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Kanina (river)
The Kanina () is a 36 km-long river in southern Bulgaria, a left tributary of the river Mesta. Geography The river takes its source at an altitude of 1,726 m on the southern slopes of the summit of Sveti Petar (1,745 m) in the Dabrash ridge of the western Rhodope Mountains and drains the southwestern slopes of Dabrash. It initially flows in western direction in a gently sloped heavily forested valley. Following the confluence with its largest tributary the Vishteritsa, the river turns south and its valley deepens significantly, forming steep deforested slopes. In that section the gradient of the current is high and the Kanina forms many rapids and waterfalls. After the village of Marchevo it enters the Gotse Delchev Valley and forms a large alluvial cone. It flows into the Mesta at an altitude of 503 m some 2 km east of the town of Gotse Delchev. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 234 km2 or 6.79% of Mesta's total. The average altitude of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garmen Municipality
Garmen Municipality () is situated in the southeastern part of Blagoevgrad Province in Southwestern Bulgaria. It is a rural municipality, composed of 16 villages. The administrative center is the village of Garmen, but the most populated village is Ribnovo. The municipality lies in the western part of the Rhodope mountains. History The municipality of Garmen has been a home to many tribes throughout the years, but most important have been the Thracians, Slavs and Protobulgarians. The Thracian tribe of Bessi was the main tribe that settled in the region and there are a large number of remains left in the area, proof of their rich life here. The villages of Blatska, Debren, Dabnitsa and Hvostyane have found fragments of Attic vessels and there are mound necropolises. In about 146 AD, after long battles between Roman troops and Thracians, the area around Gotse Delchev fell to Roman rule. In 106 the emperor Trajan built the city Nicopolis ad Nestum in honor of the defeat. This town w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagoevgrad
Blagoevgrad ( ) is List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, а town in Southwestern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Blagoevgrad Municipality and of Blagoevgrad Province. With a population of almost inhabitants, it is the economic and cultural centre of Southwestern Bulgaria. It is located in the valley of the Struma River at the foot of the Rila Mountains, south of Sofia, close to the border with North Macedonia. Blagoevgrad features a pedestrian downtown, with preserved 19th-century architecture and numerous restaurants, cafés, coffee shops, and boutiques. It is home to two universities, the South-West University "Neofit Rilski" and the American University in Bulgaria. The town also hosts the "Sts. Cyril and Methodius National Humanitarian High School". The former Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki moved from Thessaloniki to Blagoevgrad (then Gorna Dzhumaya) in 1913. Name In Ottoman times the town was known as ''Yukarı Cuma'' in Turkish or ''Gorna Dzhumaya'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dospat–Vacha Hydropower Cascade
The Dospat–Vacha Hydroelectric Cascade () is situated in the western Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria, on the territory of the Smolyan Province, Smolyan, Pazardzhik Province, Pazardzhik and Plovdiv Provinces. It is owned by the NEK EAD, National Electricity Company. The cascade was constructed between 1963 and 2010 by "Hydrostroy". With catchment area of 2,083 km2 spanning from an altitude of 2,191 m at the summit of Golyam Perelik to 420 m at the Krichim Reservoir, it is among Bulgaria's most complex hydropower systems. The cascade receives water from several river drainages, mostly from the Nestos (river), Mesta, the Dospat (river), Dospat and the Vacha (river), Vacha. It includes five reservoirs and seven hydro power plants — Teshel Hydro Power Plant, Teshel, Devin Hydro Power Plant, Devin, Tsankov Kamak Hydro Power Plant, Tsankov Kamak, Orphey Hydroelectric Power Station, Orphey, Krichim Hydro Power Plant, Krichim and Vacha 1 and 2, with a combined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dospat Reservoir
Dospat Reservoir () is situated in the western part of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. The reservoir (formed by a dam in the town of Dospat, west of Smolyan) stretches nearly northwest to the city of Sarnitsa. At above the sea level, it is one of the highest dams in Bulgaria in terms of altitude, and, with its of water area, the second largest in capacity. It is fed by the Dospat River. The dam, which creates the lake, is built for hydroelectricity generation as part of the Dospat–Vacha Hydropower Cascade (500.2 MW). There is no hydroelectric power plant (HPP) installed at the dam but rather the water is taken to the Teshel HPP and then further down the Devin HPP and the Vacha River with its power plants, dams and reservoirs ( Tsankov Kamak HPP, Vacha Reservoir, Krichim Reservoir, Vacha II HPP, Krichim HPP and Vacha I HPP). Besides that, a minimum of is constantly released for sanitation of the Dospat River riverbed where the average input to the reservoir is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dospat (river)
The Dospat (; , ) is a river in the western Rhodope Mountains, a left tributary of the Mesta. It is situated in Bulgaria and Greece. Reaching a length of 110 km, of which 96 km are in Bulgaria, the river is the Mesta's largest tributary. Geography The Dospat springs at an altitude of 1,610 m some 800 m southwest of the summit of Gyultepe (1,643 m) in the Veliyshko-Videnishki Ridge of the western Rhodope Mountains. It flows south for about 6–7 km and then turns southeast, reaching the tip of the Dospat Reservoir at the town of Sarnitsa. In that section the riverbed is 6–8 m wide; the valley is 1.5–2 km; the depth of the river is 1–1.5 m. After leaving the reservoir at its dam, the river turns south, flows through a short narrow gorge and enters the small Barutin Valley, where it receives its largest tributary the Sarnena reka (39 km). After the confluence with the Sarnena reka, the Dospat bends southwest and enters a narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leshten
