Karlievo is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in western Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. It is located in the municipality of Zlatitsa

Zlatitsa

Zlatitsa is a town in southern Bulgaria located in the Zlatitsa-Pirdop valley, between Stara Planina to the north and Sredna Gora to the south at 680 meters above the sea level. It is situated immediately south in the lap of the Zlatitsa -Teteven Mountain...

, Sofia Province

Sofia Province

Sofia Province is a province of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia however remains its administrative center...

. As of 2007 the village has 245 inhabitants.

Geography

Karlievo is situated in a mountainous region in the Sredna Gora

Sredna Gora

Sredna Gora is a mountain range in central Bulgaria, situated south of and parallel to Balkan mountain range and extending from the river Iskar to the west and the elbow of Tundzha north of Yambol to the east. Sredna Gora is 285 km long, reaching 50 km at its greatest width...

 mountains. The nearest village is Chelopech

Chelopech

Chelopech is a village in the western part of Bulgaria. It is the only village in the Chelopech Municipality, Sofia Province.- Geographical outline :...

 at 2 km to the west. Most of the population is employed in the large copper and gold mines in the surrounding region or in Cumerio Med

Cumerio Med

Cumerio Med is Bulgaria's largest copper smelting company producing around 240,000 tonnes of smelted copper and around 60,000 tonnes of copper cathodes each year. In 1997 the company was sold to Cumerio a company from Belgium for US$ 80 million but in 2007 the company was bought by German company...

 between Zlatitsa and Pirdop

Pirdop

Pirdop is a town located in South-West Bulgaria of Sofia Province in the southeastern part of the Zlatitsa - Pirdop Valley at 670 m above sea level. It is surrounded by the Balkan Range to the north, Sredna Gora Mountain to the south, and Koznitsa and Galabets saddles to the east and west,...

 - the largest copper smelter and refinery in the Balkan peninsula.