Muhovo ( bg, Мухово) is a village in

Ihtiman Municipality Ihtiman ( bg, Ихтиман ) is a town in western Bulgaria, part of Sofia Province. It is located in the Ihtimanska Sredna Gora mountains and lies in a valley 48 km from Sofia and 95 km from Plovdiv, close to the Trakiya motorway. Fo ...

Sofia Province Sofia Province ( bg, Софийска област, translit=Sofiyska oblast) is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia remains its administrative center. The province borders on t ...

, 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 Macedon ...

with a population of 138.

Geography

The village is located in the mountain of

Sredna Gora Sredna Gora ( bg, Средна гора ) is a mountain range in central Bulgaria, situated south of and parallel to the Balkan Mountains and extending from the Iskar to the west and the elbow of Tundzha north of Yambol to the east. Sredna Gora i ...

, on the southern edge of the

Topolnitsa Reservoir {{Infobox lake , name = Topolnitsa Dam Язовир Тополница , image = Topolnitsa Dam 157.JPG , caption = The far northern part of the Topolnitsa Dam, near the village of Poibrene. , image_bathymetry = , pushpin_map=Bulgaria , capti ...

, at 22 km to the east of Ihtiman. Muhovo is in the vicinity of the villages of

Lesichovo Lesichovo ( bg, Лесичово) is a village in the Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria. As of 2005 it has 982 inhabitants. The village is a centre of the Lesichovo Municipality. It hosts an annual Kukeri Kukeri ( bg, кукери; singular: kuker ...

and Tserovo. The surrounding region has a soft microclimate due to the reservoir and the southern slopes of the mountain. There are 280 sunny day annually which is above the average for Bulgaria.

History

Before the construction of the dam the village was located on the banks of the

Topolnitsa River The Topolnitsa ( bg, Тополница ) is a river in southern Bulgaria, an important left tributary of the Maritsa. It takes its source from Bich Peak in Sredna Gora close to Koprivshtitsa; it is known as the Shirineyska in its upper course. Its ...

. During the

April Uprising The April Uprising ( bg, Априлско въстание, Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units brutally su ...

the ''Flying Band'' of

Georgi Benkovski Georgi Benkovski ( bg, Георги Бенковски) (1843 – 12 May 1876) was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev (Гаврил Груев Хлътев), a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bu ...

passed through the villages of Oborishte,

Poibrene Poibrene ( bg, Поибрене) is a village in the Panagyurishte municipality, western Bulgaria. It is located west of the town and has 850 inhabitants. The large dam Topolnitsa is 1 km west of the village. Several monuments there commemo ...

and Muhovo. In Muhovo over 40 people volunteered to join Benkovski. Many people from the village took part in the

September Uprising The September Uprising ( bg, Септемврийско въстание, ''Septemvriysko vastanie'') was a 1923 communist insurgency in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) attempted to overthrow Alexander Tsankov's new government e ...

of 1923.

Religion

Currently a new church named after

Saint George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...

is under construction. The old church is now underwater in the reservoir and used to have a large yard and a separate belfry.

Gallery

File:Muhovo-and-Topolnitsa-dam.jpg, Muhovo and the shore of the Topolnitsa reservoir. File:Muhovo-centre.jpg, The center of the village. File:Muhovo-partisans-monument.jpg, The partisan monument in Muhovo. File:Muhovo-war-monument.jpg, The monument to the fallen in the wars in the village.

External links

www.muhovo.info
— Information for Muhovo

Footnotes

{{Ihtiman Municipality Villages in Sofia Province