Pravets
Sign in to savePravets 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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- Pravets
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- Town
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- Pravets in autumn
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- Bulgaria
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- Location of Pravets within Bulgaria
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- Bulgaria
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- Province
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- Sofia Province
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- BSP
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- Rumen Guninski
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- Metric
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- 46.073
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- 440
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- 15 June 2020
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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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pravets” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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