Krasen or Krasen Kale is a 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...

n fortress near the village of Bata

Bata, Pazardzhik Province

Bata is a village in the Panagyurishte municipality in western Bulgaria. It has 1 345 inhabitants.- Geography :Bata is located in a mountainous region. The village lies in the Sredna Gora mountain, in the Bata-Banya valley. The river Banska Luda Yana runs through the village and flows in the...

 in the Pazardzhik Province

Pazardzhik Province

Pazardzhik Province is a province in Southern Bulgaria, named after its administrative and industrial centre - the town of Pazardzhik. It embraces a territory of 4,456.9 km² that is divided into 11 municipalities with a total population of 290,614 inhabitants, as of December 2009.-History:The...

. It is situated at around 3 km of the village and 6 km to the south of the municipal center Panagyurishte

Panagyurishte

Panagyurishte is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. It is 91 km east of Sofia, 43 km north of Pazardzhik, and 37 km south of Zlatitsa. The town is the administrative centre of the homonymous Panagyurishte...

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The castle has been dated to the 10th century AD and is currently in ruins. The remains of the walls reach up to six meters.

Krasen Family
Krasen is also the last name of an Americanized version of Polish ancestry "Krasinski".

External links

• Fortress - Krasen Kale