Katunets is a Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n village in the Municipality of Ugarchin

Ugarchin

Ugarchin is a town located along the Kamenitsa river in the Lovech Province in central northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Ugarchin Municipality. The town is about 30 kilometers away in the west from the main centre of the province - Lovech...

, northern Bulgaria

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. The village is situated near the towns of Lovech

Lovech

Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of 36,296 as of February 2011. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The town is located about 150 km northeast from the capital city of Sofia...

 and Pleven

Pleven

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. The 43,5 km long Katuneshka river flows through the village.

History

The first document mentioning Katunets is from the Turkish registries in 1840. According the newspaper "Stremlenie" from 25 February 1912 the population of the village was around 2 750 people at the time. Katunets has soldiers from the Balkan War, the First World War and the second World war

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. The village school opened its doors for the first time in 1914. A book about the village - "Katunets, small encyclopedia" was released by Vutzo Bobenski and Petar Bobenski.

Famous people

• Veselin Toetev Belomazhov — Bulgarian ambassador to Denmark
  Denmark
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  from 2 February 1973 to 1 January 1977.