Leshten () is a mountainous village in Garmen Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is situated in the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains, 5 kilometers north of Garmen, 75 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad and 2 kilometers south of Gorno Dryanovo Gorno Dryanovo is a mountainous village in Garmen Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is situated in the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains 6 kilometers northeast of Garmen and 73 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad ... on the road between Garmen and Kovachevitsa. In the early years of the 20th century it was a busy village with more than 500 inhabitants, most of them non-Muslim. Nowadays there are only a few local permanent inhabitants, but many of the old houses have been restored and renovated as summerhouses or guest-houses. They were built in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in the architectural style typical for this region of the country. Most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kovachevitsa
Kovachevitsa (; also transliterated ''Kovačevica'') is a village in Garmen Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. Geography The village is situated in the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains in the steep valley of the Kanina river, 9 kilometers north of Garmen, 71 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad and 119 kilometers southeast of Sofia. History The village was founded by refugees from different villages, who tried to escape the Ottoman assimilation in the 17th century. The isolated location and the fresh water supply were the most important factors in this process. The village has never had Ottoman administration, therefore it preserved the Bulgarian traditions. St. Nicholas' church (, ) was built in 1847 and a bell-tower was built in 1900. The church has been designated as a national cultural monument. The first school was founded in 1820 and run by priests. In 1854, a secular school was founded. The school moved to a new two-story house in 1888. Nowadays the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garmen
Garmen () is a village in Blagoevgrad Province in Bulgaria and is the seat of Garmen Municipality. It is located in southwestern Bulgaria in the Western Rhodope Mountains in the Chech region 75 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad and 127 kilometers southeast of Sofia. History Around 146 AD, after a series of conflicts between Roman troops and Thracians, the region surrounding Gotse Delchev came under Roman control. In 106 AD, Emperor Trajan established the city of Nicopolis ad Nestum to commemorate the conquest. Although the town was destroyed by the Slavs at the end of the 6th century, the Smolyani tribe later settled in the area. The Slavs contributed to the local economy as farmers and herdsmen, cultivating crops like millet, wheat, flax, hemp, and various legumes, and raising birds, cattle, sheep, and goats. During the Ottoman period, Garmen was frequently mentioned in Ottoman records, and a Turkish grange was constructed on the site of Nicopolis ad Nestum. Up until the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagoevgrad Province
Blagoevgrad Province (, ''oblast Blagoevgrad'' or Благоевградска област, ''Blagoevgradska oblast''), also known as Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia (), (''Pirinska Makedoniya or Bulgarska Makedoniya'') is a province (''oblast'') of southwestern Bulgaria. It borders four other Bulgarian provinces to the north and east, the Greek region of Macedonia to the south, and North Macedonia to the west. The province has 14 municipalities with 12 towns. Its principal city is Blagoevgrad, while other significant towns include Bansko, Gotse Delchev, Melnik, Petrich, Razlog, Sandanski, and Simitli. Geography The province has a territory of and a population of 323,552 (). It is the third largest in Bulgaria after Burgas and Sofia Provinces and comprises 5.8% of the country's territory. Blagoevgrad Province includes the mountains, or parts of, Rila (highest point of the Balkans — Musala summit, 2925 m), Pirin (highest point — Vihren summit, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodope Mountains
The Rhodopes (; , ; , ''Rodopi''; ) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in Greece. Golyam Perelik is its highest peak at . The mountain range gives its name to the terrestrial ecoregion Rodope montane mixed forests that belongs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome and the Palearctic realm. The region is particularly notable for its karst areas with their deep river gorges, large caves and specific sculptured forms, such as the Trigrad Gorge. A significant part of Bulgaria's hydropower resources are located in the western areas of the range. There are a number of hydro-cascades and dams used for electricity production, irrigation, and as tourist destinations. Name and mythology The name of the Rhodope Mountains is of Thracian origin. Rhod-ope (Род-oпа) is interpreted as the first name of a river, meaning "rusty/reddish river", wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognyanovo, Blagoevgrad Province
Ognyanovo is a resort village with thermal mineral water springs in Garmen Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. Geography The village is situated in the valley of Mesta river in the skirts of the Dabrash part of the Rhodope Mountains. The village is 3 kilometers north of Garmen and together with Marchevo the three villages are almost merged. Ognyanovo is laying 72 kilometers southeast of Blagoevgrad and 125 kilometers southeast of Sofia. History The mineral water has been discovered in the Roman times. There are remains of Roman baths. Also a medieval village and a watching tower remains have been unearthed near the village. The Roman town Nicopolis ad Nestum is just few kilometers south of the village. The village was named Fotovishta until 1934 and Ognenovo until 1966. It was mentioned for first time in the Ottoman documents as ''Hotovishta'' in 1478-1479 as Christian village with 1 Muslim and 53 non-Muslim households. In the 19th century people of Pomak origin ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
