Municipality Madan

The Madan Municipality is situated in the southeastern parts of the West Rhodope Mountains along the valleys of the rivers Madanska, Arda and Cherna. It borders the municipalities of Roudozem, Zlatograd, Nedelino, Ardino, Banite and Smolyan. It belongs to the Continental-Mediterranean climatic area, the South-Bulgarian climatic sub-area.
The territory of the Madan Municipality is 175 sq. km. The municipality consists of 44 settlements - 1 town (administrative center - town of Madan) and 43 villages, and the largest villages are Srednogortsi and Varbina. The settlements are grouped under the administration of 12 mayors and 10 deputy mayors. The settlement network is typical of mountain regions - dispersed settlements, most of which are larger or smaller villages, and one town functioning as economic, administrative and educational centre (Madan).

2009-03-30 Workers from Madan i Rudozem start working part-time (Business)

2009-03-07 Drunk young driver caused car incident in town of Madan (Accidents)

2009-02-16 12 snow clearing vehicles at the roads of Madan municipality (Weather)

2009-01-15 Miner died in accident in mine near town of Madan (Accidents)

2008-12-22 No Christmas Celebrations in town of Madan over Tragic Incident (Politics)

2008-12-21 4 teenagers perished after fell with car into Arda River near Srednogotsi village (Accidents)

2008-08-19 Turkish citizen injured in a car accident in the region of Varbina village (Accidents)

2008-03-18 Bulgaria Police Seizes Two Kilos of Explosive from Man`s Home (Accidents)

2007-09-25 Bulgarian co building solar energy park in Rhodope mountains (Business)

bulgaria.domino.bg (Madan)

www.obsmadan.org (Madan)