German ( bg, Герман ) is a village in central western
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...
, part of Sofia Capital Municipality. It lies at the foot of the Lozen Mountains, at , 639 metres above sea level. As of 2015, it has a population of 2,500 and the mayor is Margarita Stankova.
German is the site of the German Monastery of Saint
John of Rila, allegedly founded in the 10th century and then abandoned and reconstructed several times. It features a church from 1885 with frescoes from 1886 by
Samokov
Samokov ( bg, Самоков ) is a town in Sofia Province in the southwest of Bulgaria. It is situated in a basin between the mountains Rila and Vitosha, 55 kilometres from the capital Sofia. Due to the suitable winter sports conditions, Sam ...
masters. Since 1928, it is property of the Bulgarian
Zograf Monastery
The Saint George the Zograf Monastery or Zograf Monastery ( bg, Зографски манастир; el, Μονή Ζωγράφου, ''Moní Zográphou'') is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos (the "Holy Mountain") ...
on
Mount Athos
Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the peni ...
.
Until June 2006, German had a relatively successful football team, PFC Conegliano German, who achieved promotion to the
A PFG
The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...
, the highest division of Bulgarian football. Upon promotion, however, they changed ownership, left German and were renamed
PFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia.
The name of the village comes from
Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, not the country or people of Germany.
This village is not to be confused with the smaller village of Dzherman (Джерман - pronounced "Jerman") near Dupnitsa in
Kyustendil Province
Kyustendil Province ( bg, Област Кюстендил, trl ''Oblast Kyustendil'') is a province in southwestern Bulgaria, extending over an area of (constituting 2.7% of the total territory of the Republic of Bulgaria), and with a populat ...
.
German Peninsula on
Fallières Coast in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
is named after the neighborhood.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Villages in Sofia City Province
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