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Lakatnik

(Лакатник or alternatively Лъкатник) is a village in the Iskar gorge, stara planina mountains Bulgaria. The name probably comes from the old slavic word Lâka (Лъка) meaning a bend in a river. Like several villages on the Iskar gorge, Lakatnik has two centers: Lakatnik station sits at the bottom of the deepest part of the Iskar gorge, but the village proper is on the plateau overlooking the gorge. After Lakatnik, the river veers east to Mezdra. To the south is the village of Bov