Kranevo

Kranevo is a village in northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in Balchik municipality, Dobrich region. The old name of the village was Ekrene (until 1934).

Cape Kranevo on Tower Island in Antarctica is named in honor of the village.

In 1934, the village was named Ekrene, which comes from the medieval Bulgarian fortress Kranea. And Ekrene is actually the Turkish pronunciation of Kranea. On the road between Kranevo and Golden Sands is the Ekrene lighthouse, which for years was the highest on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Due to the incessant landslide activity in the area, the operation of the lighthouse has been suspended. Not far from it are the remains of the defensive rampart, which played an important role in the defense of the First Bulgarian State, called the Asparukhov rampart. On the huge hill near today's Kranevo, Ekrensko Kale was once located.[3]

In this place, during the Romanian occupation of Southern Dobrudja (1913 – 1940), the border with the Kingdom of Romania passed.[5]