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8-939: The municipality is located mainly in the Sofia Valley , and also in the foots and lower parts of the mountains of Stara planina and Vitosha , Plana , Lozen , Rila . As of 2016, it was home to 1,500,927 inhabitants, of which 1,400 million live in Sofia. Sofia Capital Municipality includes the following 38 places (cities are shown in bold): Balsha , Bankya , Bistritsa , Buhovo , Busmantsi , Chepintsi , Dobroslavtsi , Dolni Bogrov , Dolni Pasarel , German , Gorni Bogrov , Ivanyane , Jeleznitsa , Jelyava , Jiten , Kazichene , Klisura , Kokalyane , Krivina , Kubratovo , Katina , Lokorsko , Lozen , Malo Buchino , Marchaevo , Mirovyane , Mramor , Negovan , Novi Iskar , Pancharevo , Plana , Podgumer , Sofia , Svetovrachene , Vladaya , Voluyak , Voynegovtsi , Yana According to

16-474: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gorna Banya Gorna Banya ( Bulgarian : Горна баня ) is a neighbourhood in Sofia , the capital city of Bulgaria . It is one of the city's oldest villa zones. The town is part of Sofia's Ovcha Kupel (Bulgarian: Овча купел) administrative district. It is located in the southwestern part of the capital and borders Knyazhevo to the south and Ovcha Kupel to

24-591: Is a valley in central western Bulgaria bordering Stara Planina to the northeast, the Viskyar , Lyulin , Vitosha and Lozen mountains to the southwest, the Vakarel Mountain to the southeast and the low Slivnitsa Heights to the northwest. After the valley's bottom was formed, the stream of the Iskar River was blocked and the whole valley became a lake, causing the gritty and clay-like soils that now cover most of

32-485: The latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition , among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: 42°41′51″N 23°19′25″E  /  42.6976°N 23.3236°E  / 42.6976; 23.3236 Sofia Valley The Sofia Valley ( Bulgarian : Софийска котловина , romanized :  Sofiyska kotlovina ), or Sofia Field (Bulgarian: Софийско поле , romanized:  Sofiysko pole ),

40-646: The northeast. It is known for its mineral waters and has the cleanest air in Sofia due to the unique interaction between air currents from the Vladaysko Gorge, the Buchinski Pass, and the Slivnishko Pole, which are located in the Slivnitsa Field. This interaction provides constant ventilation and prevents the retention of fog. According to a local legend, the village was once desolate, but restored after

48-583: The valley. The lake ceased to exist when the river drove through the Stara Planina, forming the Iskar Gorge . The Sofia Valley is rich in mineral springs such as Gorna Banya , Pancharevo and Bankya , which are, together with the valley's predisposal to seismic activity, the result of its fault character. 42°47′N 23°16′E  /  42.783°N 23.267°E  / 42.783; 23.267 This Sofia Province , Bulgaria location article

56-436: The waters of the local mineral springs healed a hunting dog from the valley of Sofia. At the beginning of the 17th century, The area was governed by Sultan Selim II 's daughter, Shah Sultan. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, a group of thirty-four families lived in the rural municipality. Much of the upkeep of the mineral spring was overseen by these families. Use of the forest and other land, including for cattle grazing,

64-630: Was overseen by the Bozhkov family. On April 11, 1938, Gorna Banya became a district of Sofia and the population grew to 3100 people. The 9th Tank Brigade of the Bulgarian Land Forces was stationed in Gorna Banya for many years. According to retired colonel Yanko Roshkev, who commanded the brigade in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it had a total of 182 tanks in three tank battalions. Each of these possessed its own tank company of ten MBTs each, plus

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