Borets is a village in Southern Bulgaria, in Brezovo Municipality,

Plovdiv Province Plovdiv Province (: ''Oblast Plovdiv'', former name okrug, Plovdiv okrug) is a provinces of Bulgaria, province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities (общини, ''obshtini'', sing. общинa, ''obshtina'') on a territ ...

. Its population is 699 people as of 2020.

Geography

Borets is located 37 kilometers northeast of

Plovdiv Plovdiv (, ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, second-largest city in Bulgaria, 144 km (93 miles) southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 490,983 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is a cultural hub ...

, 16 kilometers west of

Brezovo Brezovo ( ) is a town in Southern Bulgaria. It is located in Plovdiv oblast and is close to the town of Rakovski. Populated places The following towns and villages are located inside the territory of Brezovo municipality: * Babek * Borets * ...

and 14 kilometers northwest of Rakovski. It has an average altitude of 200 meters above sea level. The climate in the area is moderate. During winter the average temperature is around 0ºС, while during summer it averages around 26ºС. In the

municipality there are 82 dams, making the area a centre of water sports and water tourism.

Pavel Banya Pavel Banya () is a small town in Stara Zagora Province, South-central Bulgaria, located between the towns of Kalofer and Kazanlak. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Pavel Banya Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a ...

, a mineral springs touristic town, is located around 57 kilometers northeast of the village. Borets has a community center, library, Catholic church and school.

Notable people

* Bozhana Zlatanova, key Bulgarian figure in socialist labour * Vasil Pramatarski, (1883 - ?), active member of the

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...

, and a participant in the Dimitar Tashev's war party.

Public institutions

* School "Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii", which in 2004 became 120 years old. The first ever school teacher to take part of the school was Nikola Ivanov Kibarski. * Community Hall and library "Luch", which is entitled to organize cultural events in the village. * Two Christian temples, a Catholic church "Sveti Anton" and an Orthodox church "Sv. sv Kiril i Metodii"

References

{{Reflist Villages in Plovdiv Province