named Perin + the Slavic placename suffix -nik (or -ik) added, and was first mentioned in the 9th century.

Geography

Pernik is the second largest town in western Bulgaria. The town is located in the Pernik Valley. part of the ethnographic region of Graovo, at an altitude between 700 and 850 m, length of 22 km 0 abbr=off and is surrounded by mountains Vitosha, Lyulin and Golo Bardo. Through the city flows the river Struma, which rises from Cherni Vrah - one of the

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