Trite Chuki (, "the three outcrops") or Tri Čuke () is a rocky summit in the western
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range is located in the eastern part of the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border between Bulgaria and Serbia. It then runs f ...
, on the border ridge between Bulgaria and Serbia. Trite Chuki is high and belongs to the
Chiprovtsi Mountain, one of the highest parts of the Balkan Mountains.
The summit's name references its three-headed shape composed by rocky outcrops. Trite Chuki's northeast slopes are very steep and almost vertical. The valleys of the Androvitsa and Grafska rivers originate east of Trite Chuki; the latter feeds the Lanzhin Skok, Voden Skok and Durshin Skok waterfalls. The large Chiprovtsi Waterfall originates to the north of the peak.
[Цветанов, p. 275]
The middle outcrop hosts the remains of a basic fortification, reportedly built by
Angel Voyvoda and
Panayot Hitov
Panayot Ivanov Hitov () (November 11, 1830 – February 22, 1918) was a Bulgarian ''haidoutin (hajduk)'', national revolutionary and voivoda.
Born in 1830 in Sliven (known as İslimiye at the time), he became a haidoutin in Georgi Trankin's band ...
in August 1863.
The most common trailheads for ascending Trite Chuki are
Kopilovtsi and Chiprovtsi in Bulgaria
and
Topli Do and
Dojkinci in Serbia.
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Mountains of the Balkan mountains
Bulgaria–Serbia border
International mountains of Europe
Landforms of Montana Province