Official Name: | Chelopek |
Native Name: | Челопек |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Provinces (Oblast) |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Pushpin Map: | Bulgaria |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Chelopek |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Subdivision Name1: | Vratsa Province |
Population Total: | 550 |
Population Footnotes: | http://grao.bg/tna/tab02.txt |
Population As Of: | 2008 |
Elevation M: | 469 |
Postal Code: | 3093 |
Area Code: | 09111 |
Coordinates: | 43.1333°N 60°W |
Leader Name: | Borislav Manchev |
Chelopek (bg|Челопек) is a village in Vratsa Municipality, Vratsa Province in northwestern Bulgaria. Located in the western Balkan Mountains, it is known as the home village of Ivan Vazov's heroine Baba Iliytsa from the tale One Bulgarian Woman. Her original timbed-framed house has been reconstructed and is currently a museum of her life and local history and ethnography.