Berkovitsa

Berkovitsa
Berkovitsa

Location of Berkovitsa

Coordinates: 43°14′N 23°7′E / 43.233°N 23.117°E / 43.233; 23.117Coordinates: 43°14′N 23°7′E / 43.233°N 23.117°E / 43.233; 23.117
Country Bulgaria
Province
(Oblast)
Montana
Government
  Mayor Dimitranka Kamenova
Elevation 371 m (1,217 ft)
Population (01.02.2011)[1]
  City 13,463
  Urban 18,822
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal Code 3500
Area code(s) 0953

Berkovitsa (Bulgarian: Берковица) is a town and ski resort in northwestern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Berkovitsa Municipality, Montana Province and is close to the town of Varshets. As of December 2009, it has a population of 13,917 inhabitants.[1]

Berkovitsa is situated on the northern slope of Kom Peak of the Berkovska Stara Planina Mountain along the valley of the Berkovitsa River, which is a tributary to the Barziya River, at an altitude above sea level 405 m. The town was mentioned for the first time in Ottoman documents of 1488.[2] It is near the site of an old fortified settlement on the road from Sofia to Lom. The remains of the fortress and a church were discovered on high ground at Kaleto, just to the west of the present-day town. The former settlement was known as early as the reign of King Kaloyan and was mentioned as a border settlement in the period of the Vidin Kingdom.

Berkovitsa Glacier, on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named for Berkovitsa.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Berkovitsa is twinned with:

Notable natives

References

  1. 1 2 (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  2. Nicoara Beldiceanu, Les actes des premiers sultans conservés dans les manuscrits Turcs de la Bibliothèque Nationale a Paris, II, Paris, La Haye, 1964, p. 218, note 2

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Berkovitsa.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, September 17, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.