Katunets () is a

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n village in the Municipality of

Ugarchin Ugarchin ( ) is a town located along the Kamenitsa river in the Lovech Province in central northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Ugarchin Municipality. The town is about 30 kilometers away in the west from the main ...

, northern

. The village is situated near the towns of

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and

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. The 43,5 km long Katuneshka river flows through the village.

History

The first document mentioning Katunets is from the Turkish registries in 1840. According to the newspaper "Stremlenie" from 25 February 1912 the population of the village was around 2 750 people at the time. Katunets has soldiers from the

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, the

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and the second

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. The village school opened in 1914. A book about the village - "Katunets, small encyclopedia" was released by Vutzo Bobenski and Petar Bobenski.

Famous people

*Veselin Toetev Belomazhov — Bulgarian ambassador to

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from 2 February 1973 to 1 January 1977. {{Ugarchin Villages in Lovech Province