Samovodene Самоводене
Village
Samovodene
Coordinates: 43°09′25″N 25°18′00″E / 43.15694°N 25.30000°E / 43.15694; 25.30000
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Veliko Tarnovo
Community	Veliko Tarnovo
Government
• Mayor	Stefan Maglov
Area
• Total	42,107 km2 (16,258 sq mi)
Elevation	181 m (594 ft)
Population
• Total	1 400
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Post code	5040
Area code	06112

Samovodene (Bulgarian: Самоводене [samoˈvɔdɛnɛ]) is a village in Veliko Tarnovo Municipality, north-central Bulgaria.

Geography

The village is located about 10 km north of Veliko Tarnovo. Near the village is the source of the river Rakovets.

Population

History

In the land of Samovodene revealed early Neolithic settlement (6000 BC on.. It is.). Remarkably open house with an area of 120 m². Studied is unique religious complex, consisting of a religious building, religious and cult pit shaft with a radius of 1.80 m and a depth of 12.80 meters incurred in connection with the ritual practices of the cult of the sun and the Great Mother Goddess. Another phenomenal finding a plastic image of a young girl on the wall of pottery aged 8400 years, modeled so skillfully that the outside environment undistorted by later construction activities layer could be assigned to the classical period of ancient times. This proves the existence of a division of labor and specialization in craft skills at an early Neolithic.

In the village there were two primary schools "Father Paysii" and "Tsar Simeon". In Samovodene was founded Credit cooperative "Strength", which was later renamed the consumer. Cooperative "Vasil Mavrikov" was created in 1945. Community center in the village Samovodene was founded in 1873.

Transport

Railway station is on the line Gorna Oryahovitsa - Veliko Tarnovo - Stara Zagora.

There is a regular bus line №10 of Gorna Oryahovitsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Parvomaytsi.

Buildings

Hristo Smirnenski`s school in Samovodene

Regular events

• The feast of the village is on 5 May. Then celebrate the Christian holiday "Saint Irene" is called and the church in the village.
• Every year on St. George ignite two large fire: one - one half of the village on the hill rocker and the other - the hill Mryamora by making a race which fire will be higher. For this purpose from the beginning of the year to collect tires and materials for bonfires. And most characteristic is that since he started the tradition, the fire on the hill rocker is always great!

Sport

FC Sparta Samovodene

In the village Samovodene of about 65 years has soccer. The terraces of the stadium are about 300-400 spectators. The base is available to all Samovodene citizens.^[3]

The team of the village is called "Sparta" (FC Samovodene).

Notable people

Other

• On 23/11/2009, BNT reported homeless old man grandfather Mitko helpless left without relatives willing to help him.
• On 07/12/2015, the Nova TV reported Lilly from Samovodene who died just days before turning 15 years.^[4]
• On 29/11/2016, the newspaper "Today" reported from the theater Samovodene who won the award in Serbia.^[5]
• On 07/12/2016, the Eurocom Tsarevets reported resident of the village of Samovodene which became a hit on social networks because of videos that they upload to the Internet.^[6]
• On 17.11.2016, the newspaper "Destant" reported Camellia Kandeva from Samovodene which is 16 years old and already has behind her numerous awards for modern ballet.^[7]

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