Narechen
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Narechen is a village in the Plovdiv Province
Plovdiv Province
Plovdiv Province is a province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities on a territory of 5,972.9 km² with a total population, as of December 2009, of 701,684 inhabitants...

, central 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 has 924 inhabitants. It is set amid pine forest on the Assenitsa river in the Rhodopean mountain. The village is notable for its hypothermal mineral springs which have transformed it into an important spa resort.

Narechen Glacier
Narechen Glacier
Narechen Glacier is the 9 km long and 11 km wide glacier draining the western slopes of Lassus Mountains on Alexander Island in Antarctica. Flowing westwards to enter Lazarev Bay in Bellingshausen Sea south of the southwestern ridge of Mount Wilbye and north of Faulkner Nunatak.The glacier is...

 on Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

 in Antarctica is named after Narechen.
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