Yabalkovets

Yabalkovets (Ябълковец) is a mountain village in Ardino Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern-central Bulgaria. It is located 199.97 km from Sofia, and roughly 16 km by road northeast of the municipal town of Ardino. To the southeast is Chubrika. It covers an area of 11.232 square kilometres and as of 2013 had a population of 204 people.

In 2012, Yabulkovets Mountain Inn, a.k.a. Mountain View Wellness Complex, with 32 rooms, restaurant, sauna, Jacuzzi, steam bath, indoor and outdoor pools and other facilities opened.

Notable people

 * Faik Ismailov (1935 - 1995), writer