It is located in the mountain of Cherna gora, about 2 km west of Mount Tumba 1129 meters.

In antiquity the region was inhabited by various tribes, whose main livelihoods were cattle breeding and mining.

The Byzantine troops defeated the Pechenegs and their Berendei tribe settled around today's Sofia, they were baptized in Orthodoxy and joined the local Bulgarians.

After the Ottoman invasion in the 14th century, the population of the surrounding plains retreated to the mountains, where they enjoyed significantly less pressure from the enslavers.

After the Liberation of Bulgaria began the gradual emigration of people to more flat places, where there is free agricultural land and to the cities, which attract with work in industry and administration and new housing.