Oreshak
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Oreshak is a village, situated in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains
in Troyan Municipality
, Lovech Province
, Bulgaria. There is a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery
— one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2005, the village had a population of 2,306 (2007). The incumbent Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim
was born there on October 29, 1914.
Oreshak is a village, situated in the middle part of the 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...
in Troyan Municipality
Troyan Municipality
Troyan Municipality is a municipality in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan...
, Lovech Province
Lovech Province
Lovech Province is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.-Municipalities:...
, Bulgaria. There is a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery
Troyan Monastery
The Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God or, as it is more commonly called, the Troyan Monastery is the third largest monastery in Bulgaria...
— one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2005, the village had a population of 2,306 (2007). The incumbent Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim
Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria
Patriarch Maxim is the current head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.He was the second of two children of Nayden Minkov Rachev, but very little is known about his parents' background...
was born there on October 29, 1914.