Ustren

Ustren (Bulgarian: Устрен) is a village in the municipality of Dzhebel, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria.

[1] Of the inhabitants whose ethnicity was identified, 216 were Turkish; no other ethnicities were identified in the village.

[2] The Turkish name for the village is Ustra[3] or Ustura.

[4] The village is situated 11 km to the southwest of Dzhebel in a mountainous area in the eastern Rhodopes and has a school, a chitalishte, and a mosque.

[5] Its most famous sight is the medieval fortress of Ustra, located approximately 2.5 kilometers from the village.