Treklyano ( bg, Трекляно, ; also transliterated ''Trekljano'' or ''Trekliano'') is a village in southwestern

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, part 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 ...

. It is the administrative centre of

Treklyano Municipality Treklyano Municipality ( bg, Община Трекляно, trl ''Obština Trekljano'') is a municipality in Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a count ...

, which lies in the northwestern part of Kyustendil Province. The village is located in the Kraishte area, very close to the

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n border and not far from the

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border. It is situated 40 kilometres north of the provincial capital of

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, 39 kilometres south of Tran and 100 kilometres west of the capital

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. Treklyano lies in an isolated valley at the foot of the 1,733-metre Milevets peak in the border mountain of Milevska Planina. The Treklyano River, which runs through the village, flows into the

Struma River The Struma or Strymónas ( bg, Струма ; el, Στρυμόνας ; tr, (Struma) Karasu , 'black water') is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. Its ancient name was Strymṓn (Greek: Στρυμών ). Its drainage area is , of which in Bulgaria, ...

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. The first reference to the village is in an early 15th-century Bulgarian text: ѠТ СЄЛО ТРИКЛИНО. It was also mentioned in Ottoman tax registers of 1570-1572 as ''Predoshnitsa'' or ''Preglino'' and a few years later, in 1576–1577, it was listed as ''Terklyane''. According to

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, the old village name was ''Tri Klena'' ("Three maple trees"), as there was an area near the village where three

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trees were located. Linguists suggest a derivation from ''*traklo'', itself from ''trak'' ("tie, belt") or from

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τρί-κλινος, "three-bedded", referring to

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s. There is an area near the village where two rivers merge to make up a third one, i.e. forming three beds. During the

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, the village has been abandoned and reestablished several times. There was an influx of settlers during the

First Serbian Uprising The First Serbian Uprising ( sr, Prvi srpski ustanak, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; tr, Birinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 18 ...

of 1804, the

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of 1815-1817 and after the newly liberated

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included some then-Bulgarian-populated areas in 1831–1833. The first school in the village was a monastery school founded in 1853, while a secular school was opened 10 years later. A new

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church dedicated to the

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was built in 1860 at the place of an older church. After the

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, Treklyano grew rapidly: at its peak it had up to 800 houses and a population of around 4,000. A community centre (''

chitalishte A ''chitalishte'' (, . Derives from the verb "чета" - "to read" or "читател" - "reader") is a typical Bulgarian public institution and building that fulfills several functions at once, such as a community centre, library, and a theat ...

'') was established in 1901.

Municipality

Treklyano municipality includes the following 19 places: In the municipality, 1,111 people were registered in 2007, in the town there was 370 people.

Honour

Treklyano Island Treklyano Island ( bg, остров Трекляно, ostrov Treklyano, ) is an island off the northeast coast of Robert Island, South Shetland Islands Extending , with a low rocky formation projecting northeastwards, the island emerged as a di ...

off

Robert Island Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island long and wide, situated between Nelson Island and Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Robert Island is located at . Surface area . T ...

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

is named after Treklyano.

References

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