Elin Pelin (City)
| Elin Pelin (Елин Пелин) | |||||
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 Bulgaria
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| Oblast : | Sofia | ||||
| Residents : | 6843 (December 31, 2016) | ||||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 40 ′ N , 23 ° 36 ′ E | ||||
| Height : | 558 m | ||||
| Postal code : | 2100 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 0725 | ||||
| License plate : | CO | ||||
Elin Pelin ( Bulgarian Елин Пелин , formerly Novoselzi / Bulgar. Новоселци) is a city in western Bulgaria . The city is the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in the center of Sofia Oblast . Elin Pelin is located in the Sofia plain about 24 km southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia . In the north the city borders on the southern slopes of the Balkan Mountains and in the southeast on the Sredna Gora Mountains .
Today the city bears the name of the writer Elin Pelin .
A number of Thracian , Roman and Byzantine ruins and finds from the area around Elin Pelin testify to settlement since ancient times. A Slavic settlement that was founded in the Middle Ages during the Bulgarian Empire and existed until the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule was also discovered.
Community structure
The municipality of Elin Pelin is divided as follows:
