Medkovets
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Medkovets (, ; also transliterated Medkovec or Medkovetz) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Montana Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Medkovets Municipality, which lies in the northern part of Montana Province.
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- Montana
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_total
- 2,050
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_as_of
- 2008
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.elevation_m
- 182
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.postal_code
- 3670
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.area_code
- 09727
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.leader_name
- Veromir Milanov
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.official_name
- Medkovets
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.native_name
- Медковец
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- Country
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1
- Provinces(Oblast)
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- EET
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.utc_offset
- +2
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- EEST
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- +3
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- Location of Medkovets
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- Bulgaria
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Medkovets
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Located in
- Medkovets
- Population
- 1313
- Area
- 81.697
- Elevation
- 182
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Medkovets
- Image
- Medkovets-Museum.JPG
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- Medkovets
- postal code
- 3670
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- WikiProject Bulgaria
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Medkovets (, ; also transliterated Medkovec or Medkovetz) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Montana Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Medkovets Municipality, which lies in the northern part of Montana Province.
The area around Medkovets has been inhabited since prehistoric times, as proven using archaeological evidence. The village itself was founded no later than the first half of the 18th century, with the name being derived from the word med ("honey") according to popular etymology. In the 1830s, Medkovets took part in organized struggle against the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria. The first school in the village, a monastical school, was opened in 1821, while a secular school was founded in 1845, when Ivan Kulin was knez ("mayor"). The Church of Saint Paraskeva was built in 1859, with the iconostasis carved by the Bulgarian masters Filipovi from the region of Debar, Vardar Macedonia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Medkovets” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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