Tran, Bulgaria
Tran (
Bulgarian: Трън ,
Serbian: Трн/Trn, meaning
"thorn" in both languages) 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.
One dinstinctive feature of the town is that a unique dialect of the
Bulgarian language is spoken in Tran. This dialect differs so greatly from ordinary Bulgarian that someone from a nearby town such as Pernik could not understand it easily.
The
Erma River which flows from the town has formed a magnificient george known as
Zhdreloto. Tran holds the Bulgarian lowest temperature record at -38.3 C°(-36.94 F°) registered in the winter of
1947.
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Torlakian dialect
