Chereshovo is a village in the municipality of Belitsa

Belitsa Municipality

Belitsa Municipality is located in the southwestern part of Bulgaria in the northeastern part of the Blagoevgrad Province. The adminastrative center is the town of Belitsa and there are yet 11 villages and the ski resort Semkovo.- Geography :...

, in Blagoevgrad Province

Blagoevgrad Province

Blagoevgrad Province , also known as Pirin Macedonia , is a province of southwestern Bulgaria. It borders four other Bulgarian provinces to the north and east, Greece to the south, and the Republic of Macedonia to the west. The province has 14 municipalities with 12 towns...

, 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...

. It is located approximately 27 km west of Belitsa

Belitsa

Belitsa is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located in the Belitsa Municipality of the Blagoevgrad oblast .-External links:* *...

 and 88 kilometers southeast from Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

. A fourth class municipal road connects the village with the secondary national road Razlog

Razlog

Razlog is a town and ski resort in Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria. It is situated in the Razlog Valley and was first mentioned during the reign of Byzantine emperor Basil II....

 - Velingrad

Velingrad

Velingrad is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of Chepino Valley, part of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative center of the homonymous Velingrad Municipality and one of the most popular Bulgarian balneological resorts...

 via the villages of Kraishte,Lyutovo and Babyak. As of 2010 it had a population of 270 people all of them muslim

Islam

Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

 of pomak origin. Aerial electrical supply and drinking water from local sources are provided. The village has no elected mayor, having less than 350 inhabitants and a suffragan mayor, appointed from the municipal council is in charge.