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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Oreshak, Lovech Province


Oreshak (Bulgarian: Орешак) is a village, situated in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains in Troyan Municipality, Lovech Province, Bulgaria. There is a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery — one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2024, the village had a population of 1,927 (2021 census). The late Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim was born in Oreshak on October 29, 1914, and was buried at Troyan Monastery after his death in November 2012.