Kamen Bryag

Place in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria

Kamen Bryag Камен Бряг
Saints Constantine and Helena Christian Orthodox Chapel in Kamen Bryag
43°27′18″N 028°33′02″E / 43.45500°N 28.55056°E / 43.45500; 28.55056
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Dobrich Province
Municipality	Kavarna
Government
• Mayor	Tsonko Tsonev
• Deputy Mayor	Dobrinka Yalnazova
Elevation	38 m (125 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	69
Time zone	UTC+2 (ЕЕТ)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (ЕЕSТ)
Post code	9661
Phone code	+359 5744

Kamen Bryag is a village in northeastern Bulgaria.

It is located in Kavarna Municipality, Dobrich Province, on the Black Sea coast. The population was 76 in 2009.

Yailata National Archaeological Reserve is located two kilometers south of the village.

History

Old names

Kamennik - Medieval, not sufficiently confirmed.

Kaya Bey Kyo - by the Ottoman authorities - literally translated "The Village of the Stone Master". The name of the village originates from the lone rock in front of the Little Egg on the seashore in front of the village, symbolizing its location, as well as in general the rocky coast about kilometers high, not less than 30 meters high. In the area is also the Yaylata locality, which is a huge stone formation.

Stânca - during the Roman rule of 1919–1940.

Only Bulgarians live in Kamen Bryag, some of whom are descendants of immigrants from the Balkans (Kotlensko and Elensko), and another part - descendants of immigrants from Romania - who came in the early 1940s as a result of the Craiova Agreement. Like most villages in the area, the elderly population before the migration of Balkanis belongs to the Gagauz ethnographic group.^[1]

Population

The population of the village consists entirely of ethnic Bulgarians, descendants of settlers from the Balkan Mountains (Kotel and Elena regions) and Southern Romania. A compact group of ethnic Bulgarians, who previously inhabited Northern Dobruja, settled in Kamen Bryag as a result of the Treaty of Craiova. As of the 2000s, the village is a popular summer holiday destination.

Cultural and natural sights

2 km south of the village is the archeological site "Yailata" with numerous tombs, stone dwellings and an early Byzantine fortress wall. To the northwest of the village is a large necropolis of Scythian tombs. At the entrance of Yailata, a Thracian altar of the sun is discovered and cleared. There are a number of megalithic monuments along the high coasts north and south of the village.

On July 25, 2007, an information center was opened in the village providing information about the Yaylata archeological reserve and other tourist sites in the region.

About 1.5 km from Yailata is the Lamb, a gas field from the late 1950s that has been burning to this day.