The village of Koprivlen is located at the foot of the eastern slopes of the Pirin mountains, in the southwestern part of the Republic of Bulgaria, 7 km south of the town of Gotse Delchev.

Near the village are preserved the remains of a fortress of rather large size, as well as a cult building known to the local population as the "Monastery of St. George".

This is judged by a church building west of the village and ancient coins of Bulgarian and Byzantine origin, statuettes, remains of pottery and others.

A list from 1666 for the tax paid to the Ottoman empire by the Christian population shows that Koprivlen has 23 families.

In the "Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki", published in Istanbul in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population from 1873, Koprivlian is listed as a village with 50 households with 60 Muslims and 80 Bulgarians.

[1] In 1889, Stefan Verkovic (Topographic and Ethnographic Essay of Macedonia) noted Koprivljan as a village with 22 Bulgarian and 28 Turkish houses.

Statistical data from the period after the liberation of the Pirin region show that Koprivlen is among those settlements whose inhabitants are constantly growing.

The Village is situated on the international secondary road № 19 between Gotse Delchev to Serres in Greece.

There are busses, connecting the village with Hadzhidimovo, Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad and Sofia.

In 1918 an elementary school was founded in a small building, which until then had served as a cafe and two classrooms were established.

In the nearly 100 years of development of education in Koprivlen the school is withstands the turbulent political events of the twentieth century.