Sadovo

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Sadovo Садово
Town
Sadovo Sadovo in Bulgaria
Coordinates: 42°07′59″N 24°55′59″E / 42.133°N 24.933°E / 42.133; 24.933
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Plovdiv
Municipality	Sadovo Municipality
Government
• Mayor	Dimitar Zdravkov (BSP)
Area
• Total	15.482 km2 (5.978 sq mi)
Elevation	156 m (512 ft)
Population  (2015)
• Total	2,392
Postal code	4122
Area code	03118
Vehicle registration	РВ

Sadovo (Bulgarian: Садово [ˈsadovo]) is a small town in Sadovo Municipality, Plovdiv Province, central Bulgaria, and the administrative center of Plovdiv. The population as of 2011^[update] was 2,600.

The city is close to the Maritsa River, 18 kilometers east of Plovdiv. Sadovo municipality area also includes the villages Ahmatovo, Bogdanitsa, Bolyartsi, Karadzhovo, Katunitsa, Kochevo, Milevo, Mominsko, Popovitsa, Seltsi and Cheshnegirovo. The area's population is 15 115 people (2015).

During 1916, the highest absolute temperature (45.2 degrees Celsius or 113.36 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded from the Sadovo weather station. This is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Bulgaria.^[1]

A large railway line runs through Sadovo towards Dimitrovgrad, and the Greek city Aleksandrupolis.

The oldest name of the city is accepted as "Kyuchuk Stambol" (Bulgarian: Кючук Стамбол) through local oral tradition. Until 1881, it was "Cheshnegir Mahala" (Bulgarian: Чешнегир махала).

Sadovo began between the years 1365-1390, when the city was founded by Turkish villagers in Thrace—during the time when Ottoman sultans, such as Murad I and Bayezid I, ruled Bulgaria. It was a Turkish and Muslim village in the beginning, populated only by Turkish Muslims. The earliest testament to its existence is in a Turkish register from 1472, where it is described under the name "Cheshnegir" in "Filibe" (Plovdiv), and where it is recorded that all of the villagers were Turkish Muslims.^[3]

The reference can be found in the personal archive of the historian Lyubomir Vasilev from Sadovo's neighboring village, Kochevo. The "Bulgarianization" and Christianization of Sadovo began during the 17th century, when in the short register from a tax for Plovdivsko from 1622, there is already evidence that in Sadovo, there were already 9 Christian households.^[4] However, up until the end of the 17th century, the village remains predominantly Muslim, even though a large increase in a Bulgarian Christian element can be seen from other documents. In another register from a tax for Plovdivsko from 1695 under the name Chashnagir, 33 families lived in the settlement, with 18 being Muslims and the other 15 Bulgarian Christians.^[5]

Most of the people are employed in agriculture, which due to the fertile soils and the high levels of mechanization is efficient and highly productive. Major crops are apples, tomatoes, peppers, wheat, barley and rice.

Sadovo has the highest recorded temperature (unofficial) in Bulgaria: 45.2 °C (113.4 °F).^[1] Officially, the highest record for Sadovo is 41.2 degrees Celsius (106.16 degrees Fahrenheit),^{[citation needed]} while the lowest is -30.7 degrees Celsius (-23.26 degrees Fahreheit).