Burgas Province in southeastern Bulgaria, five kilometres from the Turkish border. Its name means Little Tarnovo, as opposed to Veliko Tarnovo. It is the only town in the interior of the Bulgarian Strandzha Mountains and lies inside Strandzha Nature Park, and it is the administrative centre of the Malko Tarnovo Municipality. About 1,576 people lived there in December 2024. Before the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 it was a township of the Ottoman Kırklareli sanjak in Edirne vilayet, known as Tırnovacık, and it has been inside Bulgaria since 25 October 1913. Christianity is the dominant religion, with an Eastern Orthodox and an Eastern Rite Catholic church.