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Plana (mountain)
Plana () is a mountain range in western Bulgaria with an altitude of 1,337 meters above sea level. It is part of the Srednogorie mountain system that from west to east includes the mountain ranges of Greben, Zavalska Planina Zavalska Planina () is a mountain range in Pernik Province, western Bulgaria, forming the westernmost part of the Zavalska– Plana chain of the Srednogorie mountain range system. The mountain range spans in direction northwest–southeast for ..., Viskyar, Lyulin, Vitosha, Plana and Sredna Gora. Plana Peak in Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, Antarctica is named after it. Geography To the northeast and east the Pancharevo Gorge and the Iskar Reservoir form the boundary with Lozen Mountain and Vakarel Mountain, which are sub-divisions of Sredna Gora. To the southeast, south and southwest its slopes descend to the Samokov Valley; to the west the Yarema Saddle (1,290 m) links it to Vitosha. Plana has an oval shape, resembling that of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitosha
Vitosha ( ), the ancient ''Scomius'' or ''Scombrus'', is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Vitosha is one of the symbols of Sofia and the closest site for hiking, alpinism and skiing. Convenient bus lines and rope ways render the mountain easily accessible. Vitosha has the outlines of an enormous dome. The territory of the mountain includes Vitosha nature park that encompasses the best known and most frequently visited parts. The foothills of Vitosha shelter resort quarters of Sofia; Knyazhevo quarter has mineral water, mineral hot spring, springs. Vitosha is the oldest nature park in the Balkans. The mountain emerged as a result of volcanic activity and has been subsequently shaped by the slow folding of the granite rock layers and a series of gradual uplifts of the area. It appears dome shaped at first sight, but the mountain, 19 km long by 17 km wide, actually consists of concentric denudational plateaus rising in tiers one abov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igneous Intrusion
In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Intrusions have a wide variety of forms and compositions, illustrated by examples like the Palisades Sill of New York and New Jersey; the Henry Mountains of Utah; the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa; Shiprock in New Mexico; the Ardnamurchan intrusion in Scotland; and the Sierra Nevada Batholith of California. Because the solid country rock into which magma intrudes is an excellent insulator, cooling of the magma is extremely slow, and intrusive igneous rock is coarse-grained ( phaneritic). Intrusive igneous rocks are classified separately from extrusive igneous rocks, generally on the basis of their mineral content. The relative amounts of quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, and feldspathoid is particularly important in classifying intrusive igneous rocks. Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorni Okol
Gorny/Górny (masculine), Gornaya/Górna (feminine), or Gornoye/Górne (neuter) may refer to: Places *Gorny District Gorny District (; , ''Gornay uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in ..., a district of the Sakha Republic, Russia * Gorny (inhabited locality) (''Gornaya'', ''Gornoye''), name of several inhabited localities in Russia * Gorny (air base) * Gorny Camp Directorate of Gulag *, Russia Other * Gorny (surname) *Gorny Institute, common name of the National Mineral Resources University See also * * Gorny Institute, a stratovolcano named after the university {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia City Province
Sofia City Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. Its administrative center is the city of Sofia, the capital of the country. The province borders on Sofia Province and Pernik Province. It consists of only one municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality – the Sofia Capital Municipality. Cities and towns Bankya, Novi Iskar, Sofia Villages Balsha, Bistritsa, Sofia, Bistritsa, Buhovo, Busmantsi, Chepintsi, Dobroslavtsi, Dolni Bogrov, Dolni Pasarel, German, Bulgaria, German, Gorni Bogrov, Ivanyane, Zheleznitsa, Jelyava, Jiten, Kazichene, Klisura, Kokalyane, Krivina, Sofia, Krivina, Kubratovo, Katina, Lokorsko, Lozen, Sofia Province, Lozen, Malo Buchino, Marchaevo, Mirovyane, Mramor, Negovan, Bulgaria, Negovan, Pancharevo, Plana, Bulgaria, Plana, Podgumer, Svetovrachene, Vladaya, Voluyak, Voynegovtsi, Yana, etc. Demographics Population (2011 census): 1,291,591 Ethnic groups (2011): Identified themselves: 1,178,131 * Bulgarians: 1,136,433 (96.4%) * Romani people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Province
Sofia Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia remains the seat of its administration. The province borders on the provinces of Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Lovech, Vratsa, Montana, and "Sofia City Province" (which is in a separate ''oblast'', see Sofia Administration), and borders with Serbia to the northwest. History Prehistory and antiquity Archaeological excavations near Chavdar suggest that the region has been settled by humans as early as 7,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of a mass settlement dates back to Thracian times, including ''tumuli'' (burial mounds) which remain poorly studied. According to Thucydides, the areas north of Vitosha were inhabited by the Tilataei and the Treri. The Triballi were also known to have inhabited the region around Serdica. The Serdi, a Celtic tribe that appeared in place of the vanished Treri and Tilataei, were first mentio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheleznitsa, Sofia City Province
