Oreshak, Lovech Province

Oreshak (Орешак) is a village, situated in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains in Troyan Municipality, Lovech Province, Bulgaria. There is a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery &mdash; one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2024, the village had a population of 1,927 (2021 census). The late Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim was born in Oreshak on October 29, 1914, and was buried at Troyan Monastery after his death in November 2012.