Official Name: | Planinitsa |
Native Name: | Планиница |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Postal Code: | 2340 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Planinitsa |
Coordinates: | 42.5992°N 22.8775°W |
Elevation M: | 894 |
Blank Name Sec1: | License plate |
Blank Info Sec1: | PK |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Pushpin Map: | Bulgaria |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province (Oblast) |
Subdivision Name1: | Pernik |
Subdivision Name: | Bulgaria |
Population Total: | 17 |
Population As Of: | 2024 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone1 Dst: | EEST |
Timezone1: | EET |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality (Obshtina) |
Area Land Km2: | 3.719 |
Established Date: | 1448 |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Andrej Stoichev |
Subdivision Name2: | Pernik |
Planinitsa (Bulgarian: Планиница, also transliterated Planinica) is a village in western Bulgaria. Its located in Oblast Pernik, Obshtina Pernik.
Planinitsa is in a mountainous region, 45 km southwest of Sofia and 12 km west of Pernik.
The climate is humid continental with cool summer and average temperatures of 22 °C and soft and snowy winter with average temperatures of 1 °C.
Every first Sunday of July the village celebrates the traditional day of the village.
The name derives from the Bulgarian word Planina, which means mountain + the Slavic suffix -itsa.
The village was recorded in historical records in 1448 as Planintsi.
Late antique and medieval fortress in Gradishte, 1.16 km west of the village of Planinitsa, on the eastern slope of Cherna Gora. The fortress was built in late antiquity on an area of about 3 acres. In the past, part of the fortress walls and the separate rooms to them were preserved. It also existed in the early Middle Ages.[1]
The village shares a mayor with the neighbouring village of Leskovets, due to the small size of the village.