Zheleznitsa () is a large village in the Pancharevo district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, located at 23 km to the south of the city center. it has 1,633 inhabitants. Geography The village is situated at an altitude of 1,023 m on the eastern foothills of the Vitosha mountain range facing the Sofia Valley to the north. The Zheleznishka reka runs through the village and flows into the Iskar (river), Iskar at the Pancharevo Gorge a few kilometers to the northeast. There are mineral springs with a total discharge of 1,000 L/min and temperature of 28–32 °С. It falls within the Continental climate, continental climatic zone with alpine influence from Vitosha. The soils are brown forest. Administratively, Zheleznitsa is part of the Pancharevo district in the southern reaches of the Sofia City Province. It has a territory of 50.304 km2. It is accessible via the third class III-181, which connects it to the neighbouring village of Bistritsa, Sofia, Bistri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belchinski Bani
Belchinski Bani () is a village and a spa resort in the Sofia Province southwestern Bulgaria, located in the Samokov Municipality. As of the 2024 the village had a population of 22. Geography Belchinski Bani is located in the Samokov Valley at the foothills of the Rila mountain range, very close to mountain ranges of Vitosha, Verila and Plana. It is close the river Palakaria of the Iskar drainage. The village lies some 37 km west south of the national capital Sofia, 12 km west of the municipal center Samokov and about a kilometer east of the village of Belchin. It lies just north of the second class II-62 road Kyustendil–Dupnitsa Dupnitsa, or Dupnica ( (previously ), ), is a town in Western Bulgaria. It is at the foot of the highest mountains in the Balkan Peninsula – the Rila Mountains, and about south of the capital Sofia. Dupnitsa is the second largest town in Ky ...–Samokov. Mineral baths Belchinski Bani is located over mineral springs with a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheleznishka Reka
The Zheleznishka reka () is a river in western Bulgaria, a left tributary of the Iskar. The river is 11 km long and takes its source from the Kazana area on the eastern slopes of the Vitosha mountain range at an altitude of 1,677 m near the summits of Kazana, Golyam Kupen and Belcheva Skala. It flows in eastern direction until the confluence with the Ustruzhki Dol downstream of the village of Zheleznitsa. It then turns northeast. The river is also known as the Selska reka upstream and the Vedena downstream. Its largest tributary is the Egulya, which springs from the Plana mountain range. For about a kilometer along its banks near Zheleznitsa passes one of the main trails in Vitosha Nature Park, which leads to its highest summit, the Cherni Vrah (2,290 m). It its lower course the Zheleznishka reka forms a deep valley, which serves as the orographic boundary between Vitosha and Plana. It flows into the Iskar in the Pancharevo Gorge at the Devil's Bridge near the medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palakaria
The Palakaria () is a river in south-western Bulgaria, a left tributary of the Iskar. The river is 39 km long and takes its source from the southern slopes of the summit of Kupena in Vitosha mountain range at an altitude of 2,015 m. It flows in southern direction and turns to the south-east downstream of the village of Yarlovo and flows through a wide valley known as Palakariata between the mountain ranges of Plana to the north-east and Verila to the south-west. At the village of Belchin it turns to the east and flows through the Samokov Valley very close to Relyovo. Palakaria then turns in north-eastern direction at the village of Rayovo and to the north downstream of the village of Shiroki Dol. It flows into the Iskar at an altitude of 827 m. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 402 km2 or 4.7% of Iskar's total. The average annual flow is 1.85 m3/s at the village of Relyovo. The river flows through the village of Yarlovo, Kovachevtsi, Popovyane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iskar (river)
The Iskar (, ; ) is a right tributary of the Danube. With a length of 368 km, it is the longest river that runs entirely within Bulgaria.Statistical Yearbook 2017 National Statistical Institute (Bulgaria), p. 17 Originating as three forks in Balkan's highest mountain range Rila, the Iskar flows in a northern direction until its confluence with the Danube. As it flows northwards it fuels the largest artificial lake in the country, the Iskar Reservoir, forms the divide between the Vitosha and Plana Mountains in the west and the Sredna Gora mountain range in the east before entering the Sofia Valley, which contains the nation's capital Sofia. From there the Iskar runs through the Balkan Mountains, forming the spectacular 84 km long Iskar Gorge. As it crosses the mountains, its water course turns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
