Delyan (Breznik)

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Delyan (Bulgarian: Делян) is a village in the Sofia Province, western Bulgaria, near the town of Breznik. As of 2007 the village has only 18 permanent inhabitants. Delyan is located in the municipality of Bozhurishte. It is named after the leader of the Bulgarian uprising against the Byzantine Empire (1040-1041) and for a short time Tsar (Emperor) of Bulgaria, Peter II Delyan. The village is situated in a mountainous area of the Viskyar Mountain at an elevation of 802 m. Administratively, the village is connected to the nearby village Zlatusha to which there is a tarmac road, built in early 1970s. It is close to that railroad Pernik-Voluyak. However, it is on the border between Sofia Province and Pernik Province, and Dogandjia ["Falconer"], a remote neighborhood of Delyan is in the Breznik Municipality. To the south-west of Delyan, in the locality Ormana, there is a pine forest, planted in the late 1960s. During favorable seasons, one can find there edible mushrooms, like saffron milk cap (Lactarius deliciosus) and sticky bun (Suillus luteus). Delyan is the birth place of the writer Spas Antonov.