Troyan Municipality ( Bulgarian : Община Троян ) is a municipality ( obshtina ) in Lovech Province , Central-North Bulgaria , located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan . It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Troyan .
5-534: The municipality embraces a territory of 888.85 km (343.19 sq mi) with a population of 33,827 inhabitants, as of December 2009. The area is best known with the Troyan Monastery - the third biggest in Bulgaria, and the north approach to Beklemeto Pass , also known as Troyan Pass, which is one of the connections between the north and south parts of the country. Troyan Municipality includes
10-549: A village 10 km from Troyan in Lovech Province , and is a popular tourist destination. The main church of the monastery was reconstructed near the end of Ottoman rule during the Bulgarian National Revival period by a master-builder called Konstantin in 1835. The ornate interior and exterior of the church were painted between 1847 and 1849 by Zahari Zograph , a popular Bulgarian painter of
15-726: The Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God ( Bulgarian : Троянски манастир „Успение Богородично“ ) or, as it is more commonly called, the Troyan Monastery is the third largest monastery in Bulgaria . It is located in the northern part of the country in the Balkan Mountains and was founded no later than the end of the 16th century. The monastery is situated on the banks of the Cherni Osam near Oreshak ,
20-470: The following 22 places (towns are shown in bold): The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Troyan Monastery 42°51′45″N 24°46′50″E / 42.86250°N 24.78056°E / 42.86250; 24.78056 The Monastery of
25-515: The time, who also painted the central church of the Rila Monastery , the largest monastery in Bulgaria. Many of the "moral and social experiments " of art at the time such as Doomsday and Wheel of Life were reproduced at Troyan. One highly controversial move by Zograph was to paint his image around one of the windows in the back of the church. The iconostasis in the central church is a wood carving dating to 1839. The Troyan Monastery
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