The Tsibritsa (, ; also transliterated as Cibrica, Tzibritza; ) is a river in the western Danubian Plain of northern Bulgaria and a right tributary of the Danube. Its length is 88 km.
Geography
The river originates under the name Selska bara north of the summit of Kostin Vrah (871 m) in the Shiroka Planina division of the Fore-Balkan, a mountainous chain straddling north of and in parallel with the
Balkan Mountains. At the village of
Klisuritsa it receives its tributary the Klisuritsa, enters the Danubian Plain and turns east. At
Dalgodeltsi the river bends northeast for the rest of its course and flows in a wide asymmetrical valley with steeper rights banks. The Tsibritsa flows into the Danube at an altitude of 27 m some 700 m east of the village of
Dolni Tsibar.
Its drainage basin covers a territory of 938 km2 and is situated between the basins of the rivers Lom to the northwest and the Ogosta to the southeast.
Settlements and economy
The Tsibritsa flows entirely in
Montana Province. There are 11 settlements along its course, one town and ten villages —
Smolyanovtsi, Klisuritsa and
Bezdenitsa in Montana Municipality,
Dolno Tserovene, Dalgodeltsi and
Yakimovo in Yakimovo Municipality, and Cherni Vrah,
Valchedram (town), Razgrad, Zlatia and
Ignatovo in Valchedram Municipality. The river's waters are used for
irrigation. The low plateau between the Tsibritsa to the west and the Ogosta to the east is known as Zlatia and is a fertile agricultural region.
Along its left bank between Dolno Tserovene and Dolni Tsibar runs a 37.2 km section of the third class III-818 road.
In Antiquity the region was inhabited by the Thracians tribe of the Triballi. In 1972 near the village of Yakimovo a Thracian treasure was discovered, consisting of several silver vessels, dated from the 2nd—1st century BC.
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