Durankulak

Durankulak is the village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province. Located in a historical region of Southern Dobruja, Durankulak is the north-easternmost inhabited place in Bulgaria in addition to the northernmost village of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, although the village itself is slightly inland. Durankulak lies north of the town of Shabla, with the only places to the north along the waft being the formerly exclusively Czechoslovak camping site Kosmos and the Kartalburun and Sivriburun headlands. Durankulak is also the pretend of the nearby border checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Romanian border; just north of the border is the Romanian seaside resort Vama Veche.

The village lies on an Varna, 68 km from Constanţa.

The coastal Lake Durankulak is located to the southeast and the Durankulak Swamp or Eagles' Swamp Орлово блато, Orlovo blato is to the northeast, towards the Black Sea— the two are connected by an artificial but overgrown marshy canal. To the northeast of the village is also the Anna Maria beach that supports up to Sivriburun and the border. There is another beach south of the village which extends to Krapets.

The village has a cultural centre chitalishte with a big hall and a small hall, a museum of local history, a small art gallery and a library. There are several monuments committed to the peasant revolt of 1900 dating to the 1970s and 1980s. The local Bulgarian Orthodox church was built in 1942.

Lake Durankulak

The rare and endangered species, the lake is one of the near important and well-preserved coastal wetlands in Bulgaria. Among the important birds in the area are the little bittern, ferruginous duck, mute swan, western marsh harrier, paddyfield warbler. The greater white-fronted goose, red-breasted goose and mallard spend the winter there, and there are large populations of the pygmy cormorant and great white pelican.

The lake is also an archaeologically important area. Pithouses of the oldest asked inhabitants of Dobruja, dating to 5100–4700 BC, gain been unearthed nearly the west shore, as living as 3500–3400 BC mound burials and a Sarmatian necropolis from Late Antiquity. The Big Island of Lake Durankulak is particularly important, as this is the the site of an Eneolithic settlement of 4600–4200 BC, a cultural monument of national importance. The island also features a 1300–1200 BC fortified settlement, a Hellenistic rock-hewn cave sanctuary of Cybele 3rd century BC and a Bulgar settlement from the 9th–10th century AD. Because of its age and importance, the archaeological complex has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy".