Pravets

Pravets or Pravetz (, also transliterated as Pravec, ) is a town in Pravets Municipality in central western Bulgaria, located approximately from the capital Sofia. Pravets is home town of Pravetz computers.

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Settlement.name: Pravets
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Autumn in Pravets.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Pravets in autumn
Settlement.image_shield: BULPravetsCOA.png
Settlement.pushpin_map: Bulgaria
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Pravets within Bulgaria
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Bulgaria
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Sofia Province
Settlement.leader_party: BSP
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Rumen Guninski
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 46.073
Settlement.elevation_m: 440
Settlement.population_as_of: 15 June 2020

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Official name: Pravets
Population: 3552
Area: 46.073
Elevation: 440
Official website: www.pravetz.org/BG.php
Image: Pravets summer 2004.JPG
Dialing code: 07133
Licence plate code: CO

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postal code: 2161
Commons category: Pravets
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Pravets has a population of 4,512 people. Mountains surround it, which allows for a mild climate with rare winds. In the outskirts there is an artificial lake used for fishing and recreation. The town is the birthplace of Bulgaria's longtime communist president Todor Zhivkov. The first microprocessor factory in Bulgaria was established in Pravets. The computers produced there, which were among the first in Bulgaria, were named Pravetz.