Kostinbrod

Kostinbrod ( Bulgarian Костинброд ) is a town in western Bulgaria. The city is the administrative center of the homonymous municipality in the Sofia Province. Kostinbrod located in the western part of the Sofiaebene on the European road 80, about 10 km north-west of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Nearby are the towns Sliwniza and Dragoman.

The place has been known since ancient times for its mineral springs. South of Kostinbrod was strategically important Roman road Via Militaris (also called Via Diagonalis ). Here the post -way station Scretiska was built ( Bulg Скретиска ), which supplied the nearby villa of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. The road led by Konstantin Opel over Serdica (now Sofia ) to Naissus. Later the Byzantine fortress Kratiskara was built here.

In the immediate vicinity of the city, the monastery is Schijakowzi ( Bulg Шияковския манастир ) in which Vasil Levski founded a revolutionary committee. Socialist times, in the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Kostinbrod should be developed into a large city. Therefore, the small village Kostinbrod was merged with the villages Schijakowzi and Maslowo and relocated the population of the mountain villages in the new city Kostinbrod.

Community structure

The municipality Kostinbrod divided as follows:

• Besden
• Beledia han
• Bogjowzi
• Butschin prohod
• Dragowischtiza
• Drenewo
• Dramscha

• Goljanowzi
• Gradez
• Opizwet
• Petartsch
• Ponor
• Zaritschina
• Tschibaowzi