Oreshak

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Oreshak (Орешак) is a village, situated in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains in the municipality of Troyan, Lovech Province, Bulgaria. It is also a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery — one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2005, it had a population of 2,111 and is located at 42°53′N, 24°46′E.
The incumbent Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim was born there on October 29, 1914