Pernik

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Pernik is a province in western Bulgaria, neighbouring Serbia. The main city of the province is Pernik. The town is situated in a pictureque hollow. The total area of the hollow field is about 157 sqkm , it is 22 km long, extending in the southeast- northwest direction. Its narrowest part is about 4 km long. The hollow is surrounded by the mountains of Golo Burdo, on the south, Vitosha, on the east and Liulin, on the north-east. Pernik is situated along the upper reaches of the river Struma. Its source is to the south of the highest pak in the Vitosha mountain, Cherni Vruh, and it is one of the longest rivers in the country, its total length being 290 km. The climate of the region is temperature-continental - the spring comes late and the autumn comes early, the summer is not hot. The soils are the mostly black clay and alluvial-meadow. The soils of the mountainsides are light-brown forest and the ones of the mountain ridges are mountain-meadow. The first record of settlement life in the Pernik region dates back to the year of 6000 BC ( the early Neolithic ). The town has ancient history – later this was land of Tracian tribes. Industry is of basic importance for the economy of the province. The town is the major manufacturing centre, one of the largest in the country with the "Stomana" steel complex; heavy machinery (mining and industrial equipment); building materials and textiles being the most important. There is an enormous plant for heavy machinery in Radomir which produces excavators and industrial equipment.