Buhovo ( bg, Бухово ) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in western
Bulgaria
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and a district within the
Sofia Capital Municipality
The Stolichna Municipality ( bg, Столична община, lit=Capital Municipality, translit=Stolichna obshtina (also transcribed as Stolična obština)) is an obshtina (''municipality'') in Sofia City Province, Western Bulgaria.
It is named ...
. Buhovo is located 15 km southeast of the center of the capital
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...
.
History
In
prehistory
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, during the middle and late
Neolithic
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(New Stone Age), Buhovo was located 1.5 kilometers east of its current location.
Evidence of its previous occupants remains (potsherds, hammers, axes and awls), through which the event is dated. Back then the name of Buhovo was ''Ursul''.
In 1928 the "St. Nicholas"
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
was built. In 1938, with help from
Germany
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,
uranium
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deposits were developed.
The village of Buhovo was declared a town with ''Decree 1942'' of the State Council of the PRB of 09.04.1974 (Prom. SG. 72 of 17.09.1974).
Landmarks
* Stadium "Minior"
* A big sports hall
* Monument to the plane of the regiment "
Nikola Bonev"
* "St.
Maria Magdalena" monastery
* "St.
Arhangel Mihail" monastery
* Miraculous icon "Truly Meet" from Mount Athos
* Carting "Buhovo" (formerly)
* Huge rural water fountain used for carpet cleaning.
Regular events
Annual
fair on the last Sunday of June.
Celebrating New Year in front of the Cultural Center.
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Sofia City Province
References
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