Slatino ( bg, Слатино) is a village in

Boboshevo Municipality Boboshevo Municipality is a municipality in Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria. The administrative centre is Boboshevo Boboshevo ( bg, Бобошево ) is a town in Western Bulgaria. It is located in Kyustendil Province and is close to the towns of ...

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 populati ...

, south-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 ...

. As of 2013 it has 417 inhabitants. The villages is situated in the valley of the river Dzherman near the western foothills of the

Rila Rila ( bg, Рила, ) is the highest mountain range of Bulgaria, the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula and Southeast Europe. It is situated in southwestern Bulgaria and forms part of the Rila–Rhodope Mountains, Rhodope Massif. The highest summit is Mus ...

mountain range. The Slatino furnace model, an ancient ceramic artefact, was excavated at an archeological site near Slatino in the remains of a dwelling dated from the Eneolithic period (ca. 5000 BCE). In the Middle Ages the village was part of the

Bulgarian Empire In the medieval history of Europe, Bulgaria's status as the Bulgarian Empire ( bg, Българско царство, ''Balgarsko tsarstvo'' ) occurred in two distinct periods: between the seventh and the eleventh centuries and again between the ...

. In the 14th century Rila Charter of Emperor

Ivan Shishman Ivan Shishman ( bg, Иван Шишман) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 June 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. In the wake of the death of Ivan Alexan ...

(r. 1371–1395) the surrounding lands were listed as a possession of the

Rila Monastery The Monastery of Saint John of Rila, also known as Rila Monastery "Sveti Ivan Rilski" ( bg, Рилски манастир „Свети Иван Рилски“), is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situat ...

Gallery

File:Поглед към Рила.jpg, A view to Rila from Slatino File:Църквата "Св. Покров Богородичен".JPG, The church File:Панорама 1984г..jpg, A view of the village in 1984

Citations

Villages in Kyustendil Province {{Kyustendil-geo-stub