Kovachevtsi, Pernik Province

Kovachevtsi (Bulgarian: Ковачевци, pronounced [koˈvat͡ʃɛft͡si]; also transliterated Kovačevci) is a village in western Bulgaria, part of Pernik Province.

The village was first mentioned in Ottoman tax registers of 1576 as Kovachovcha; later on, its continuous existence was confirmed by western travelers such as Ami Boué and Felix Philipp Kanitz.

Thick walls of crushed stone with mortar solder were discovered on an area of about 20 decares during the cultivation of the land.

The proximity of the two sites - the ancient necropolis and the villa in the Padina neighborhood, as well as their common features, reveal their connections and say that they were used simultaneously.

The old people say that during the Ottoman rule a large part of the village and the properties around it were owned by a rich Bulgarian blacksmith.

A notable native is Bulgarian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949), whose parents were refugees from the Pirin region, which was left under Ottoman rule until the Balkan Wars.