Official Name: | Pesochnitsa |
Native Name: | Песочница |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Label Position: | Location in Bulgaria |
Subdivision Name: | Bulgaria |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Montana Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Berkovitsa |
Leader Name: | Vasko Marinov |
Population Total: | 65 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 43.2528°N 23.2047°W |
Elevation M: | 474 |
Area Code: | 3519 |
Pesochnitsa is a village in Berkovitsa Municipality, Montana Province, north-western Bulgaria.[1]
Pesochnica is located between hills on the banks of a creek called the Pescaitsa. The summers are cool and tranquil, the winters are generally mild. The hills to the south, east and west are covered with different types of hardwood.
Pesochnica has existed since at least the time of the Ottoman Empire invasion and occupation of Bulgaria in the late fourteenth century, and there is some evidence that its existence dates to the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 to 1396). Turkish tax documents from the end of the fifteenth century indicate that the inhabitants of Pesochnica had been paying taxes at that time.