Chuprene

Chuprene (, ) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Chuprene Municipality, which lies in the southern part of Vidin Province. The village is located 20 kilometres from Belogradchik, 70 kilometres from Vidin, and 13-15 kilometres from the Bulgarian-Serbian border.

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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.official_name: Chuprene
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.native_name: Чупрене
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1: Provinces(Oblast)
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.timezone: EET
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.utc_offset: +2
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.timezone_DST: EEST
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.utc_offset_DST: +3
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.map_caption: Location of Chuprene
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.image_skyline: Center of Chuprene.jpg
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.image_caption: The central square in Chuprene with the clock tower, the church and the school
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map: Bulgaria
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_label_position: right
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Chuprene
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.postal_code_type: Postal Code
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1: Vidin
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_total: 585

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Chuprene
Population: 436
Area: 70.668
Elevation: 556
Image: Center of Chuprene.jpg
Dialing code: 09327

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Commons category: Chuprene
postal code: 3950

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Chuprene is situated on the Manastirka and Chuprene rivers in the western Balkan Mountains, at the foot of the Sveti Nikola Mountain and close to Midzhur, the highest peak of the western Balkan Mountains at 2,169 metres. The village is part of the copper ore vein from Bor to Chiprovtsi, and may have been settled by German ("Saxon") ore miners in the Middle Ages. The area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age and was part of the Roman Empire in Antiquity, the First Bulgarian Empire and the Second Bulgarian Empire in medieval times. The village itself was first mentioned in an Ottoman register of the Vidin sanjak of 1454–1455. Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui mentions it as Chupren in the description of his journey from Belogradchik to Niš in 1841. After the Liberation of Bulgaria, Chuprene grew rapidly and reached a peak population of 1,800–2,000.