Cyrillic
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: Гребен, meaning "ridge" or literally "comb") is a
mountain
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in southeastern
Serbia
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, with a small section of the southwestern ridge in
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
.
It is named after a large karst
ridge
A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides. The sides of a ridge slope away from a narrow top, the crest or ridgecrest, wi ...
that runs along its spine. Greben rises near the village of
Poganovo
Poganovo () is a village/town near Jerma river in the Serbian municipality of Dimitrovgrad, near the border with Bulgaria. The 14th century Serbian Orthodox
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in Serbia, in the municipality of Dimitrovgrad, and extends southeast towards the Bulgarian village of Vrabcha. Prior to the Treaty of Neuilly of 1919, after the
First World War
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, the area was part of Bulgaria.
Its highest peak ''Beženište'' (or ''Dziglina livada'') stands at an elevation of 1,338 meters above sea level. The highest peak that falls within Bulgaria is ''Dragovski kamak'' (Драговски камък), at 1,118 m. Due to the characteristic pyramidal shape of its north face, Dragovski kamak is referred to as the "
Matterhorn
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