Kakrina ( bg, Къкрина) is a village in central northern

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, part of

Lovech Municipality Lovech Municipality ( bg, Община Ловеч) is a Municipalities of Bulgaria, municipality (''obshtina'') in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain (Bulgaria) ...

Lovech Province Lovech Province ( bg, Област Ловеч, translit=Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 200 ...

. It lies in the central Fore-

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, at an altitude of . As of 2008, it has a population of 298. Kakrina is mainly famous as the site of the Kakrina Inn (Къкринско ханче, ''Kakrinsko hanche'') where national hero

Vasil Levski Vasil Levski ( bg, Васил Левски, spelled in old Bulgarian orthography as , ), born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (; 18 July 1837 – 18 February 1873), was a Bulgarian revolutionary who is, today, a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed th ...

was captured by the Ottoman government in 1872. The inn is today a museum and one of the official

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Gallery

Image:Къкрина 962668299 d1a21c5bc4 o.jpg , Monument to Levski Image:Къкрина 964164366 742d237f11 o.jpg , Monument to Levski Image:Къкрина 976377040 6a02e0ee54 o.jpg , Kakrina Inn Museum Image:Къкрина 977912082 d574492bcf o.jpg , Kakrina Inn Museum Image:Къкрина 964595071 d86585f59e o.jpg , Kakrina Inn Museum Image:Къкрина 966060970 9e5de22c5f o.jpg , Village centre Image:Къкрина 963979927 12a1e30e11 o.jpg , Plate commemorating 26 December 1872

Honours

Kakrina Point Kakrina Point ( bg, нос Къкрина, ‘Nos Kakrina’ \'nos 'k&-kri-na\) is the rock-tipped point projecting 400 m south-southeastwards from the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the north si ...

on Clarence Island, Antarctica is named after the village.

External links

* {{Lovech-geo-stub Villages in Lovech Province Lovech