Key facts
- Elevation
- 2,376 m (7,795 ft)
- Prominence
- 1,567 m (5,141 ft)
- Listing
- Ultra
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Protected area
- Central Balkan National Park
- Parent range
- Balkan Mountains
- Easiest route
- a two and a half hour climb from Ray Resthouse (1,560 m) at the south foot
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- Commons category
- Botev
- topographic prominence
- 1567
- located in protected area
- Central Balkan National Park
- mountain range
- Balkan Mountains
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
View of Botev Peak from I-6 road (Bulgaria) Botev Peak (Bulgarian: (връх) Ботев Bulgarian pronunciation: [(vrɤx) ˈbɔtɛf]) is, at 2,376 metres (7,795 ft) above sea level, the highest peak of the Balkan Mountains in southeastern Europe. It is located close to the geographic centre of Bulgaria, and is part of the Central Balkan National Park.
Until 1950, when it was renamed in honour of Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev, the peak was called Yumrukchal (Юмрукчал, from Ottoman Turkish Yumrukçal, 'a fist-like peak').
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Botev Peak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.