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  (yäm'bōl') pronunciation

A city of southeast Bulgaria east of Stara Zagora. Population: 81,000.

 

 
 
or Jambol (both: yäm'bôl) , city (1993 pop. 91,119), SE Bulgaria. It is a commercial center and produces textiles, machinery, ceramics, and furniture. There are mineral springs nearby. The city was known in Roman times. Yambol was a residence of Turkish beys from the 15th to 18th cent. There are an 18th-century church and several Turkish mosques.


 
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Yambol
Ямбол
Map of Bulgaria, Yambol is indicated
Province
(oblast)
Yambol
Population 85,966 (2006-01-10)
Altitude 114 m
Postal code 8600
Area code 046
License plate
province code
Y
Geographic
coordinates
42° 29' north,
26° 30' east
Time zone EET
(UTC[[UTC+2|+2]]; [[UTC+3]] in summer)
Mayor Kiril Todorov (independent)

Yambol (Bulgarian: Ямбол) is a city in southeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Yambol Province. It lies on both banks of the Tundzha in the historical region of Thrace. Today, the town has 85,966 inhabitants as of 2006.

Although the surrounding area has been inhabited since the Neolithic and was the location of the Thracian royal city of Cabyle (later conquered by Philip II of Macedon and the Romans, but destroyed by the Avars in 583), what is today Yambol was founded by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293 as Diospolis ('city of Zeus'). The name later evolved through Diampolis and Diamboli to become Yambol.

As the Slavs and Bulgars arrived in the Balkans in the Middle Ages, the fortress was contested by the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantines until 1373, when it fell to the Ottomans after a prolonged siege.

Yambol (Ottoman Turkish Yanbolu) was an important centre of the Ottoman Empire until liberated by Russian forces in January 1878 to become part of Eastern Rumelia and later Bulgaria after the Unification in 1886.

The predominant religion is Eastern Orthodoxy with a number of churches being present (among them one of the Holy Trinity, one of St George and one of St Nicholas), but there also exist Eastern Rite Catholic and Protestant religious buildings, as well as a 15th-century mosque.


Yambol Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Yambol.

Panoramic view of the city visible from Borovets
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Panoramic view of the city visible from Borovets

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