Kozloduy Public Holiday

The town of Kozloduy is located in the northwestern part of Bulgaria, on the shore of the Danube river. According to the first official sources, Kozloduy was first inhabited in XVI century. For hundreds of years, it was inhabited Thracians, Slavs and Bulgarians, who left rich cultural heritage. Traces of a Thracian settlement, which existed in the first millennium B.C. have been discovered in the sepulchral hills. Later on, the big Roman Danube coastal bridge passed through these places. Remains of the Roman castles Magura Piatra (or Reginaum), Kamistrum and Augusta have been found. The three historical trenches, later called Lomski, Ostrovski and Kozloduyski, are also in this region. In XVIII century, the settlement was known under the names Kotozluk and Kozludere (which means “low ravine"), and later on it was given the name Kozloduy (which means “an angle of ice"). On 17 May 1876, Hristo Botev and a group of other revolutionaries arrived in Kozloduy on the Radetzki ship. On 23 November 1877, the town was liberated from the Ottoman yoke. On 6 April 1970, the building of the first and still only nuclear power plant in Bulgaria (NPP Kozloduy) was launched.