Rocky shore at Tyulenovo Bulgaria

Tyulenovo is a village and seaside resort on the north Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, part of Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province. Tyulenovo means Village of seals in Bulgarian, but seals haven't been seen in the area since the 1980s. The story of their appearance is almost as blurry as their vanishing. It is rumored that Queen Marie of Romania who had a summer palace in the nearby town of Balchik released a pair of seals she had raised for several years. It's name during Ottoman rule and Romanian rule was Kalaç-Köy - with the meaning of village of the sword and Calacichioi, respectively. The settlement was founded in the Ancient period, probably by the ancient Thracians and in the next periods was part of the Roman, Bulgarian and Ottoman empires, Tyulenovo, Bulgaria on June 06, 2020