RASGRAD or Hesargrad, a town of Bulgaria, with a station about 2 miles distant on the Varna and Rustchuk

Railway, is situated on the Byaly Lorn, 970 feet above sea-level. It has increased in population during the last fifty years from 3000 to 10,000 inhabitants. In 1810 it was the scene of the defeat of the Turks by the Russians.