Tran, Bulgaria

Tran Трън
Coat of arms
Tran Location of Tran, Bulgaria
Coordinates: 42°50′N 22°40′E
Country	Bulgaria
Provinces (Oblast)	Pernik
Government
• Mayor	Stanislav Nikolov
Elevation	329 m (1,079 ft)
Population (2006-07-12)
• Total	2,913
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code	2460
Area code(s)	07731

Tran (Bulgarian: Трън, meaning "thorn") is a small town in Pernik Province, western Bulgaria. It is 27 kilometres away from the town of Breznik and 15 km from the border with Serbia.

The town was first mentioned in 1451 as Tran; its name was also rendered as Turun, Tuin, Turan, Taran throughout the 15th–16th centuries. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was also called Isnebol, and belonged to the Sanjak of Niš.

One distinctive feature of the town is the dialect of the Bulgarian language spoken in Tran, which is part of the Torlakian dialect group, which is transitional to Serbian, making it hard for Bulgarians from e.g. Pernik to understand.^{[citation needed]} The Erma River which flows from the town has formed a magnificent george known as Transko Zhdrelo. Tran holds the Bulgarian lowest temperature record at −38.3°C (−36.94°F) registered in the winter of 1947.

Municipality

Tran is the seat of Tran municipality (part of Pernik Province), which includes the following 52 places:

Bankya Beraintsi Bogoyna Bohova Busintsi Butrointsi Dalga Luka Dokyovtsi Dolna Melna Dzhinchovtsi Elovitsa Erul Ezdimirtsi Filipovtsi Glavanovtsi Glogovitsa Gorna Melna Gorochevtsi Kashle Kozhintsi Kosturintsi Leshnikovtsi Leva Reka Lomnitsa Lyalintsi Milkyovtsi

Miloslavtsi Mraketintsi Mramor Nasalevtsi Nedelkovo Paramun Penkyovtsi Prodancha Radovo Rani Lug Reyanovtsi Shipkovitsa Slishovtsi Staychovtsi Strezimirovtsi Studen Izvor Tran Tsegrilovtsi Turokovtsi Velinovo Vidrar Vrabcha Vukan Yarlovtsi Zabel Zelenigrad

Honour

Tran Crag on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Tran.

See also

• Torlakian dialect