Varvara, Burgas Province

Varvara (Bulgarian: Варвара) is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, located in the Tsarevo Municipality of the Burgas Province. This seaside resort is situated on the Black Sea coast within Strandzha Nature Park, between the towns of Tsarevo and Ahtopol, near the border with Turkey. It lies at 42°7′N 27°55′E / 42.117°N 27.917°E / 42.117; 27.917Coordinates: 42°7′N 27°55′E / 42.117°N 27.917°E / 42.117; 27.917 and the mayor is Irina Petkova. As of 2005, the population is 250.

In the middle of the 19th century, the site of the modern village was uninhabited, except for the small monastery or chapel of Saint Barbara with holy springs, after which the village was named. An older settlement may well have existed, as indicated by the marking of the name Vardarah on Max Šimek's 1748 and Christian Ludwig's 1788 map in that area. Until the Balkan Wars, Varvara was a small Ottoman village of ethnic Turkish refugees from northern Bulgaria who settled there following the Liberation of Bulgaria in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. After 1913, the Turks moved out and were replaced by Bulgarian refugees from Eastern Thrace

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