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Bulgarian Mountains :: Virtual - Bulgaria :: Knight International ...
The mountains in Bulgaria are extremely diverse in kind. If they lack something, it is solely the “cosmic” altitudes and the everlasting snow and ice. ...

All of them are a ring of the powerful range of the Alpine - Himalayan Massif comprising a multitude of mountainous systems on the two continents - Europe and Asia.Bulgarian MountainsThe mountains in Bulgaria are extremely diverse in kind. Approximately half of its territory is occupied by mountainous formations various in their area, height, nature and origin. Cherni Vruh - 2290 m), Osogovo Mountain (Mt. Dozens of biosphere reserves have been established and huge territories of Pirin, Rila and Stara Planina were declared National Parks. Four of the mountains are on the Bulgarian-Macedonian border, and Belasitsa is situated on the territories of 3 states - Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia. Golyam Perelik - 2191 m) and Belasitsa (Mt. Gotsev Vruh - 2212 m), the Rhodopes (Mt. If they lack something, it is solely the “cosmic” altitudes and the everlasting snow and ice. In spite of their low altitude above sea level and their small area, each of these mountains is interesting in itself. It is namely the mountain range of Stara Planina, the longest and the biggest in area, known as the Balkan Mountains, too, which gave the name to our Balkan Peninsula. Like in the Verila-Rui group, the mountains here are small in area and comparatively low. Located in the immediate proximity to the south of the capital city, it is the most visited mountain. Osogovo and Belasitsa Mountains are over 2000 metres high, and Vlahina and Malashevska Mountain, follow them closely in altitude. Pirin is the most beautiful and Alpine-like Bulgarian mountain. Slavianka and Sturgach are border Greek mountains. Slavianka is a very interesting tourist site famous for its fields of Pirin tea.Two lower mountains are situated to the east of the Rila-Rhodope Massif - Sakar and Strandzha. The fifth mountain within this group is Ograzhden. The highest of these mountains are those bordering with Serbia - Milev and Kurvav Kamuk, 1733 m and 1737 m respectively.The Osogovo-Belasitsa mountainous group is situated in the south-west corner of Bulgaria. The highest, biggest and most famous of them is the Vitosha Mountain. The most impressive mountainous system, however, is the Rila-Rhodope Massif, including Rila, Pirin, the Rhodopes, Slavianka and Sturgach.Rila is the sixth highest mountain in Europe and the highest mountain on the Balkan Peninsula (Mt. The organised hiking movement in Bulgaria was commenced on the principal mount of this range - Mt. The Ostritsa Reserve, for instance, is situated in Golo Burdo and it is extremely rich in endemic vegetation kinds.The mountainous system of Kraishte has 11 individual mountain formations. The second longest mountain range in our country is spread in parallel to it, to the south - Sredna Gora. There are a lot more natural lakes of other origin, mainly around the Rhodopes and fewer around Stara Planina. These are Rui (bordering with Serbia and the highest in the group - 1706 m), Ezdimir, Strazha, Liubash, Cherna Gora, Golo Burdo and Verila. These two mountains, except their magnificent natural endowments, are closely related to the history of our people as well. Tumba (1881 m), is a knot between the three neighbouring Balkan countries.Of all the 37 small and big mountains, 8 exceed the altitude of 2000 metres: Rila (Mt.