Vitoschko

Witoschko ( Bulgarian Витошко ) is a former village in the church today Pernik of Pernik Province .

It is located at the foot of the Vitosha Mountains in Bulgaria . In 1953 the area around Vitoschko up to the village was flooded for the artificial reservoir Studena . Instead of lying under the reservoir, the water reaches as far as the ruins of the former village, where a holiday center for the communist party was built.

Until 1887 the village was named Srabski Samokow (Сръбски Самоков), translated roughly Serbian Samokow , which is written in 1455, here Srabski Samokow (Сръбски Самоков), and from the year 1878, here Syrbski Samakowa (Срмсков .

Web links

• History of the Studena Reservoir (in Bulgarian)

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• А. М. Чолева-Димитрова: Селищни имена от Югозападна България: Изследване . Pensoft Publishers, 2002, ISBN 954-642-168-5 , pp. 170 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Etymology).

Coordinates: 42 ° 32 '  N , 23 ° 9'  E