Country Bulgaria Municipality Rila Postal Code 2630 Population 3,044 (2008) Area code 07054 | Province (Oblast) Kyustendil Time zone EET (UTC+2) Elevation 593 m Local time Thursday 1:05 PM | |
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Weather 18°C, Wind N at 14 km/h, 35% Humidity | ||
Rila (Bulgarian: Рила, pronounced [ˈrilə]) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, in Rila Municipality, part of Kyustendil Province. It is the administrative centre of Rila municipality, which lies in the southeastern part of Kyustendil Province.
Map of 2630 Rila, Bulgaria
The town lies in a mountainous region at the foot of the southwestern Rila Mountains, 20 km (12 mi) from the Rila Monastery, 34 km (21 mi) from Dupnitsa and 65 km (40 mi) from Kyustendil. In antiquity, the area was inhabited by the Greeks and Romans; it was known as Sportela and then as Roligera. In the 14th century, the village was a feudatory possession of the Rila Monastery and may have been mentioned in Tsar Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria's Rila Charter as Driska. Later on, it was mentioned as İrlie in Ottoman tax registers of 1576.