German ( ) is a village in central western
Bulgaria
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, part of Sofia Capital Municipality. It lies at the foot of the Lozen Mountains, at , 639 metres above sea level. As of 2015, it has a population of 2,500 and the mayor is Margarita Stankova.
German is the site of the German Monastery of Saint
John of Rila
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, allegedly founded in the 10th century and then abandoned and reconstructed several times. It features a church from 1885 with frescoes from 1886 by
Samokov
Samokov ( ) List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, is a town in Sofia Province in the southwest of Bulgaria. It is situated in Samokov Valley between the mountain ranges of Rila, Vitosha and Sredna Gora, 55 kilometres from the capital Sofia. Due ...
masters. Since 1928, it is property of the Bulgarian
Zograf Monastery on
Mount Athos
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The mountain and most of the Athos peninsula are governed ...
.
Until June 2006, German had a relatively successful football team, PFC Conegliano German, who achieved promotion to the
A PFG
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, the highest division of Bulgarian football. However, after they were promoted, they changed ownership. They left the town and were renamed
PFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia.
The name of the village comes from
Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, not the country or people of Germany.
This village is not to be confused with the smaller village of Dzherman (Джерман - pronounced "Jerman") near Dupnitsa in
Kyustendil Province.
German Peninsula on
Fallières Coast in
Antarctica
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is named after the neighborhood.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Notes
Villages in Sofia City Province
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