Chelopek is a village in Vratsa

Vratsa

Vratsa is a city in northwestern Bulgaria, at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Vratsa Province. As of February 2011, the town has a population of 60,482 inhabitants....

 municipality, Vratsa Province

Vratsa Province

Vratsa Province , former name Vratsa okrug) is a Bulgarian province located in the northwestern part of the country, between Danube river in the north and Stara Planina mountain in the south. It is named after its main town - Vratsa...

 in northwestern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. Located in the western Balkan Mountains

Balkan Mountains

The Balkan mountain range is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. The Balkan range runs 560 km from the Vrashka Chuka Peak on the border between Bulgaria and eastern Serbia eastward through central Bulgaria to Cape Emine on the Black Sea...

, it is known as the home village of Ivan Vazov

Ivan Vazov

Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

's heroine Baba Iliytsa from the tale One Bulgarian Woman. Her original timbed-framed

Timber framing

Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

 house has been reconstructed and is currently a museum of her life and local history and ethnography.

The village is not to be confused with the other Bulgarian places Chelopech

Chelopech

Chelopech is a village in the western part of Bulgaria. It is the only village in the Chelopech Municipality, Sofia Province.- Geographical outline :...

 and Chelopechene

Chelopechene

Chelopechene is a village in Kavarna Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria....

 nor with Čelopek

Celopek

Čelopek is a village in Republic of Macedonia. It is a part of the Brvenica municipality.-Notable citizens:*Ljube Boškoski - former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia*Nastoski Gavro-member of MRO and courier of Pitu Guli's guard...

 in the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

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