Oreshak () is a village, situated in the middle part of the
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border betw ...
in
Troyan Municipality
Troyan Municipality ( bg, Община Троян) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named a ...
,
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 ...
, Bulgaria. There is a famous ethnographic complex very close to the
Troyan Monastery
The Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God ( bg, Троянски манастир „Успение Богородично“) or, as it is more commonly called, the Troyan Monastery is the third largest monastery in Bulgaria. I ...
— one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2005, the village had a population of 2,306 (2007). The late
Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim
Patriarch Maxim (Maximus) ( bg, Патриарх Максим) (Marin Naydenov Minkov, October 29, 1914 – November 6, 2012) was the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 1971 until his death.
He was born in Oreshak, Lovech Province, ...
was born there on October 29, 1914, and was buried there after his death in November 2012.
Villages in Lovech Province
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