Oreshak

42°53′N 24°46′E / 42.883°N 24.767°E / 42.883; 24.767 Oreshak (Bulgarian: 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 — one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria. In 2005, the village had a population of 2,306 (2007). The incumbent Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim was born there on October 29, 1914.